Swaziland The Kingdom of Swaziland is a small landlocked country in southern Africa bordered on three sides by South Africa and to the east by Mozambique. Roughly the size of the U.S. state of Rhode Island, the country is mountainous with steplike...

Kingdom of Swaziland CAPITAL: Mbabane (administrative and judicial); Lobamba (royal and parliamentary) FLAG: Blue, yellow, crimson, yellow, and blue stripes with the shield and spears of the Emasotsha regiment superimposed on the crimson stripe....

Swaziland POPULATION 1,123,605 CHRISTIAN 66 percent SWAZI TRADITIONAL RELIGION 33 percent OTHER (BAHA'I AND MUSLIM) 1 percent Country Overview Introduction The Kingdom of Swaziland, a small, landlocked country in southern Africa, shares its...

The Kingdom of Swaziland is a small, landlocked country in Southern Africa (one of the smallest on the continent), embedded between South Africa in the west, north and south and Mozambique in the east. The country is named after the Swazi, a Bantu...

Every year, hundreds of women travel across the tiny kingdom of Swaziland for the Umhlanga, or reed-dance festival. Having honoured the Queen Mother, the festival culminates in a magnificent display of dance, where a mass of marriageable women performs barebreasted for the onlooking...

Around Africa The coalition for government reform is becoming bigger and bigger, and now business and the church have become members. James Hall reports from Mbabane. She push for government reform in Africa's last country to be ruled by an absolute monarch...

Banks operated with minimum staff and the important sugar refining industry all but ground to a halt Thursday as a pro-democracy strike gripped Swaziland.Some 5,000 demonstrators pushed for multiparty elections in Africa's last absolute monarchy amid tight security in the capital, Mbabane. They protested King...