Eswatini: PM Admits Forcing Newspaper Closure

Swaziland's Prime Minister Barnabas Dlamini has said a newspaper in the kingdom was closed down because it published reports critical of his government.

He told a Cabinet retreat at the Pigg's peak Hotel, 'As the government we have seen people who are desperate to criticise us as their public servants at every opportunity. In the past we saw a certain news editor write only on government's faults.'

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