An election with no parties: Eswatini holds vote under monarch’s control

MBABANE, Eswatini – Voters in Eswatini were voting in parliamentary elections on Friday whose outcome will make little difference to the politics of a country controlled by Africa’s last absolute monarch. King Mswati III has ruled the southern African kingdom of about 1.2 million people since 1986, when he inherited the crown from his father, Sobhuza II. Political parties are banned…

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