Africa Eswatini A national court in Africa's last absolute monarchy - where homosexuality is still banned - has rejected an attempt by the country's leading LGBTQ rights group to gain official recognition
Africa Eswatini The country's new flag carrier, Eswatini Air, will fly from the national capital of Mbabane to cities in South Africa, including Johannesburg and Cape Town
Africa Eswatini The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) has said it will send a team of observers to Eswatini to verify the human rights situation of two lawmakers from the kingdom who were arrested nine months ago on terrorism charges
Africa Eswatini To help women cope with prolonged drought and erratic rainfall, the Swaziland Rural Women Assembly has undertaken a community project to encourage the use of indigenous seeds as a way to adapt to the challenges of climate change
Africa Eswatini According to local sources, the bus donated to the Eswatini Football Association in 2010 after the World Cup was bombed by arsonists in Mbabane as political parties continue to call for democratic reforms in the region
Africa Eswatini Africa's fourth largest sugar producer -the world's 25th -, the country has sugar as its main export product and accounts for more than half of the country's agricultural output
Africa Eswatini Committed to prioritising food security and self-sufficiency through increasing agricultural productivity per area, diversifying crops and commercialising smallholder agriculture, the government released a variety of orange-fleshed sweet potatoes
Africa Eswatini Eswatini Electric Co. is weighing a plan to build an infrastructure that would use gas from neighboring Mozambique to generate electricity
Africa Eswatini Médecins Sans Frontières is supporting through mobile vaccination sites the Ministry of Health's campaign to increase vaccination coverage in the Shiselweni region, an area with vulnerable people in remote communities far from health facilities
Africa Eswatini Eswatini has been listed among the countries that will take part in a study and research for male contraceptive pills, as announced on the World Health Organisation website
Africa Eswatini Students gathered at the Luyengo campus of the University of Eswatini burnt the portrait of King Mswati III, amid pro-democracy demonstrations showing no sign of letting up
Africa Eswatini The country started the new year with a relatively low debt-to-GDP ratio, ranking well in the Southern African Customs Union; the figure is €26,8 billion, which is equivalent to 38,4% of GDP
Africa Eswatini A communication platform, #factsonly, has been developed, which seeks to clear up misconceptions and falsehoods about the government by informing the public through what are termed as "just facts" about government; the developers are yet to be revealed