Rebellion breaks out against the absolute king: Forced men to marry two women

Many riots in the last African country officially ruled by an absolute monarch. It's about Eswatin, known until 2018 as Swaziland.

Totally surrounded by South Africa, with which 90% of trade relations are exchanged, the country with a little over 1 million inhabitants is led by King Mswati III in 1986.

His firm is needed for every act of parliament, but also for any judicial decision, and according to the opposition in recent years, pressure on the opposition and the part of society that requires more rights has deteriorated markedly.

Recent protests have been suppressed by authorities, and top leaders are hiding or crossing the border with South Africa.

We can't even talk without the king's permission, the permission should be taken even when he's not there. Every decision we make, is approved by him, and only by him”, denouncing a local MP, involved in the protests. <

The change of name is not the king's sole authoritarian decision, which has 15 wives. In 2019, King Mswati III ruled that every adult male should marry, at least, two women, or be sentenced to prison.

One prison institution, which until 1968 was not known in the African kingdom, from the moment that the convicted crimes were taken to Mount Nonyan and thrown from the top.

Border countries with Eswati, such as South Africa, Botswana and Zimbwe are trying to lower the tension, while the king has indicated that if the people are going to decide for constitutional changes, he is willing, but that this should happen “with reforms and mediation”.

Institutions like Amnesty International have named what is happening in the South African country as a “direct human rights attack”.