Swaziland, Africa

Swaziland's anticipated maize harvest this year will be double the size it was in 2007, when drought devastated the crop, but still not enough....

One in three Swazi women has suffered some form of sexual abuse as a child; one in four experienced physical violence, a new United Nations survey...

Overworked and poorly paid, volunteer caregivers in Swaziland struggling to cope with the growing numbers of bedridden patients with HIV, are faced...

The Swazi police has been accused of using excessive force and the army has been deployed for domestic policing after a rare episode of political...

Tired of being taken for granted, Swaziland's nurses have opted for industrial action after the government ignored a deadline to improve conditions...

A bloody week of the worst labour strife in a decade has exposed cracks in the Swazi government's poverty-alleviation plan of creating thousands of...

Editor, I am a Gambian, resident of Bakau Katchikally (where my compound is) and worked for the public sector in the Gambia for a minimum of 35...

The widowed Gogo (SiSwati for "granny") Thwala, 72, lives a life that relies heavily on her survival skills as she single-handedly raises three...

 Swaziland's ability to cope with its ongoing humanitarian crisis will not improve until its under-performing economy picks up, social welfare...

Not much has been known about sex workers in Swaziland, but a recent report has begun to shed some light on the sex industry in a country with the...