Swaziland's King Mswati III has increased his annual household budget for 2014 by more than 10 percent to US$61m, this is on top of the 13 percent increase he had in 2013.
The spending increases came after the king, who rules Swaziland as sub-Saharan Africa's last absolute monarch, promised his subjects he would freeze his personal budget during the kingdom's present financial crisis.
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