Mswati III

Oh, not an ingozikazi then.

All hail King Mswati.

Uh, listen, Mal, thank you so much.

You've literally made our day.

Certainly not gonna be enjoying chocolates or lunches out.

Eswatini's King Mswati III has praised the Basotho nation for its resilience and cultural heritage.

He was speaking at Setsoto Stadium in Maseru where Lesotho's 60th independence celebrations were held.

King Mswati has commended Lesotho's contribution to regional integration and economic development.

Yeah, we have a king.

King Mswati III is our ruling monarch.

He's the last absolute monarch on the continent, and so when he turned 50, for his 50th birthday, he changed the name of the country, as one does, and he c- the, our language is SiSwati, so it means the land of the Swazis in the SiSwati language.

So now it's Eswatini.

Jeremiah said, I am tired of being made a fool, a mockery.

I'm not talking anymore about the Lord.

But then he said, I can't help it.

There's a fire in my bones.

He spends every day-

They ask me if I knew King Mswati

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in a small cell with his cellmate from Yemen.

Czech President Petr Pavel said the principles underpinning the United Nations matter equally for Ukraine, the South China Sea, and the Taiwan Strait, and urged China to shoulder its responsibility to ease tensions.

Eswatini’s King Mswati III and Palau’s President Surangel Whipps Jr. also voiced support.

Eight nations, including Australia, Japan, Germany, France, and South Korea, issued a joint statement stressing the importance of peace in the Indo-Pacific.

That wraps up today’s briefing.

African leaders at this year's event took to the stage to address several issues ranging from debt burden, recurring conflicts and questions about AI and the future.

We gathered some bits of the speeches by King Mswati III of the Kingdom of Iswatini, President William Ruto of Kenya and Rwanda's Prime Minister Justin Nsemgiumwa.

To ordinary people across the globe, this assembly must not be perceived merely as a forum where the world discusses its problems, but as an organization that actively solves them.

global public debt reached a record 102 trillion dollars in 2024 46 developing countries now spend more on interest on debt than on classrooms and

Iswatini was one of the first to sign up.

For 40 years, King Mswati III has reigned unchallenged over this small state of 1.2 million people.

In 2018, he even decided to rename it.

Zueli Dlamini is a journalist.