Hundreds of young women and girls wearing colourful skirts and necklaces danced before Eswatini's King Mswati III on Saturday, during a centuries-old, coming-of-age ceremony in Africa's last absolute ...

Held in the Kingdom of Eswatini, the titular reed dance is an annual ceremony where tens of thousands of unmarried women come to dance in extremely skimpy outfits in front of the king in the hope that ...