Eswatini: First Community Radio Station Registered in Swaziland After 19 Years Trying

Lubombo has become the first community radio station to be registered in Swaziland / eSwatini after 19 years of trying. It still has to apply for and be granted a licence before it can start broadcasting.

Nearly all broadcast media in Swaziland is state controlled and they operate as a propaganda arm for King Mswati III, sub-Saharan Africa's last absolute monarch.

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