Swaziland’s King Mswati III took a lot of heat in January when he announced that he was going to begin construction on a set of nine palaces at a cost of $15 million. The palaces will house 7 of the king’s 10 wives.
This comes at a time when up to one-third of Swaziland’s population will […]
About 2,000 protesters turned out to highlight the lack of democracy in Swaziland in August. Swaziland was being visited at the time by heads of state as part of an international conference on sustainable development.
Swaziland made the protesters’ point for them by using what the BBC described as “heavily armed paramilitary police and soldiers [who] […]
On April 9, 2003, two separate news stories appeared on the United Nations Integrated Regional INformation Networks which really summed up everything that is currently wrong with Africa. Both stories concerned events in Swaziland and the dueling headlines went like this,
Below Normal Harvest Expected
New Attempt to Muzzle the News Media
The first story, of course, dealt […]
The World Food Program reports that food shortages are coming to an end in Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia, but such problems continue to worsen in Zimbabwe.
James Morris, head of the World Food Program, told The New York Times,
A serious humanitarian disaster has been averted. Food has been put in place over the last several […]
A study published this month in The Lancet should settle once and for all whether or not vaccination of disease is a worthwhile goal to achieve in the developing world. There has been some skepticism over whether or not poor nations possessed the infrastructure to carry out large scale vaccination programs.
The study looked at World […]