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 ...

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 ...

In this Monday Sept. 3, 2012 file photo Eswatini’s King, Mswati III, front, dances during a Reed Dance in Mbabane. Pro-democracy activists in the country previously known as Swaziland, have vowed ...

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 ...

Cape Town – In South Africa, the names of streets, public places and infrastructure and even cities have changed regularly - to the point where locals have lost track of keeping up in some parts.

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 ...

Swaziland's King Mswati III has announced he is renaming the country as the Kingdom of eSwatini. The monarch announced the official change at Golden Jubilee celebrations for the 50th anniversary of ...

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 ...

Meaning "place of the Swazi", eSwatini is the Swazi language name for the tiny nation landlocked between South Africa and Mozambique. Unlike some countries, Swaziland did not change its name when it ...