Kungahlwa Kwenile
24 killed and over 70 injured amid crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Swaziland
In spite of the militarized crackdown, people across urban and rural Swaziland are taking to the streets against Africa’s last absolute monarch. The Communist Party calls for sustained uprising on a country-wide scale in order to “exhaust the army and police.”
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