Eswatini has signed a $300 million agreement with Taiwan to build a massive strategic oil reserve but the project is raising difficult questions in a country battling deepening…
Recently, a proposed amendment announced by the Tshiamiso Trust — set up to disburse compensation — now threatens to shut out even more former mine-workers with the disease from…
The Communists don’t feature as a force of any kind in opinion polls and when it has tried its luck in local by-elections it has been routed, at times struggling to get even a…
If we are to honour our freedom, we must also stand in sympathy with our neighbours, whose struggles remind us that democracy is never guaranteed. Their pain must be felt as our…
The call for freedom of expression, including LGBTIQ+ rights, is a fundamental human right vital for safety and dignity
Like many of our struggle heroes, the many years he spent serving prison terms denied him a stable family life. This left his wife Cynthia, to raise their children largely alone…
One in every five girls across sub-Saharan Africa has experienced rape or sexual assault before turning 18
The same structural failures that sustain the HIV epidemic also sustain tuberculosis
HIV prevention services have been heavily affected by the pause on the US President’s Emergency Plan for Aids in the country, with remote mobile clinics that served hard-to-reach…
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From eSwatini to Johannesburg, poets are finding new voices through travel, collaboration and the transformative power of cultural exchange
The country’s revival of the Sedition and Subversion Act is a revival of a colonial law that stifles human rights.
As Swaziland descends deeper into dictatorship, the monarch’s influence is spreading, and his alliance with Jacob Zuma threatens the region’s democratic future
air and timely access to justice is enshrined in the African Charter, yet many spend years behind bars, their cases in limbo or never brought before a court.
Country that ‘achieved the impossible’ in reducing deaths to zero now faces closure of key treatment centre
The absolute monarchy has been declared ‘not free’ after it scored 17 out of 100 in the Freedom in the World 2024 report
Africans need to be fully involved in drug discovery and development research for tuberculosis on the continent
South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Angola, Zambia, Malawi and Eswatini were singled out as countries of crucial concern
In eSwatini, half a million registered voters choose 59 MPs, who advise the king while he retains veto rights
The polls take place in a country that has remained firmly in King Mswati III’s grip for nearly four decades
