Africa

The hope was that if people weren't out drinking, they wouldn't be spreading the coronavirus. There were unforeseen benefits to the ban, which ended last month — and negative impacts as well.

As a young teen, Najat Hamza fled Oromia, a regional state of Ethiopia, with her father to live in America. At StoryCorps, she spoke about what it means to leave "the familiar" behind.

Psychological first aid is part of the mission of Doctors Without Borders. They hope to give those fleeing the horrors of civil unrest the tools to start moving past their trauma.

Officially, South Africa has reported 53,000 COVID-19 deaths. Scientists believe that in reality the death toll may surpass 100,000 — which has many questioning everything from faith to rationality.

South Africa banned alcohol to enforce social distancing during the worst of the pandemic, but the ban also had a surprising effect, exposing the country's complicated relationship with alcohol.

A report by historians has concluded the French government was not complicit in the Rwanda genocide of 1994 — but turned a blind eye to it and so bears overwhelming responsibility.

The effect of so much institutional hatred within the military of South Africa in the early '80s was to leave a generation traumatized, the film concludes.

Efforts to fight vaccine hesitancy among Black people often miss African immigrants who have a different colonial history and experience with Western medicine, which grassroots groups are addressing.

Rescue efforts are underway after a passenger train crashed into a vehicle on its tracks and partially derailed outside a rail tunnel in Taiwan.

The container ship Ever Given has finally been unstuck from the Suez Canal, but there will be lingering consequences to its nearly week-long blockade of the vital trade corridor.

Days of fighting in the northern port city of Palma have left dozens of civilians dead as security forces battled to turn back an assault by a suspected ISIS-linked insurgent group.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Zachary Karabell, author of Parting the Desert: The Creation of the Suez Canal, about the dream to build a waterway that would unite the East and the West.