eSwatini

The students registered for the examinations in 2024 amounted to 29.635, +11,21% on 2023 data, but the national pass rate in the EPC exams declined this year by approximately 1%

Eswatini is taking concrete steps to prepare its first public radiotherapy centre to allow cancer patients to be treated in the country, according to a team of international experts appointed by the IAEA, WHO and IARC

An unprecedented record number of people were seen at this year's Incwala Main Day, held at the Royal Residence in Ludzidzini - Incwala Festival is most important cultural event in Eswatini, a ceremony that has lasted for hundreds of years

Penuel Malinga, secretary general of Eswatini's main and largest political party, visited the family of Raymond Mthembu, a University of Eswatini student who committed suicide because of delays in the payment of allowances by the government

Archaeologists claim to have discovered the oldest known evidence of intensive ochre mining anywhere in the world, at least 48.000 years ago, in Lion Cave at Ngwenya in Eswatini

The Mbabane City Council approved a 5% increase in property rates for the financial year 2025/2026, an increase that will affect about 130 properties; land rates are also set to increase slightly

The University of Eswatini has moved to increase access for students with disabilities through the establishment of a Disability Support Resource Centre

Eswatini Golf Union president Mandla Dlamini, in response to the death of veteran golfer Evart Madlopha, former principal secretary of the Ministry of Civil Service, called him "one of the best amateur golfers in the country"

A number of eSwatini MPs, supported by human rights activists, have called for an urgent review of the 1991 Game Act, a law they claim allows forest rangers to shoot and kill alleged poachers

Nomcebo Zuma, 21, daughter of South Africa's former president Zuma, has become King Mswati's new 'girlfriend'; she was among the 5.000 women and girls who danced for the king of Eswatini in annual Dance of the Reeds at Ludzidzini Royal Village in Lobamba

Staff at the King Mswati International Airport received training on how to evacuate should a bomb be discovered within the building; authorities have reassured the population it is a normal, annual procedure, no unusual dangers have been reported