Swaziland

Swaziland

Population: 1.2 million
GDP: $2900 million
Debt: $12.7% of GDP
Overview:

Growing economic troubles loom in 2010 with more than two-thirds of Swazis below the poverty line; the government of absolutist King Mswati III will respond by stepping up repression and covering up corruption.

news from Swaziland

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  • Vol 46 No 9
  • 29/04/2005

Democracy's a luxury

The economy is failing and running out of food as King Mswati buys a $500,000 limousine

  • Vol 43 No 19
  • 27/09/2002

King and pawns

Absolute monarchy may be benign but donors and neighbours don't like it

  • Vol 41 No 24
  • 08/12/2000

High price of kingship

Politics get complicated when an absolute monarch changes his mind

  • Vol 40 No 4
  • 19/02/1999

King's move

The political relaunch of a former Prime Minister, Obed Dlamini, could revive the antimonarchist opposition. This has been marking time since the 70,000-strong Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions failed to get support for a general strike in 1997 or f...

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