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Businesses Burn in Eswatini as Protestors Ignore Curfew. Photo: Twitter video screenshot Angry protestors in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) have reportedly ignored a 6pm to 5am curfew set by the government on Wednesday night and are burning businesses with ties to King Mswati as their protest against the royal leader continues. According to award-winning Zimbabwean journalist and documentary filmmaker, Hopewell Chin’ono, “the King deployed the military to quell the protesters but the protest...

news Eswatini: Anti-monarchy protests rock African kingdom dw.com 17 hrs ago dw.com Authorities imposed a strict curfew to contain the unrest in Africas last absolute monarchy, as protests against King Mswati III turned violent. © Gulshan Khan/AFP/Getty Images King Mswati III has ruled Eswatini for more than three decades Security forces in the small southern African kingdom of Eswatini on Tuesday fired gunshots and tear gas to disperse pro-democracy demonstrations, witness...

A Palestinian Bedouin school boy walks in the village of Khan al-Ahmar in the West Bank on September 16, 2018. (Photo: Wisam Hashlamoun/APA Images) I first met Angela Godfrey-Goldstein, the Israeli peace and anti-apartheid activist, on a sunny spring Sunday in Jerusalem almost exactly seventeen years ago, in 2004. It was at the end of the second Intifada, and a few of us clambered into a van so that she and a colleague could give us a tour of what it was like to be a Palestinian living ...

Crackdown by cops on Eswatini protesters after law student slain By Staff Reporter ZWELI MARTIN DLAMINI Pretoria - Eswatini police allegedly fired tear gas and live ammunition at thousands of mourners who attended the memorial service of murdered university student Thabane Nkomonye over the weekend. This was after the youth in that country took to the streets in the capital, Manzini, demanding justice for the slain law student. Swaziland News reported earlier that Nkomonye was allegedly killed ...

WATCH: Crackdown by cops on Eswatini protesters after law student slain By Staff Reporter ZWELI MARTIN DLAMINI Pretoria - Eswatini police allegedly fired tear gas and live ammunition at thousands of mourners who attended the memorial service of murdered university student Thabane Nkomonye over the weekend. This was after the youth in that country took to the streets in the capital, Manzini, demanding justice for the slain law student. Swaziland News reported earlier that Nkomonye was allegedly ...

The first members of any royal family I met were several of the wives of the Baganda kings or Kabakas who we greeted as part of a small delegation…

Local truck drivers have threatened to intensify their actions against foreign nationals employed in the freight industry in the coming weeks.

South African soccer legend Mlungisi 'Professor' Ngubane has named his nine best coaches in the Premier Soccer League era.

With alumni living in 116 countries, Luther truly is a global community. In non-pandemic times, stories abound about Luther grads recognizing each other by their Norse T-shirts in Madrid, or spotting a fellow grad’s class ring in Oslo. During this time of limited travel, we’re really missing our friends around the world. So we decided to check in with our alumni abroad to learn how they’ve experienced the pandemic in their countries of residence.  We hope you feel a sense of expansivenes...

Sibongile Masuku – Swaziland SHARE: I have learned a lot of skills through connecting with Gender Links activities in my community. From the meetings I have attended I have learned new skills, especially business management and self-empowerment. Now I want to use these skills to make a difference in other women’s lives. I am the chairperson of the Swaziland Lutsango-LwakaNgwane multipurpose cooperative limited in Mbabane. The cooperative came to life when local women realised that they coul...