Eswatini Observer
Daily newspaper founded in 1981 as the Swazi Observer and owned by Tibiyo TakaNgwane, the royal conglomerate held in trust for the king. Published in Mbabane with weekend editions, it covers national politics, courts, business and sport, and is broadly supportive of the monarchy, standing alongside the Times group as one of Eswatini's two main newspaper houses.
Eswatini Observer at a glance
- Country
- Eswatini
- Region
- Southern Africa · Africa
- Kind of outlet
- Daily newspaper
- Editorial leaning
- Centrist
- Website
- eswatiniobserver.com ↗
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Where Eswatini Observer sits in Eswatini's press
Eswatini Observer is one of 2 outlets tracked in Eswatini and the only daily newspaper tracked there. By outlets tracked, Eswatini ranks 45th of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Africa hub, which lists 178 outlets in all.
Across Africa, Crosswire tracks 73 of the 396 daily newspapers in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Eswatini Observer outside Eswatini, starting with Southern Africa, are TimesLIVE (South Africa), Jornal de Angola (Angola), Mmegi (Botswana) and Lesotho Times (Lesotho). Opening one of them beside Eswatini Observer is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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