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Prime Minister Cleopas Dlamini has dismissed talk of an interim eSwatini government while the country’s feuding parties dialogue to resolve a festering political crisis in the tiny southern African kingdom.
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has dispatched envoys to eSwatini where at least 29 people have been killed and scores others injured in clashes between pro-democracy protesters and security forces since last week.
UN secretary general António Guterres on Tuesday called for restraint in eSwatini where anti-government protesters have clashed with the security forces during the past few days.
Japan has made a food donation valued at more than US$1.8 million to assist over 30,000 food-insecure households in eSwatini.
Rights group Amnesty International on Thursday called on the eSwatini authorities to drop what it termed “trumped-up charges” against two incarcerated lawmakers accused of engaging in anti-government activities.
The United States embassy in Mbabane has slammed the arrest of two pro-democracy eSwatini Members of Parliament on alleged terrorism charges.
eSwatini police on Friday broke up a march by pro-democracy protesters on the same day as King Mswati III hosted an open public forum to discuss a simmering political crisis in the southern African kingdom.
King Mswati III has invited all his subjects to a meeting on Friday to discuss the political crisis in eSwatini where pro-democracy activists have clashed with security forces during the past few weeks over their demands for reforms.
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) will dispatch another ministerial delegation to eSwatini in the next few days to help defuse the political tensions in the kingdom, Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi said on Tuesday.
A ministerial delegation from the security troika of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) arrived in eSwatini on Sunday to resolve the political crisis in the kingdom where protesters have clashed with security forces during the past few weeks.