Absolute Monarch News Today

Voters in Eswatini will cast their ballots on Friday in parliamentary elections whose outcome will make little difference to the politics of a country controlled by Africa's last absolute monarch. King Mswati III has ruled the southern African kingdom of about 1.2 million people since 1986, when he inherited the crown from his father, Sobhuza II. Political parties are banned, but individual candidates can run for seats in the House of Assembly every five years.

DailyMail.com explores some of the history and traditions of the Carnival tradition across New Orleans, the country and the globe, in its first year unencumbered by Covid restrictions.

When journalist Patrick Bulger met the young Swazi king in 1983, a teenager who’d returned from boarding school in the UK to meet his subjects, no-one could have predicted how things would turn out for Eswatini.

Africa’s last absolute monarchy has been rocked by demonstrations, even as regional mediators tried to address the crisis.