The king of Swaziland has announced that his country had changed its name to eSwatini to mark 50 years since independence from British rule.

He said the move was also necessary to stop the country from being confused with Switzerland.

Meaning ‘place of the Swazi’, eSwatini is the Swazi language name for the tiny nation landlocked betweenSouth Africa and Mozambique.

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