Egypt Agrees To Deport U.S. Citizen Sentenced For Protests
In April, Mohamed Soltan, 27, was sentenced to life in prison for his ties to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. He had been on a more than year-long hunger strike.
Africa
New Jersey Lassa Fever Death Reveals Holes In Ebola Monitoring System
Back from a Liberia trip, the patient developed Ebola-like symptoms. One hospital sent him home. A few days later he ended up in an Ebola isolation ward and died. What went wrong?
A Toilet In Every Home: Zambians Celebrate Sanitation Milestone
Answering the call of nature in the open is all too common when families don't have other options. But now the country has its first zone that's free of open defecation.
Blind Waiters Give Diners A Taste Of 'Dinner In The Dark' In Kenya
It's a worldwide chain that lets "the blind become our eyes." But there's a difference in the new Nairobi branch: The servers themselves had never eaten in a restaurant before.
Illegal Migration From Africa Is Now An Industry, Ethnographer Says
Renee Montagne talks to Ruben Andersson, who studies West African migrants trying to reach Europe. He says most efforts to control clandestine migration will only make the situation worse.
It's Been A Hard 12-Step Road For Zanzibar's Heroin Addicts
An island off the coast of Tanzania has one of the world's highest addiction rates. But the majority of its people, who are Muslims, are uneasy with the 12-step recovery program's Christian concepts.
How Worried Should We Be About Lassa Fever?
The tropical virus has killed a man who returned to New Jersey from Liberia this month. But chances that he could have spread the disease are remote.
New Mothers Get A New Kind Of Care In Rural Nigeria
Local clinics may have "no staff and no stuff." Big hospitals are hard to reach. But when community health workers come to live in a village, there's a change for the better.
World Health Organization Considers Measures To Quicken Outbreak Response
The consensus is that the World Health Organization's performance on Ebola was miserable. At the agency's annual meeting, the WHO is set to adopt reforms to make sure what happened with Ebola doesn't happen again.
An Island Wonders: Why Are The Sharks Attacking So Often?
Since 2011, the Indian Ocean island of Reunion has had 16 shark attacks, seven of them fatal. It's a sharp rise from previous years; Australia is the only country with more deaths during this span.