As the suns sets, a group of youngsters have come out to an improvised football pitch to start their routine training. They come from a village located just outside the Mlilwane Wildlife Sanctuary in the Kingdom of Swaziland, 16 kilometres south-east of its capital city Mbabane. Like many African countries, the population of Swaziland is among the world’s youngest. A landlocked country half the size of The Netherlands, it finds itself squeezed between South-Africa and Mozambique. Swaziland has the highest HIV prevalence in the world at 26 percent and is known for its acceptance of polygamy. The king, currently Mswati III, assumedly has around 16 wives though the exact numbers are hard to verify.
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