{"id":11788,"date":"2024-03-11T15:04:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T15:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/11\/eswatini-denies-reports-kingdom-faces-shortage-of-men\/"},"modified":"2024-03-11T15:04:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T15:04:06","slug":"eswatini-denies-reports-kingdom-faces-shortage-of-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/eswatini-denies-reports-kingdom-faces-shortage-of-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Eswatini denies reports kingdom faces shortage of men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The kingdom of Eswatini has been forced to deny reports it was offering citizenship to men from other southern African countries because of a shortage at home.<\/p>\n<p>A faked viral letter, pretending to be from King Mswati III, expressed concern over the \u201cscarcity of men\u201d in Eswatini.<\/p>\n<p>The faked letter also claimed the king would help willing men from southern Africa to marry wives and get free houses in the kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe public is notified that this circulating notice is fake,\u201d the Eswatini government\u00a0said in a short statement posted on X (formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear who authored the fake letter which had excited plenty of social media users in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Eswatini, Africa\u2019s last absolute monarchy, has a population of about 1.2 million people.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The kingdom of Eswatini has been forced to deny reports it was offering citizenship to men from other southern African countries because of a shortage at home. A faked viral letter, pretending to be from King Mswati III, expressed concern over the \u201cscarcity of men\u201d in Eswatini. The faked letter also claimed the king would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}