Africa

The issue migration has played a major part in the South African elections and anti-immigration rhetoric and xenophobia have been central to many political parties campaigns.

NPR's Throughline hosts Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei speak with Tshepo Moloi and Richard Stengel about Mandela’s early involvement with the African National Congress.

If you really want to know what's going on in South Africa ahead of the election there, get in a minibus taxi, the main mode of transport in the country.

South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress, face their first major electoral challenge in the election next week, and the prospect of dipping below 50% of the vote for the first time in their 30 years in power. NPR's Africa correspondent reports from their final rally in Soweto, Johannesburg.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with William O'Neill, the United Nations independent expert on Human Rights in Haiti, about the Kenyan-led multinational force deploying to Haiti to help restore order there.

The ZiG is Zimbabwe's latest currency — yet another attempt to unravel the economic catastrophes of the past decades. According to many there, it's every bit as baffling as its predecessors.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Cindy MCcain, executive director of the World Food Programme, about her current trip to Zambia, where people are enduring a severe drought and going hungry.