On Thursday, the former Swaziland marks 50 years of independence. To celebrate, King Mswati III renamed the country eSwatini. The move is part of an attempt to break with the colonial past, but not ...

To rebrand an entire country takes more than an announcement and some applause, as eSwatini—or is it still Swaziland?—is finding out. King Mswati III announced on April 19 that Swaziland would now be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. King Mswati III of Swaziland (C) has announced that his country had changed its name to eSwatini to mark 50 years since ...

The king of Swaziland, Africa’s last absolute monarch, has changed the name of his country to the “Kingdom of eSwatini” to mark the 50th anniversary of independence – and to avoid confusion with ...

The government of the southern African nation of Eswatini, which was known as Swaziland up until 2018, is brutally cracking down on the largest anti-government protests in the country since it became ...