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Eswatini’s 30-Year Grand Plan Still on Track to Achieve First-World Vision
Eswatini Observer
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August 19, 2025
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe 30-year Grand Plan aimed at transforming Eswatini into a first-world nation is still in the pipeline. Stakeholder Engagements Underway Acting Government Spokesperson Thabile Mdluli explained that the Office of the Prime...
Over 70 000 Visitors Expected at 2025 Eswatini International Trade Fair
Eswatini Observer
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August 19, 2025
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Eswatini International Trade Fair (EITF) 2025 is set to attract over 70 000 visitors, according to Sibusiso Mnisi, External Trade Promotions at the Eswatini Investment Promotion Authority (EIPA). Event Dates and Theme...
Eswatini Man (29) Loses Everything to Gambling Addiction
Eswatini Observer
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August 18, 2025
Reading Time: 2 minutesA 29-year-old Eswatini man shares how gambling addiction cost him his career, relationships, and financial stability, and why he wants others to avoid the same trap. “I’ve lost it all,” was a confession of a 29-year-old...
Nedbank Injects E250,000 into EITF Green Zone to Promote Sustainability
Eswatini Observer
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August 18, 2025
Reading Time: 2 minutesNedbank Eswatini invests E250,000 into EITF green zone to promote sustainability, renewable energy, youth entrepreneurship, and climate-smart initiatives. Nedbank Supports EITF Green Zone NEDBANK Eswatini has injected E250...
Govt and EU Commit to Empower Eswatini Youth for Sustainable Development
Eswatini Observer
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August 18, 2025
Reading Time: 2 minutesGovernment, in partnership with the European Union, has reaffirmed its commitment to equipping young people with the skills, opportunities, and resources they need to become active drivers of the nation’s sustainable...
UK Cuts Bilateral Aid to Eswatini
Eswatini Observer
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August 17, 2025
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe United Kingdom has cut its bilateral development assistance to Eswatini to zero for the current financial year, marking a significant shift in how the country will receive support from London. The announcement comes as...
Eswatini: At the King’s Pleasure
JSTOR Daily
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August 15, 2025
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. What’s in a name? If you’re a country, rather than a person, then the answer, should you choose to change it, is a quite bewildering array of logistical expenses. The tiny nation...
Eswatini citizens remain banned from visiting Beijing as tiny Kingdom holds on to Taiwan, Business Federation urges Government to engage China and establish diplomatic relations amid struggle to import goods.
Swaziland News
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By Musa Mdluli MBABANE:Johannes Manikela,the Business Federation of Eswatini(BFE) Head of Retail has appealed to Government to consider engaging China and establish diplomatic relations. This comes after Beijing restricted emaSwati from visiting...
eSwatini: Bushfire’s CollaboNation shares new track
Music in Africa
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August 13, 2025
The initiative, supported by MTN and produced by Bushfire Records, brings together artists from across the continent to create original cross-genre and cross-cultural music. The 2025 release, whose title means “Mountain Horizon” in Siswati, is...
Eswatini’s young honey-hunters sustain a rare bond with wild birds
Mongabay
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August 13, 2025
In Eswatini, the Southern African country formerly known as Swaziland, people still commonly hunt for honey with the help of wild birds, a new study finds. This rare form of human-wildlife cooperation, which has disappeared from much of Africa, is...
FNB and WesBank Inject E430 000 into Eswatini International Trade Fair 2025
Eswatini Observer
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August 14, 2025
Reading Time: 2 minutesWesBank and First National Bank (FNB) Eswatini have injected a combined E430 000 into this year’s Eswatini International Trade Fair (EITF), reaffirming their long-standing support for the country’s premier business showcase....
King Mswati III Invites E40 Billion Investment for Eswatini Water Projects
Eswatini Observer
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August 14, 2025
Reading Time: 2 minutesHis Majesty King Mswati III has invited multilateral financial institutions, development partners and private investors to fund multi-billion Emalangeni water projects in Eswatini. He highlighted two prioritised bankable...
Eswatini’s Digital Transformation Crucial for Economic Resilience and Growth
Eswatini Observer
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August 11, 2025
Reading Time: 2 minutesEswatini’s ongoing digital transformation presents a significant opportunity to drive inclusive growth, but it requires bold reforms, including restructuring the Eswatini Posts and Telecommunications Corporation (EPTC), to...
AU WATER SUMMIT:King Mswati invites investors and development partners to consider funding eSwatini’s multibillion water projects to promote access to water and enhance agricultural production.
Swaziland News
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By Musa Mdluli CAPE TOWN:King Mswati has invited investors and development partners to consider financing the ongoing multibillion water projects in eSwatini. The King was addressing Heads of State and other stakeholders during the African...
AfDB: Eswatini’s Greatest Untapped Potential Lies in Natural Resources
Eswatini Observer
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August 13, 2025
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhile Eswatini has made strides in business growth and attracting foreign investment, the African Development Bank (AfDB) asserts that the country’s greatest potential lies in its natural resources. According to the AfDB’s...
Choose Wisely: Eswatini Football Association Elections and the Future of Football
Eswatini Observer
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August 12, 2025
Reading Time: 3 minutesWITH the weekend’s campaigns now behind us, all eyes turn to the Eswatini Football Association (EFA) elections set for this Sunday. The noise, the promises many of them ‘empty’, have come and gone. Now is the time to choose...
Chinese triads and Mexican cartels exploit US cuts to wildlife aid
Financial Review
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August 12, 2025
Mbabane, Eswatini | If HIV patients in the global south were an obvious casualty of Elon Musk’s decimation of US foreign aid, one group may have been unintended beneficiaries: the international criminal gangs involved in the illicit trade of...
Eswatini Government Facilitates Safe and Orderly Repatriation of Foreign Inmates
Eswatini Observer
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August 8, 2025
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMbabane – The Government of Eswatini is working to ensure the safe and orderly repatriation of five foreign inmates who were transferred from the United States of America to Eswatini last month. According to the Ministry of...
The state of democratic governance in Commonwealth countries in Africa
The Standard Gambia
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August 19, 2025
- Advertisement - By Madi Jobarteh The National Assembly of The Gambia is currently hosting the 54th Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) Africa Regional Conference for the first time. It is indeed an achievement for the Assembly since the...
Eswatini Foreign Minister Pholile Dlamini-Shakantu assures South Africa and other neighboring countries that United States deported criminals not a threat to regional security, to be repatriated soon.
Swaziland News
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By Musa Mdluli MBABANE:Pholile Dlamini-Shakantu, the eSwatini Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has assured South Africa and other neighboring countries that, the five(5) United States(US) deported criminals won’t undermine...