Full Coverage: Swaziland

17.03.2008 Noin miljoonan asukkaan vuoristoinen Swasimaa on ykköstilalla maailman hiv/aids-tilastoissa: yli 15-vuotiaista swasimaalaisista 26 prosenttia on hiv-positiivisia. Suomen Punaisen Ristin ja EU:n tukema kampanja on ensimmäisen vuotensa aikana tavoittanut lähes 132 000 ihmistä – 14 prosenttia koko Swasimaan väestöstä.

11.03.2008 The Nation Magazine of Swaziland has recorded a rare media victory in the country through a High Court decision to grant the paper a reprieve in a case in which they had been ordered to pay over US$15,000 for defamation

26.02.2008 On February 7, 2008 the privately-owned Nation monthly magazine was ordered to pay E120,000 (approximately US$20,000) to a civil servant for defamation of character by the High Court of Swaziland

21.02.2008 On February 7, 2008 the privately-owned Nation monthly magazine was ordered to pay E120,000 (approximately US$20,000) to a civil servant for defamation of character by the High Court of Swaziland.

12.02.2008 On February 2, 2008, a female journalist with the Times of Swaziland Sunday was assaulted by a church pastor soon after a prayer service called by King Mswati III at his Lozitha palace.

06.02.2008 On February 2, 2008, a female journalist with the Times of Swaziland Sunday was assaulted by a church pastor soon after a prayer service called by King Mswati III at his Lozitha palace.

17.01.2008 On December 11 2007, Communications Minister Mothetjoa Metsing ordered the closure of the People’s Choice (PC FM) radio station. Metsing accused the radio of promoting disorder in the country.

02.11.2007 The Swazi media faces a new threat following a call by Parliament for government to pilot the contentious Media Council Bill within eight weeks.

16.10.2007 The Swazi media faces a new threat following a call by Parliament for government to pilot the contentious Media Council Bill within eight weeks.

11.10.2007 Over 180 participants attended the National ICT Policy Launch and Expo 2007 in Swaziland at the Royal Swazi Spa Convention Centre.

20.08.2007 the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Swaziland was summoned and appeared before a Select Committee of the Parliament of Swaziland which is probing the Editor of the Times of Swaziland Sunday, Mbongeni Mbingo, with a view to sending him to jail for expressing himself.

11.07.2007 Parliament in Swaziland sought to sanction the editor of the privately owned Times of Swaziland Sunday newspaper for expressing himself about the affairs of the House of Assembly in a recent commentary in his publication.

05.06.2007 A new study is the first to link widespread discrimination against women to sexual risk-taking, and thus HIV/AIDS. In sub-Saharan Africa, three quarters of those now infected are female.
From: Physicians for Human Rights

03.05.2007 Kansalaisaktivisti Bhekie Ngobese on omistanut elämänsä aidsin vastaiselle taistelulle. Jotta tauti voitetaan, pitää ihmisillä olla toivoa ja selvä tietoisuus omien tekojensa seuraamuksista, sanoo Ngobese.

18.12.2006 "Swazimaa tekee kuolemaa. Sammuttaisiko viimeinen vuorossa oleva hoitaja valot?" lukee käsinkirjoitetussa viestissä swazimaalaisella Manzinin klinikalla, joka sijaitsee lähellä maan pääkaupunkia Mbabanea. Aidsin levinnäisyys alueella on suuri. Viesti kertoo Swazimaan sairaanhoitajien tuskasta. Monet ovat lähteneet maasta tarjotakseen palvelujaan muualla.

15.12.2006 The working conditions, the lack of basic necessities to treat people and all the dying: it is demoralising," said a nurse, 28, who asked that her name not be used. "It's not just the money - it is hard to watch people die and you are helpless to do anything about it because there are no drugs or other things [to treat them]."

20.11.2006 Nearly 115 million school-aged children will not be in school on Universal Children's Day today--and not because it's a holiday. To help combat this, the Centre for Development and Population Activities has launched community-based non-formal education programs in three southern African countries.

27.04.2006 Sub-Saharan Africa's last absolute monarch, King Mswati of Swaziland, said his country is not ready for political parties and criticised foreign governments for meddling in its internal affairs.

28.02.2006 The head of Swaziland's oldest political party has pledged to officially register his organisation, testing whether the country's new constitution has really marked the end of decades of a royal decree prohibiting political opposition.

10.01.2006 A Danish coalition has asked 12 international organisations to provide legal and moral assistance to 14 members of Swaziland's opposition party who have beern arrested on treason charges.