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The extravagance of King Mswati III, who has given his 13 wives palaces and BMWs, is spurring protests.

In some measure, it was the failure of Swaziland to recognize the disease that gave it the worlds highest prevalence of H.I.V.

AIDS has slipped back in our consciousness because once more the primary victims are marginalized people this time, Africans.

Southern Africa is becoming the land of orphans, kids like Nomzamo Ngubeni, a fifth grader who is now the head of her household.

Swaziland's absolute monarchy has accused 13 members of a banned opposition party of firebombing government targets this year as part of a terrorism campaign.

Malawi is the epicenter of Africa's second hunger crisis in five months, and the world has responded with painful slowness.

What happens to a society when its fulcrum - its mothers and fathers, teachers, nurses, farm workers - die in their prime?

Swaziland's highest court reopened two years after the six judges resigned to protest the monarchy's refusal to abide by a ruling.

U.S. Customs officials detained the police commissioner of Swaziland in Atlanta for several hours because he lacked the proper transit visa.

Africa is getting poorer and hungrier as life expectancy continues its steep decline in the countries hardest hit by the AIDS pandemic.

A shortfall of international aid has forced the World Food Program to halve the food ration for 2.6 million malnourished people in Zimbabwe.

Friday was an especially bad day in what has not been a good 12 months for King Mswati III's extravagant and autocratic style of rule.

Labor unions are angry that the summit meeting is being held in Swaziland, where the royal government has outlawed political opposition parties for the past 30 years.

Despite a bumper crop of grain and plentiful rains this harvest season, food shortages remain a serious problem in large pockets of southern Africa.

Animal and elephant welfare groups say a journey to two zoos in the United States for 11 orphaned elephants in Africa is unnecessary.