Nelson Mdlovu strides out of the small clinic with a spring in his step and a smile on his lips just minutes after being circumcised.

Swaziland’s government banned independent civil rights groups from meeting later this week, saying Tuesday that the gathering could be destabilizing for Africa’s last absolute monarchy.

Officials say at least 89 people have died in wildfires sweeping through Mozambique, South Africa and Swaziland.

Swaziland was marking the 40th birthday of its king and its independence from Britain in a lavish ceremony.

Swaziland and its king are throwing a joint 40th birthday bash this weekend, but the mood is far from celebratory in this small southern African land of paupers and princes, mud huts and palaces.

South Africa’s health minister took another controversial foray into the AIDS debate Thursday by questioning international medical studies that say circumcision helps reduce HIV infections in men.Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, who frequently clashes with...

Taiwan’s ties with its ally Malawi were shaky Friday after the African country snubbed the island’s top diplomat in an aborted visit to the African nation aimed at persuading it to resist diplomatic wooing by China.Taiwanese Foreign Minister James...

On a back street in one of Antananarivo’s seedier neighborhoods, Saholy clutches at the hood of her blue jacket, pulling it down against the light rain. She steels herself for more verbal abuse from her fellow street walkers plying their trade on the...

Old drugs. Outdated tests. Empty promises. New threats. Such is the bleak reality surrounding an international tuberculosis conference opening Thursday in a city scarred by a killer combination of TB and AIDS: an already nightmarish scenario worsened by...

Buoyed by progress in its nuclear standoff, reclusive North Korea has begun reaching out to the world beyond its closed borders, forging formal relations with a series of countries and sending high-level delegations overseas.The communist nation has...