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Swaziland now renamed eSwatini: King Mawati III renames Africa's last absolute monarchy
SWAZILAND
Swaziland’s King Mswati III has changed the name of the country to the Kingdom of eSwatini, a BBC journalist has tweeted.
King Mswati III has announced Swaziland
will now be known as The Kingdom of Eswatini
The monarch reportedly made the announcement during the double celebration in the southern African country. The first landmark is his 50th birthday and the country’s 50 years of independence.
The kingdom of Swaziland – officially Eswatini – is known to be one of the world’s last remaining absolute monarchies. The king who has been in charge for 32 years took over at the age 18.
He rules by decree over his subjects. King Mswati III presides over the annual Reed Dance ceremony during which occasion he chooses a new bride. The king currently has over a dozen wives.
Mswati has over the years been at the crossroad between ruling as a traditional monarch or modernising his kingdom through multi-party democracy.
Rights groups like Amnesty International, Freedom House, Human Rights Watch and Reporters Without Borders have accused him of policies that trample human rights and democracy. In August 2004, British newspaper the Daily Mirror named him as one of the world’s 10 worst dictators on a list headed by the leaders of North Korea and Myanmar.
The son of Sobhuza II, who reigned for 82 years, King Mswati III currently has 15 wives. According to official biographers, his father took 125 wives during his reign.
Nomsa Maseko
SWAZILAND
Swaziland’s King Mswati III has changed the name of the country to the Kingdom of eSwatini, a BBC journalist has tweeted.
King Mswati III has announced Swaziland
The monarch reportedly made the announcement during the double celebration in the southern African country. The first landmark is his 50th birthday and the country’s 50 years of independence.
The kingdom of Swaziland – officially Eswatini – is known to be one of the world’s last remaining absolute monarchies. The king who has been in charge for 32 years took over at the age 18.
He rules by decree over his subjects. King Mswati III presides over the annual Reed Dance ceremony during which occasion he chooses a new bride. The king currently has over a dozen wives.
Mswati has over the years been at the crossroad between ruling as a traditional monarch or modernising his kingdom through multi-party democracy.
Rights groups like Amnesty International, Freedom House, Human Rights Watch and Reporters Without Borders have accused him of policies that trample human rights and democracy. In August 2004, British newspaper the Daily Mirror named him as one of the world’s 10 worst dictators on a list headed by the leaders of North Korea and Myanmar.
The son of Sobhuza II, who reigned for 82 years, King Mswati III currently has 15 wives. According to official biographers, his father took 125 wives during his reign.
Nomsa Maseko
Swaziland now renamed eSwatini: King Mawati III renames Africa's last absolute monarchy
SWAZILAND
Swaziland’s King Mswati III has changed the name of the country to the Kingdom of eSwatini, a BBC journalist has tweeted.
King Mswati III has announced Swazilandwill now be known as The Kingdom of Eswatini
The monarch reportedly made the announcement during the double celebration in the southern African country. The first landmark is his 50th birthday and the country’s 50 years of independence.
The kingdom of Swaziland – officially Eswatini – is known to be one of the world’s last remaining absolute monarchies. The king who has been in charge for 32 years took over at the age 18.
He rules by decree over his subjects. King Mswati III presides over the annual Reed Dance ceremony during which occasion he chooses a new bride. The king currently has over a dozen wives.
Mswati has over the years been at the crossroad between ruling as a traditional monarch or modernising his kingdom through multi-party democracy.
Rights groups like Amnesty International, Freedom House, Human Rights Watch and Reporters Without Borders have accused him of policies that trample human rights and democracy. In August 2004, British newspaper the Daily Mirror named him as one of the world’s 10 worst dictators on a list headed by the leaders of North Korea and Myanmar.
The son of Sobhuza II, who reigned for 82 years, King Mswati III currently has 15 wives. According to official biographers, his father took 125 wives during his reign.
Nomsa Maseko
lol... WTF??
Ghana 'galamsey kids’: Children left behind by Chinese miners
This BBC Pidgin documentary about Chinese miners who fathered children with local women while working and living in Ghana cracks open a problem that has escaped the illegal mining discourse.
Since 2017 when anti-galamsey campaign started with force by President Akufo-Addo, the Chinese illegal miners fled, leaving their racially-mixed children behind.
But all this while, the environmental havoc wreaked on rivers and land masses by the illegal mining activities has been the main focus.
However, as BBC Pidgin's Favour Nunoo reports, the stigma that greets these children and their mothers, coupled with deprivation due to the absence of their fathers, may need government intervention.
Video at the link cant post it. Facebook
Video:: Ghana 'galamsey kids’: Children left behind by Chinese miners
This BBC Pidgin documentary about Chinese miners who fathered children with local women while working and living in Ghana cracks open a problem that has escaped the illegal mining discourse.
Since 2017 when anti-galamsey campaign started with force by President Akufo-Addo, the Chinese illegal miners fled, leaving their racially-mixed children behind.
But all this while, the environmental havoc wreaked on rivers and land masses by the illegal mining activities has been the main focus.
However, as BBC Pidgin's Favour Nunoo reports, the stigma that greets these children and their mothers, coupled with deprivation due to the absence of their fathers, may need government intervention.
Video at the link cant post it. Facebook
Video:: Ghana 'galamsey kids’: Children left behind by Chinese miners
reasonable_doubter
Banned
A more detailed version from 2014,
So, when this happens.... not if, the new ocean will be called the nubian ocean
reasonable_doubter
Banned
I mean you can expect more of this mixing... china has like 500m people they need to put somewhere not in china..... the "stigma" is going to go away as it happens more and the chinese actually stay in africa....
thatrapsfan
Superstar
Tanzania police threaten to beat protesters 'like stray dogs' to...
Tanzanian girl with an IG page with huge following, living in LA got the Government shook. She's been posting about nationwide protests tomorrow and theyve beefed up police presence in all the major cities. Police chief was talking about beating protesters like stray dogs if they dare
Tanzanian girl with an IG page with huge following, living in LA got the Government shook. She's been posting about nationwide protests tomorrow and theyve beefed up police presence in all the major cities. Police chief was talking about beating protesters like stray dogs if they dare
Tanzania police threaten to beat protesters 'like stray dogs' to...
Tanzanian girl with an IG page with huge following, living in LA got the Government shook. She's been posting about nationwide protests tomorrow and theyve beefed up police presence in all the major cities. Police chief was talking about beating protesters like stray dogs if they dare
There’s at least one poster here who said he didn’t care about human rights as long as the economy improves
reasonable_doubter
Banned
The Odum of Ala Igbo
Hail Biafra!
Tanzania police threaten to beat protesters 'like stray dogs' to...
Tanzanian girl with an IG page with huge following, living in LA got the Government shook. She's been posting about nationwide protests tomorrow and theyve beefed up police presence in all the major cities. Police chief was talking about beating protesters like stray dogs if they dare
Tanzania's an autocracy now. Sad!
The Odum of Ala Igbo
Hail Biafra!
That won't help Niger. Their population will double in a short amount of time.
So much damn potential wasted.
The Odum of Ala Igbo
Hail Biafra!
Tanzanians are going to learn the hard way about the importance of strong institutions and rule of law.
And these people who say "who cares as long as the economy improves" are gonna learn the hard way too. And to think many(including me) were praising John Magufuli.Tanzanians are going to learn the hard way about the importance of strong institutions and rule of law.
The Odum of Ala Igbo
Hail Biafra!
American “think tanks” like the Atlantic Council want Buhari to go for a second term.
Why are American policy makers so clueless? Or... is Buhari and his cabal simply more pliant to pursue their imperialist agenda?
Why are American policy makers so clueless? Or... is Buhari and his cabal simply more pliant to pursue their imperialist agenda?