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Craig Ruttle / AP Originally published on July 16, 2021 6:03 pm 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 political reforms. At least 40 people have died and over 150 protesters been hospitalized with injuries resulting from live ammunition or beatings by security forces. The king has ruled his southern African nation, which borders South Africa and Mozambique and was known until 2018 as Swaziland, for 35 years. It is Africa s last absolute monarchy. Political parties are banned. Nearly two-thirds of the country s 1.2 million people live below the poverty line, according to the World Bank.

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