LOBAMBA, Swaziland—It's fast approaching dusk at the Ludzidzini Royal Compound when King Mswati III makes his long-awaited entrance. For hours, the royal stadium has been a spectacle of song and dance ...

The bishop of the small, southern African kingdom of Swaziland has called for prayer and reflection in response to a road accident that killed as many as 65 young girls preparing for the country's ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - At least 38 young women have died in a road accident in Swaziland on their way to an annual ceremony where the king might have chosen one of them as his wife, an advocacy ...

Nomcebo Maseko and Nothando Mdiniso from the Izintombi Zothingo Lenkosazane maidens group in Wesselton, do a traditional dance as they prepare for the reed ceremony. The Izintombi Zothingo Lenkosazane ...

JOHANNESBURG – At least 38 girls and young women were killed in a crash while travelling to Swaziland's most famous traditional festival, a rights group said on Saturday. An additional 20 others were ...

The foreign policy advisers of America’s leading Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, have said that if elected president, the billionaire’s first visit to Africa will be for the annual ...

In the week of Swaziland’s annual Reed Dance, tens of thousands of virgin girls trek across the southern African kingdom to the Queen Mother’s royal residence, Ludzidzini. On the banks of the Little ...

The presence of 30,000 Swazi "maidens" demonstrating their allegiance to the queen mother this year at the annual Reed Dance, was an opportunity not to be missed for NGOs trying to promote messages of ...

LOBAMBA, Swaziland – It hasn’t been an easy year for Africa’s last absolute monarch, King Mswati III of Swaziland. Labor unions and student groups have been clamoring for democratic reform. One of his ...