Kingdom’s communications commission issued order to mobile operators with immediate effect, MTN says
Mobile operators in the Southern African kingdom of Eswatini have been told to suspend access to Facebook and its messenger app, the local unit of telecoms group MTN said, after protests against the king flared into violence.
Eswatini government spokesperson Sabelo Dlamini referred all questions to the communications ministry. A senior official there was not immediately available when phoned. Anger against King Mswati III, the country’s absolute ruler, has been building for years. What began as demonstrations against police brutality in June and July escalated into violence, which the local authorities quashed with teargas and water cannon, and another round of protests erupted in recent weeks.
SA President Cyril Ramaphosa appointed the envoys to Eswatini in his capacity as chair of regional bloc Sadc’s organ on defence, politics and security co-operation.deputy minister of international relations & co-operation Candith Mashego-Dlamini and former cabinet minister Jeff Radebe,Campaigners say 53-year-old Mswati has ignored calls for reforms that would nudge Eswatini, which changed its name from Swaziland in 2018, in the direction of democracy.
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