Swaziland’s King Mswati III has appointed a new prime minister who shares the absolute monarch’s distrust of democracy campaigners, the Associated Press reported on Thursday (16 October 2008). King Mswati III announced Barnabus Dlamini Dlamini, a former International Monetary Fund (IMF) official, then gave a speech denouncing those calling for democratic reform as ‘a threat to the peace and stability of the country’.
Trade unions and pro-democracy groups in Swaziland see the parliament and prime minister as rubber stamps of the king. |
Sunday, October 19, 2008
NEW SWAZI P.M. AGAINST DEMOCRACY
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