Swaziland's King Mswati III addresses the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Sept. 20, 2017. The king said that he was officially changing the country's name to eSwatini. Exercising one of the perks ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the world’s few absolute monarchs, the king of Swaziland has announced that his country had changed its name to eSwatini to mark 50 years since independence from British rule. According to him, ...

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 ...