Eswatini: Ellinah Wamukoya Becomes Africa's First Female Bishop

The Anglican Church of Southern Africa has consecrated the continent's first woman bishop. Read more »

Africa: Political Leaders 'Learn Little' From North African Uprisings

Spurred by popular uprisings in North Africa, pressure to respect the human rights of all Africans is growing across the continent, but political leaders are standing in the way,… Read more »

Eswatini: Deep Cuts in Govt Payroll Threatened

The International Monetary Fund has suggested that the Swaziland government, already facing protests from its citizens, may have to slash the government payroll by U.S. $35… Read more »

Eswatini: King Mswati III Faces Royal Wedding Protest in London

Human rights activists and southern African exiles, organised by the Swaziland Vigil, are planning to protest outside one of London's most expensive hotels this evening to condemn… Read more »

Eswatini: Police Fire Teargas, Rubber Bullets at Protesters

Swaziland's paramilitary police force engaged in sporadic running battles with protesters, fired teargas and rubber bullets, and detained activists in a bid to crush a proclaimed… Read more »

Eswatini: Govt Cracks Down on Protesters

Swazi authorities cracked down on union and opposition activists on Tuesday in an attempt to crush anti-government protests which democracy campaigners called for this week. Read more »

Eswatini: Protesters Plan to Bring Capital to Standstill

Civil society and union activists will join students in a mass protest against the Swazi government on Friday. Read more »

Eswatini: Environmentalist Seeks to Balance Interests of People, Wildlife

Award-winnning Swaziland Environmentalist and Public Attorney Thuli Makama has built a reputation of standing up for the rights of civil society and local communities. Read more »

Eswatini: Prize-Winning Attorney Assures Environmental Groups Are Heard

When Swaziland's Environment Ministry denied NGOs full representation in environmental management discussions, environmentalist and public affairs attorney Thuli Brilliance Makama… Read more »

Zimbabwe: South Africa's Motlanthe Joins Talks

Zimbabwe's protracted negotiations on the formation of a power-sharing government moved to Swaziland on Monday, where key leaders of the  Southern African Development… Read more »

Eswatini: Reforms Long Overdue

Swaziland’s parliamentary elections have underlined the dire and longstanding problems that confront the small southern African nation. The country needs seriously to… Read more »

Eswatini: Report Links Discrimination to HIV

Gender-based discrimination in Botswana and Swaziland is integrally linked to the high rates of HIV infection among women in those countries, a study by Physicians for Human Rights… Read more »

Africa: Tommy Boys, Lesbian Men and Ancestral Wives: Female Sex Practices in Africa

This book is a compilation of articles on the experiences of lesbian women in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Namibia, South Africa, and Swaziland. The stories were born out of the… Read more »

Eswatini: Women Care for Families Struck by HIV Through Handcraft Trade

Women in Swaziland's rural areas, hard-hit by HIV/Aids, are responding to the family crisis through a private business that supplies 500 different outlets throughout the world with… Read more »

South Africa: Mbeki Condemns Leadership Transition in Togo, Outlines Foreign Policy Views in Annual Address

President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa has condemned the leadership transition in Togo, warning that it should send a message to the people of Côte d'Ivoire on the urgency of… Read more »

Eswatini: The Feminization of HIV/Aids in African Countries

Presentation by Mary M. Kanya, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Swaziland to the United States of America, at the Fifth Annual African Women's and Children's Health Symposium: The… Read more »

Africa: UN Official Implicates HIV in Southern Africa Food Crisis

James Morris, Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme, who recently returned from a two-week trip through southern Africa, says there is a humanitarian crisis in the… Read more »

Eswatini: Unpaid Caregivers Ease Swaziland's Grim Struggle Against HIV/Aids

The village of Gamula is about as far from the center of power as it is possible to be in this Kuwait-sized country of a million people. Hunger is everywhere, in the bloated… Read more »

Eswatini: Workers Plan Blockade To Achieve Democracy

Johannesburg The Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions (SFTU) is consolidating plans for an economic blockade next week, to try to force King Mswati III and the government to agree… Read more »

Eswatini: Workers Plan Blockade To Achieve Democracy

The Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions (SFTU) is consolidating plans for an economic blockade next week, to try to force King Mswati III and the government to agree to democratic… Read more »