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King Mswati has directed Swaziland's college graduates to leave the country to find employment, admitting that a lack of jobs at home gives them no alternative. (AllAfrica)

Regional election observers to the recent parliamentary polls in Swaziland have praised the conduct of the elections and the high voter turnout. (AllAfrica)

MBABANE Thursday, October 09, 2008 (IRIN) - King Mswati has directed Swaziland's college graduates to leave the country to find employment, admitting that a lack of jobs at home gives them no alternative. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG Monday, September 29, 2008 (IRIN) - The October issue of the Forced Migration Review (FMR), a journal published three times a year by Oxford University's Refugee Studies Centre, is a 38-article buffet on climate change and displacement, a “hot topic” according to Jean-Francois Durieux, a lecturer at the centre. (irinnews.org)

KAMPALA Monday, September 29, 2008 (IRIN) - Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu called cluster munitions "an abomination whose manufacture and use should not be tolerated by any government", amid calls for African countries to do more to ensure the weapons are banned. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG Thursday, September 25, 2008 (IRIN) - As South Africa prepared to swear in a new president on 25 September after the dramatic ousting of Thabo Mbeki four days before, attempts by commentators to summarise the former president's mixed legacy have not failed to mention his controversial stance on AIDS. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG Thursday, September 25, 2008 (IRIN) - At least six countries in Southern Africa could receive poor rainfall during the critical planting season starting next month, says an early forecast for the 2008/09 agricultural season. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG Tuesday, September 23, 2008 (IRIN) - The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food has called on governments to draw up national laws obliging them to take action when there is a threat of famine or food insecurity. (irinnews.org)

Swaziland are to depart from Johannesburg today for their key World Cup qualifier against Togo without striker Siza Dlamini. (AllAfrica)

FEW SMALL COUNTRIES do celebration better than Swaziland. The tiny land is locked into the South African land mass between the north-east provinces of Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal and the Mozambique border.

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ANOTHER MAN IS LIVING YOUR WET DREAM: While the biggest excitement in your life right now is probably the start of the fall TV season, the King of Swaziland spent most of last week trying to choose a new wife ...

The crowd ululated, whistled and danced. Their candidate had won! Last Sunday, the people of Mbabane East returned Esther Dlamini to Swaziland's House of Assembly for a second term. (AllAfrica)

Swazi police have unearthed a plot to bomb the state-owned "Swazi Observer" newspaper. The development comes in the wake of the arrest of a suspect who survived what the police call a "terrorist" act in which two other men were killed when a bomb exploded prematurely during an attempt to bomb an overhead bridge on 20 September 2008 near King Mswati's palace at Lozitha, outside Mbabane, the capital city. (AllAfrica)

JOHANNESBURG Friday, August 22, 2008 (IRIN) - The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has announced it will go ahead with plans to set up a regional grain reserve, while urging member states not to impose export restrictions on maize as the region grapples with high food prices. (irinnews.org)

MBABANE Friday, August 22, 2008 (IRIN) - Several hundred Swazis, including people living with HIV, marched on 21 August to highlight the need for government to prioritise funding to alleviate the humanitarian crises in the country. (irinnews.org)

It has the last absolute monarch in the world and the highest HIV-infection rate.

Swaziland international midfielder Wonder Nhleko has surfaced at First Division Inland Stream side University of Pretoria with the hope of sealing a move after being discarded by Platinum Stars. (AllAfrica)

An abandoned straw hut slumps amidst overgrown bushes on a somewhat deserted homestead. Only a foot path leading past it indicates that the place is still occupied. (AllAfrica)

JOHANNESBURG Thursday, August 21, 2008 (IRIN) - One symptom of climate change is more severe tropical cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons, featuring in the headlines more often. (irinnews.org)

Security has been tightened in Swaziland, where authorities are investigating a failed bomb attack near one of King Mswati III's royal palaces.

The soaring cost of fuel and basic foods over the past year has left many countries in sub-Saharan Africa unable to adequately fund critical activities, such as health care and the provision of safe drinking water, their leaders told the General Assembly's annual high-level debate today. (AllAfrica)

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MBABANE Wednesday, August 20, 2008 (IRIN) - Erratic weather and a prolonged dry spell caused Swaziland to record its lowest ever maize harvest in April 2007; although the 2008 harvest was double the size, it is still not enough, and a lack of funds to meet the zooming price of inputs means people might have to go hungry again next year. (irinnews.org)

MBABANE Monday, August 18, 2008 (IRIN) - One of two wives, Winile Mngometulu, 32, was tested for HIV in 2002 after her husband's death. Mngometulu now works for the Swaziland AIDS Support (AIS) organisation, helping HIV-positive people come to terms with their status. She told IRIN/PlusNews of her experience. (irinnews.org)

Swaziland’s parliamentary elections have underlined the dire and longstanding problems that confront the small southern African nation. The country needs seriously to reconsider its political arrangements if it is to deal with the challenges it faces. (AllAfrica)

Two men were killed and a third injured after a bomb exploded on 21 September close to King Mswati III's Lozitha palace, 25kms east of the Swazi capital, Mbabane. (AllAfrica)

JOHANNESBURG Tuesday, August 05, 2008 (IRIN) - In developing countries, where survival is often a daily struggle, people cannot afford to wait for their government to bail them out. Many are living in the grip of climate change, coping with frequent droughts, heavy flooding, intense cyclones and other extreme weather events, and have found ways to adapt: (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG Monday, August 04, 2008 (IRIN) - As countries grapple with high food prices, attempts to draw attention to an inefficient food aid delivery system have been pushed to the back burner after the World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks collapsed last week. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG Thursday, July 31, 2008 (IRIN) - The world can expect to become about 0.2°C warmer per decade for the next two decades, according to several scenarios prepared by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC). Even if the concentrations of all greenhouse gases and aerosols were kept constant at the levels they were in 2000, further warming of about 0.1°C per decade would still be expected. (irinnews.org)

Two men were killed and a third injured after a bomb exploded on 21 September close to King Mswati III's Lozitha palace, 25kms east of the Swazi capital, Mbabane.