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Media rights group Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on the Eswatini government to probe an incident in which a journalist was assaulted by prison officers while covering an anti-government protest.
The Eswatini government has added the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to the list of vaccines to be taken as a booster dose, the Ministry of Health said on Monday.
The United States will lift restrictions against individuals travelling from eSwatini and seven other southern African countries starting on December 31, according to a proclamation issued by President Joe Biden on Wednesday.
Amnesty International on Tuesday called on the eSwatini government to release political activists arrested during pro-democracy protests over the past few months and to cease the use of excessive force to crack down on peaceful protestors.
King Mswati III and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday agreed that the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Secretariat would assist eSwatini to establish a forum to facilitate dialogue to resolve the political crisis in the kingdom.
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.