Congratulations on your article "South Africa's Lonely Rebel" (World Affairs, March 4). It is time that African leaders were exposed for who they really are. Thabo Mbeki spends too much time chasing a ...

President Thabo Mbeki on Wednesday rejected mounting calls to invoke a state of emergency to enable the government to access cheap drugs to address South Africa's AIDS crisis. Declaring a state of ...

In the past has publicly questioned the connection between HIV and AIDS, minimized the seriousness of the AIDS epidemic and did not support widespread treatment or testing for AIDS. Was expelled from ...

Former South African president Thabo Mbeki looks on during the first Global Anti Apartheid Conference in Sandton last year. (Emmanuel Crosete/AFP/Getty Images) By Donald G. McNeil Jr. Donald G. McNeil ...

WASHINGTON -- South African President Thabo Mbeki again refused to link HIV with AIDS, even though he agreed "that's what the scientists say." "I don't think my personal belief is relevant to a ...

An international human rights group accused South Africa’s president of neglect in regard to the AIDS epidemic sweeping his country. New York-based Human Rights Watch urged President Thabo Mbeki to ...

An international panel appointed by President Thabo Mbeki to examine the link between HIV and Aids has completed its report, the health ministry said on Thursday. The document reached the desk of ...

Zackie Achmat, once at the center of South Africa’s push for lifesaving H.I.V. treatment, has come out of retirement as U.S. funding cuts and his own government’s inertia revive old fears. By ...

A transition to democracy in Sudan will be difficult and needs robust support from the United States and African leaders. By Alex de Waal He governed as a man distorted by the violence and oppression ...