‘They can kill you’: Immigrants fear a surge in xenophobic violence in South Africa
Foreign-owned businesses have been attacked, migrants driven from their homes, and several killed. A leading xenophobic group has given all…
Inside Ebola country: NPR reports from eastern DR Congo’s outbreak zone
In eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, an Ebola outbreak is reshaping life, with fear spreading faster than information and hospitals…
Ebola cases rise in Congo, as government revives travel restrictions
The Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak is spreading at an unprecedented pace, Africa CDC warns.
South Africa rolls out game-changing HIV shot amid funding shortfalls
A new twice-yearly HIV prevention injection could transform South Africa's fight against the epidemic — but U.S. aid cuts and…
Distrust, conflict hamper Congo’s Ebola response
The epicenter of the Ebola outbreak is in Mongbwalu, a poor gold-mining town of 130,000 people, in Ituri province, in…
Attacks from residents complicate the fight against a rare type of Ebola
Three times in the past week, healthcare facilities have been attacked. On Sunday, angry young men stormed a hospital treating…
DR Congo Ebola cases rise amid distrust, armed conflict zone
Africa races to contain a fast-spreading Ebola outbreak threatening 10 countries as infections spill from eastern Congo into Uganda.