Topic: Swaziland
About 3,000 Swazi teachers marched to the South African and US embassies here Wednesday to appeal for an international asset freeze against King Mswati III, Africa's last absolute monarch."We appeal to you to identify and freeze assets owned by the ruling elite ...
Bahrain's crown prince on Sunday turned down a controversial invitation to the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton because of ongoing unrest in the Gulf kingdom.Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa had previously confirmed his attendance, fuelling criticism of the ...
US rapper Jadakiss gave a concert linked to the embattled royal family early Sunday, performing in a nearly empty hall in Swaziland's main city Manzini following an opposition boycott call.The event, billed as a fundraiser for a charity bearing the name of ...
Swaziland?s King Mswati III called for his people to "work harder and sacrifice more", instead of protesting against the country's economic downturn, state media said on Saturday.Thousands of public workers marched through the capital Friday after reports the government was planning to ...
King Mswati III, with much power shared by his mother, Queen Mother Ntombi Latfwala Head of government: Prime Minister Absalom Themba Dlamini . Most of the year was spent trying to reach the rural Swazi population in accordance with a resolution made ...
King Mswati III, with much power shared by his mother, Queen Mother Ntombi Latfwala Head of government: On July 26, 2005, King Mswati III signed a new constitution for Swaziland, nine years after he had appointed a Constitution Review Commission. Swaziland had ...
): Mbabane (administrative and judicial); Lozitha and Ludzidzini (royal); Lobamba (legislative) Chief of state: King Mswati III, with much power shared by his mother, Queen Mother Ntombi Latfwala Head of government: Although the U.S. African Growth and Opportunity Act had helped Swaziland ...
King Mswati III, with much power shared by his mother, Queen Mother Ntombi Latfwala Head of government: The year 2000 began with a scandal when the speaker of the Swaziland parliament stole cow dung from the royal kraal at Ludzidzini in the ...
King Mswati III, with much power shared by his mother, Queen Mother Ntombi Latfwala Head of government: Sibusiso Barnabas Dlamini . Swaziland in 1999 saw continuing delay in the work of the Constitutional Review Commission. Two offices of Swaziland's unique tinkhundla (grass ...
King Mswati III, assisted by Prime Ministers Absalom Themba Dlamini, Bheki Dlamini (acting) from September 18, and, from October 23, Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini . Poverty, hunger, unemployment, the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and political uncertainty remained the major challenges in Swaziland in 2008. In ...