Swaziland is near financial collapse --
Swaziland, one of Africa's poorest countries and its last absolute monarchy, was near financial collapse, with a budget deficit of 14.3 percent of gross domestic product and rapidly dwindling foreign reserves, the International Monetary Fund said in a report released on Wednesday.
Swaziland is bracing for mass protests on Tuesday against King Mswati III, Africa's last absolute monarch, but so far sub-Saharan countries have failed to replicate uprisings in the Arab world.