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

President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe prevented the opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai from attending power-sharing talks by refusing to give him a passport.

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.

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

United Nations World Food Program halves food ration for 2.6 million malnourished people in Zimbabwe, citing shortfall of international aid; aid officials say supplies of some staples will competely run out early in Jan; say shortages could soon extend to five other southern African countries, where combination of drought and insufficient donations threatens to worsen hunger problems; World Food Program is trying to feed 6.5 million hungry people in Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Lesotho...

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