The original version of this post was written by Brian Hioe and published in New Bloom on November 2, 2023. The following edited version is published on Global Voices under a content partnership ...

SWAZILAND: Swaziland stands alone with the world's highest rate of HIV infection after nearby Botswana made headway against the deadly pandemic, the United Nations special envoy on AIDS, Mr Stephen ...

Swaziland could be heading for the lowest election turnout in its modern history on Friday (21 September 2018). Swaziland (recently renamed Eswatini by King Mswati III) is ruled by an absolute monarch ...

The Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) in Swaziland (recently renamed Eswatini) is deliberately misleading voters into believing they are voting for a government when they are not. It is ...

Rachel Evans spoke to Luna Michaels from Friends of Swazi Freedom, an international activist group working in solidarity with the people of Swaziland, about the struggle for democracy and an end to ...

Swaziland is a backwards country and one with large wealth disparity, leaving the masses extremely poor. HIV/AIDS is a leading cause of death. Reuters The government of Swaziland, a small landlocked ...

I have just emerged from a sobering encounter with Swazi activists. Had I not been Zimbabwean, it would have been incomprehensible how a man claiming to be an “anointed” leader of his people can be so ...

As they walked away from the rubble of their destroyed homes, the people of KaShali could see in the distance the newest lavish palace of the man who ordered the demolitions: the King of Swaziland.

The king of Swaziland has announced a five-year ban on sex for young people. He hopes to stem the spread of HIV and AIDS among his subjects. Girls in rural and urban parts of the tiny mountain kingdom ...

Ghanaian singer and songwriter Eldah Naa Abiana Dickson, known by her stage name Abiana, has narrated how her music was easily accepted by people in Swaziland but it's a different story in Ghana.