Africa Eswatini The Eswatini Television Authority has taken a step towards broadcasting live football matches on the big screen, starting next season
Africa Eswatini In the heart of the Jilobi Forest, a biodiversity hotspot in the eastern Lubombo region, the three chiefdoms that inhabit the land, with long-standing disputes, have abandoned tensions and strains for the need to preserve shared land
Africa Eswatini STEM Sisters, a new mentoring programme, teaches coding, robotics, engineering to young girls in rural areas; according to UNICEF, only 46% of girls complete secondary education, with pregnancy and poverty as major factors
Africa Eswatini Vice chair of the Committee on Industrial Relations and Social Business Policy Eswatini highlighted concern about an economy struggling to attract investment and generate job opportunities
Africa Eswatini Queen Ntombi Tfwala warned the nation about the rise in cases of gender-based violence in Eswatini, stating that it is disturbing to hear of cases of abused women and urging men to calm down and avoid being violent
Africa Eswatini Traditional medicine, muti, is an important part of Eswatini culture; however, the growing demand has put some of kingdom's animal species at risk of extinction, with conservationists and molecular biologists working to protect the animals from poachers
Africa Eswatini Eswatini denied reports that it had offered nationality to citizens of other southern African countries to make up for the population crisis
Africa Eswatini The Eswatini Stock Exchange signed MoU with Taiwan Stock Exchange and Taiwan Carbon Solution Exchange in Taipei, a response to Taiwan's foreign policy efforts and a milestone for cooperation between the two sides' capital markets
Africa Eswatini The country became one of the first three COMESA Member States to successfully integrate their national systems with the e-Co system, a major step towards facilitating cross-border trade within COMESA
Africa Eswatini "Eswatini has skilled and competent people, but the political system has destroyed the economy and forced skilled citizens to migrate to other countries," Zweli Martin Dlamini, editor of Swaziland News, told Channel Africa
Africa Eswatini The University of Eswatini now survives on donations, due to the government's inability to fund education, including universities; the First National Bank delivered an upgraded Cyber Space offering students a stimulating opportunity
Africa Eswatini Dessislava Choumelova, EU ambassador to the country, announced and signed financial agreements with the government amounting to €27 million to support young people and women in vulnerable situations
Africa Eswatini According to the African Development Bank, in its Eswatini Economic Outlook, economic optimism prevails in the country, while the debt burden is shrinking and the debt-to-GDP ratio is expected to reach 38% in 2024