Frail Mandela Lays to Rest Son Who Died of AIDS
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QUNU, South Africa  - A frail-looking Nelson  Mandela buried his last son in a remote South African field on  Saturday, wearing a red AIDS ribbon to symbolize the fight  against the disease that killed him a week ago.
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South African playwright Gibson  Kente, the founding father of black township theater who  announced he had HIV/AIDS last year, died in Soweto on Sunday.  He was 72.
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South Africa's veteran Zulu leader Mangosutho Buthelezi, who has lost two children to AIDS, says the pandemic-blighted continent should stop sweeping the disease under the carpet.
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President Yoweri Museveni yesterday joined the Orthodox community to mourn the death of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa.
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South Africa's Nelson Mandela, one  of Africa's most committed campaigners in the battle against  AIDS, announced that his only surviving son had succumbed to  the disease Thursday.
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SOWETO, South Africa  - Daphney Makhubela had to wait over 20 years to bury her brother Schoeman Ramokgopa, who never said goodbye before leaving South Africa in the 1970s to train as a soldier in the anti-apartheid movement.
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A public funeral for murdered South African reggae star Lucky Dube is held at his farm in KwaZulu-Natal.
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African television and radio   stations are planning an on-air campaign to build hope in the   face of the AIDS pandemic, in a bid to raise spirits on the   worst-hit continent where millions have died from the disease.
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A funeral is held for Beyers Naude, an Afrikaner who became a leading anti-apartheid campaigner.
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The only surviving son of former  South African President Nelson Mandela died on Thursday in  Johannesburg following an undisclosed illness, a hospital  official said.
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A terminally-ill baby who died after life-saving treatment was withheld by  the High Court is being buried.
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A greatest hits album by late South African singer Brenda Fassie will help Nelson Mandela's Aids project.
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Geneva - Children with HIV and Aids are dying needlessly because of a lack of suitable drugs and the high cost of medicines adapted to their needs, the humanitarian organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Tuesday.
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EKA, India  - Sitting on a wooden bench under a   slowly whirring fan, 43-year-old Prempal says he urgently needs   anti-retroviral drugs to fight the HIV illness in his body.
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Benazir Bhutto was  laid to rest next to her father in the family mausoleum on  Friday after the opposition leader's assassination plunged  Pakistan into crisis and triggered violent protests.
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Five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death for allegedly infecting more than 400 Libyan children with HIV-contaminated blood will be spared, the son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi said Thursday.
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ST PETERSBURG, Russia  - The mother of Russia's   last tsar, forced into exile by the Bolshevik revolution, was   to be laid to rest next to her family on Thursday, as Russia   tries to make peace with its dark past.