eSwatini authorities have restricted the country’s internet services, leaving most social media applications down.
“There is nothing that will turn things back to normal now.
The network further said that the people of Swaziland will only gain their own government by paralysing the current one and rendering the country a failed state. It is either that or the country becomes a war zone. “If this strategy requires that public transport workers, civil servants, students and newborn sacrifice their occupations for the immediate to medium term, then so be it.”
“The United Nations in eSwatini is particularly concerned by the latest developments in the country, with the involvement of the youth and schoolchildren, and public transport workers, in the protests.”
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