February 8

• Cooperatives No Threat to Banks

  IPS

  Nomsa Tsabedze is one of the many people at the Bunye Betfu, Buhle Betfu Credit and Savings Cooperatives waiting to apply for a loan to pay for her children's school fees. Read more »

February 7

• Memorandum Signed Between Maputo and Mbabane

  AIM

  The Mozambican and Swazi capitals, Maputo and Mbabane, have agreed to cooperate in the areas of youth, education, tourism, investment, arts and culture, sport, urban management,... Read more »

February 5

• Prince Blamed for Loan Delay

  Swazi Media

  An ill-timed outburst by King Mswati III's advisor and senior member of the royal household, Prince Mahlaba is what has delayed Swaziland's bid to secure a E2.4 billion bailout... Read more »

• Police Shoot Woman Protester

  Swazi Media

  A woman protester was shot at close range by Swazi police as she was walking from them. Read more »

January 31

• Students Clash With Police After University Closes

  RNW Africa

  Police in Swaziland fired teargas Monday on students protesting their university's failure to open for the semester, injuring several people, a student leader said. Read more »

January 27

• Customs Revenues Help to Prop Up King

  SAR

  The R7 billion (US$879 million) Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) payout to Swaziland for the 2012-13 financial year could keep King Mswati III's tottering government afloat... Read more »

January 26

• Govt Still Needs South African Bailout [analysis]

  OSISA

  It seems as if South Africa's promised 2.4 billion rand bailout for Swaziland is still on the cards despite King Mswati objecting to some of its conditions. And not just on the... Read more »

January 25

• Electricity Supplies to Swaziland Resumed

  AIM

  The Mozambican electricity company, EDM, resumed power supplies to Swaziland, after repairs to the fifth turbine at the Cahora Bassa dam on the Zambezi were completed on 18... Read more »

January 24

• No Money, No CD4 Tests

  PlusNews

  Swaziland is still short of lab reagents needed for CD4 count testing, which is used to initiate and monitor patients on antiretroviral treatment, and HIV-positive people are... Read more »

• Sacked Editor Attacks Swazi King [opinion]

  Swazi Media

  Musa Ndlangamandla, who last week was sacked as editor-in-chief of King Mswati's Swazi Observer newspaper group, has said he would 'rather eat grass' than work for the King again. Read more »

January 20

• Parties Remain Banned for Polls

  Swazi Media

  King Mswati III of Swaziland is to fly in the face of international opposition and continue his ban on political parties at the national elections next year (2013). Read more »

• Does Mswati Need China More Than Taiwan? [opinion]

  Business Daily

  Did King Mswati III of Swaziland host the (in) famous reed dance last year? You may not be very sure. Read more »

• Swazi Rail Project Set to Take Off

  Biz-Community

  South Africans and their Swazi counterparts are expected to enjoy various economic spin-offs from the development of a 146km rail line between the two countries. Read more »

January 19

• New Book Details Nation's Struggle for Democracy [book listing]

  Swazi Media

  The End of the Beginning? 2011, a year in the struggle for freedom in Swaziland by Richard Rooney is a new book published today and available free-of-charge online. You can read on... Read more »

• Editor Replies [opinion]

  Swazi Media

  Musa Ndlangamandla, who was sacked this week from his job as editor-in-chief of the Swazi Observer newspaper group (the paper in effect owned by King Mswati III) has responded to... Read more »

• Police Intimidation Rebuffed

  Swazi Media

  Trade unionists in Swaziland stood their ground and refused to allow police to break up their legitimate meeting. Read more »

January 18

• King's Paper Sacks Editor-in-Chief

  Swazi Media

  Musa Ndlangamandla, the editor-in-chief of the Swazi Observer newspaper group, has been sacked. Read more »

• Fledgling Environmental Authority Up Against Big Business

  IRIN

  Recently hundreds of dead fish floated to the surface of a stream which was the only water source for a rural community in Swaziland's drought-prone eastern region. Read more »

January 17

• New Swazi Railway Line to Boost Economies

  IPS

  The 146-kilometre railway line to be established between South Africa and Swaziland will help reduce the cost of doing business between the two countries. Read more »

• Swazi Rail Project Set to Take Off

  BuaNews

  South Africans and their Swazi counterparts are expected to enjoy various economic spin-offs from the development of a 146 kilometre rail line between the two countries. Read more »

• EDM Admits Power to Swaziland Has Been Interrupted

  AIM

  Contrary to initial statements, the Mozambican electricity company, EDM, has interrupted the supply of power to Swaziland, but this is for technical reasons. Read more »

January 16

• EDM Denies Cutting Power to Swaziland

  AIM

  The Mozambican electricity company, EDM, has denied reports in the Swazi press that it has suspended the supply of power to Swaziland. Read more »

January 13

• Rumblings in Military Augur Badly for King

  SAR

  Swaziland's military is showing signs of irritation at King Mswati III's increasingly desperate cost-cutting to avoid democratic transformation. Read more »

• Country to Build U.S.$2 Billion Railway Through Swaziland

  RNW Africa

  South Africa's state-owned freight transport firm Transnet plans to build a $2 billion railway through Swaziland to create a new link to Indian Ocean ports, the company said... Read more »

• Opposition Squabbles as Govt Collapses

  SAR

  Rather than hastening the apparently inevitable, slow-motion collapse of the Mswati administration, Swaziland's government-in-waiting under the People's United Democratic Movement... Read more »