2 car bombs leave scores of casualties at an intersection in Somalia's capital
One hospital worker counted at least 30 bodies. The attack came five years after a massive blast at the same location.
Africa
PHOTOS: If you had to leave home and could take only 1 keepsake, what would it be?
We asked refugees around the world to tell us of a memento they brought to connect them to their old life even as they embarked on a new and uncertain future.
A doctor's Ebola memoir is all too timely with a new outbreak in Uganda
Dr. Benjamin Black talks about Belly Woman: Birth, Blood and Ebola — the inside story of what it was like to face a terrifying epidemic in West Africa.
Conflict in Tigray has led to a collapse of its public health system
Conflict in Tigray has led to a collapse of its public health system. Physicians are having to reuse gloves, use expired medications and deny patients care because of lack of resources and power.
A Pakistani journalist living in hiding was killed by police at a roadblock in Kenya
Arshad Sharif, 50, had been in hiding since July after he fled Pakistan to avoid arrest. He had been critical of the country's military and the government of Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif.
Contaminated cough syrup from India linked to 70 child deaths. It's happened before
The World Health Organization has issued an alert about the deaths in the West African nation of Gambia. For context, we speak to the authors of The Truth Pill: The Myth of Drug Regulation in India.
Uganda has locked down two districts in a bid to stem the spread of Ebola
Ugandan authorities on Saturday imposed a travel lockdown on two Ebola-hit districts as part of efforts to stop the spread of the contagious disease.
'Comfort Closet' helps Liberians overcome an obstacle to delivering in a hospital
Public hospitals in Liberia may require a bag of supplies to gain admission for delivery: bleach, baby clothes, diapers. The $100 price tag is too much for the poor. One nurse has a solution.
'Where is humanity?' ask the helpless doctors of Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region
Civil war has blockaded the country's northern region and decimated a hospital system that serves nearly 7 million people. Without basic supplies, power and medicine, thousands are needlessly dying.
This Nigerian city has a high birth rate of twins — and no one is sure why
Twins appear to be unusually abundant in Nigeria's southwestern city of Igbo-Ora. For the past 12 years, the community has organized an annual festival to celebrate twins.