Africa

People walk among the destruction at the scene of the weekend's double car bomb attack Mogadishu, Somalia.

World News

At least 100 people were killed in the car bomb attacks in Somalia's capital

9:44am October 30, 2022

by The Associated Press

Nearly 300 people were wounded in Saturday's explosions, the country's president said. The al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group claimed responsibility, saying it targeted the education ministry.

People observe a destroyed building and vehicles at the scene of an attack in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Saturday.

World News

2 car bombs leave scores of casualties at an intersection in Somalia's capital

1:27pm October 29, 2022

by The Associated Press

One hospital worker counted at least 30 bodies. The attack came five years after a massive blast at the same location.

Momos are steamed or fried dumplings stuffed with minced meat or vegetables — a popular dish in Abdul Kareem Bhat's native Tibet. He fled after the failed uprising against China in 1959. Now living in Kashmir, Bhat says that serving the dish at his restaurant not only connects him to his roots but has "brought us closer to our Kashmiri brothers."

Health & Safety

PHOTOS: If you had to leave home and could take only 1 keepsake, what would it be?

9:33am October 29, 2022

by NPR Special Report

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.

Dr. Benjamin Black in front of the Gondama Referral Center in Sierra Leone, where he worked during the Ebola outbreak of 2014-2016. The center treated children and women in urgent need of obstetric and gynecological care. As the outbreak exploded, the center decided to stop admitting pregnant women, a decision that still weighs on Black.

A doctor's Ebola memoir is all too timely with a new outbreak in Uganda

6:29pm October 28, 2022

by Susan Brink

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.

World News

Conflict in Tigray has led to a collapse of its public health system

4:39pm October 25, 2022

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.

Senior Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif poses in December 2016 for photograph prior to recoding an episode of his talk show at a studio in Islamabad.

World News

A Pakistani journalist living in hiding was killed by police at a roadblock in Kenya

11:06am October 24, 2022

by The Associated Press

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.

Mariama Kuyateh, 30, holds up a picture of her son Musa, whose death from acute kidney failure on Oct. 10 was linked to contaminated cough syrup imported to Gambia, where they live, from India. The World Health Organization issued an alert about the medication.

Health & Safety

Contaminated cough syrup from India linked to 70 child deaths. It's happened before

1:54pm October 18, 2022

by Kamala Thiagarajan

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.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni inspects the guard of honour, during the 60th Independence Anniversary Celebrations, in Kololo, Uganda, Sunday Oct. 9, 2022.

Uganda has locked down two districts in a bid to stem the spread of Ebola

7:58am October 16, 2022

by The Associated Press

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.

Currently a master's student in social work at Temple University in Philadephia, Lavelah stocks up on supplies to bring home.

Health & Safety

'Comfort Closet' helps Liberians overcome an obstacle to delivering in a hospital

10:48am October 15, 2022

by Jason Silverstein

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.

An injured Tigray People's Liberation Front fighter who was shot in the cheek recovers after surgery at the Ayder Comprehensive Specialized Hospital in Mekele, the capital of Ethiopia's Tigray region. It's the only place in Tigray currently conducting surgery. Elsewhere, "they are stopped because there is no supply, there is no electricity, and there is no fuel," says one Tigray doctor.

'Where is humanity?' ask the helpless doctors of Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region

10:26am October 14, 2022

by Ari Daniel

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.