At first glance eSwatini reads like the name of a Silicon Valley start-up company. But rather than an overnight success story, eSwatini is the name Africa's King Mswati III will change Swaziland's to ...

The prospect of changing a country's name may seem like a rather daunting undertaking, but not for the king of Swaziland. King Mswati III declared the country will now be known as the Kingdom of ...

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Portraits of the Lion and the Great She Elephant — King Mswati III and his mother — stare down from the wall of the immigration office. The animal print pattern of the king’s tribal dress seems a ...

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April 19 (UPI) --The king of Swaziland has given his country a new name: eSwatini. King Mswati III announced Wednesday that his country will henceforth be referred to as the Kingdom of eSwatini, which ...

08:29, Fri, Apr 20, 2018 Updated: 11:57, Fri, Apr 20, 2018 Swaziland is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, neighboured by Mozambique and South Africa and part of the Commonwealth since 1968. Yet ...

THE king of an African country has abruptly changed his nation’s name — because he said it sounded too much like Switzerland. King Mswati III made the surprise announcement on Wednesday that the ...

This is One Good Thing, a weekly column where we tell you about one of the few nice things that happened this week. The small African country of Swaziland celebrated its first ever LGBTQ pride on ...

Africa's last absolute monarch, King Mswati III of Swaziland, has changed his country's name to eSwatini. The new name, which the king announced at celebrations to announce the 50th anniversary of the ...