{"id":1592,"date":"2025-08-19T10:21:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T08:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swazidailynews.com\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2025-08-19T10:21:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T08:21:20","slug":"king-witnesses-inaugural-madagascar-motorway-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genesisekucalenimedia.com\/edn\/1592\/business\/king-witnesses-inaugural-madagascar-motorway-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"King witnesses inaugural Madagascar motorway launch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By King\u2019s Office Correspondents<\/p>\n<p>His Majesty King Mswati III and Inkhosikati LaMatsebula attended the inaugural launch of Madagascar\u2019s first motorway. Launching the 260km road project was Madagascar President and SADC Chairperson Andry Rajoelina on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Other leaders who joined His Majesty the King included Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Lesotho Prime Minister Sam Matekane and SADC Executive Secretary Elias Magosi.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1598 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/genesisekucalenimedia.com\/edn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/5Y8A9989-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1031\" height=\"687\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The project was constructed by Egyptian African Arab for Development and Samcrete Engineers and Contractors.<\/p>\n<p>The King and the other leaders were taken on a drive along the motorway in 10 electric buses led by President Rajoelina before concluding the 45th Ordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government.<\/p>\n<p>From Madagascar, His Majesty and his delegation proceeded to Japan for the 9th TICAD meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By King\u2019s Office Correspondents His Majesty King Mswati III and Inkhosikati LaMatsebula attended the inaugural launch of Madagascar\u2019s&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,21,22,24,25,26,59],"tags":[46,55,73,49,58,86],"class_list":["post-1592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-africa","category-business","category-eswatini-daily-news","category-future","category-national","category-swaziland","category-technology","tag-africa","tag-business","tag-eswatini","tag-human-interest","tag-national","tag-sadc","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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