In April Thailand’s military dictatorship lifted the martial law imposed on the country since the coup against the democratically-elected government of Yingluck Shinawatra in May 2014. It was a ...

A demonstrator dressed with a vintage uniform raises his fist next to images of the 1932 coup in Thailand being projected on a white screen placed by protesters in front of the democracy monument as ...

One nation is making its Olympics debut in Tokyo. Formerly known as Swaziland, the Kingdom of Eswatini—Africa’s last absolute monarchy—will be represented when four of its athletes go for the gold in ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract By the later eighteenth century, the Danish-Norwegian monarchy had a convincing track record for stability and the near-absence of domestic ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe — For the past six weeks, pro-democracy protesters in Eswatini have sporadically taken to the streets to express their displeasure with the rule of King Mswati III and to call for ...

Military and police patrols are on the streets of the tiny African nation of eSwatini, and opposition leaders are in hiding, they told CNN Tuesday, as the continent’s last absolute monarchy tries to ...

JOHANNESBURG—A week of nationwide protests has left dozens of people dead in the tiny nation of Eswatini, raising the prospect that Africa’s last absolute monarchy could fall. Soldiers deployed to ...