March 17, 20248:06 AM ET
Tom Perriello, U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan, talks with NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe about his efforts to help broker peace talks in Sudan and the current state of affairs there.
March 12, 20245:00 AM ET
Enlarge this imageJuniper forests and orchards planted by the Berber people frame the lower Toubkal valley in Morocco. Even in winter, the trees are full of songbirds.
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Juniper forests and orchards planted by the Berber people frame the lower Toubkal valley in Morocco. Even in winter, the trees are full of songbirds.
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HIGH ATLAS MOUNTAINS, Morocco — When we set off on foot from a tiny mountain town called Imlil, it was still early, the sky purple. The peaks towering above the valley were just visible in the dim light, with rocks and crag outlined in sharp blue shadows.
The High Atlas Mountains run roughly east to west through central Morocco. They’re some of the wildest, most remote places in North Africa. I first glimpsed these soaring, snowcapped summits nearly 40 years ago.
In the 1980s, I was little more than a hippie kid hanging out in the nearby city of Marrakesh,..
March 11, 20246:28 PM ET
The High Atlas Mountains run east to west across central Morocco. They’re some of the wildest, most remote places in North Africa. Here’s an audio postcard from a trek in the area.
March 11, 20245:18 PM ET
When Russia launched its full scale invasion of Ukraine two years ago, the U.S. and western allies froze $300 billion dollars worth of Russian assets. Now the U.S. wants to send that money to Ukraine, but many European countries don’t agree with that plan.
And we take a trip to the wild, remote High Atlas Mountains in Morocco.
March 9, 20248:46 AM ET
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It’s the day after International Women’s Day. On March 8 each year, the United Nations declares a special day to pay tribute to the accomplishments of women, to express how much they are valued and to press for gender equality.
The Picture Show Photos from demonstrations around the world on International Women’s DayIn the wake of the celebrations and demonstrations held on this day, life goes on for women around the world. We interviewed women in Kibera, the Nairobi neighborhood that locals refer to as the largest “slum” in Kenya, to get a glimpse of their routines, their challenges, their sources of joy and strength. Their lives are a reminder of the challenges women face — and how they persevere.
Stellah Kamene: ‘I have been able to manage day-to-day activities of raising my 6-year-old son alone’Stellah Kamene, a 28-year-old single mother, is feeling good because of the U.N. day that ju..
March 9, 20247:59 AM ET
NPR’s Scott Simon speaks to Alexis Akwagyiram from the Semafor news website about the mass kidnapping of young students from a school in northwest Nigeria.
March 8, 20245:12 PM ET
Enlarge this imageGunmen attacked a school in Nigeria’s northwest region Thursday morning and abducted between 200 and 300 students, according to authorities, marking the second mass abduction in the West African nation in less than a week.
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Gunmen attacked a school in Nigeria’s northwest region Thursday morning and abducted between 200 and 300 students, according to authorities, marking the second mass abduction in the West African nation in less than a week.
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JOHANNESBURG — Nigerian security forces are searching for more than 200 children abducted from their school by gunmen on motorcycles Thursday, in the latest mass kidnapping to hit Nigeria.
Officials and witnesses have given varying figures of the number of students taken from the school in Kuriga, a town in northwestern Nigeria, with between 200 and 300 children reported to be missing, some of them as young as 8 years old.
It was the second such abdu..
March 8, 20244:10 PM ET
Enlarge this imageSyrian medics launched a vaccination campaign in the northwestern Idlib province in early 2023. Such campaigns depend on the global cholera vaccine stockpile, which is currently empty.
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Syrian medics launched a vaccination campaign in the northwestern Idlib province in early 2023. Such campaigns depend on the global cholera vaccine stockpile, which is currently empty.
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The ancient disease of cholera is making a comeback in 2024 – but the world’s supply of vaccines can’t keep up.
The global stockpile of cholera vaccines is empty. There are no doses in reserve. And while the vaccine manufacturer is churning out 700,000 doses a week, all those vials are going directly to active outbreaks.
“The demand is four times more than the supply,” said Daniela Garone, the international medical coordina..
March 7, 20246:08 PM ET
The Oscar-nominated documentary Bobi Wine: The People’s President is the gripping story of Ugandan singer Bobi Wine and his campaign against the country’s long-standing president.
February 12, 20245:00 AM ET
Enlarge this imageA wooden boat was spotted at night in international waters north of Libya by Doctors Without Borders’ rescue team aboard the MV Geo Barents.
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A wooden boat was spotted at night in international waters north of Libya by Doctors Without Borders’ rescue team aboard the MV Geo Barents.
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ABOARD A SHIP ON THE MEDITERRANEAN — It’s 2 a.m. and the team on the MV Geo Barents rescue ship has just spotted a boat in distress.
The migrants on board the small wooden fishing vessel are waving the light of their cellphone screens to attract attention after the boat’s engine cut out. They’ve been drifting for hours in the pitch black, hundreds of miles offshore in the Mediterranean Sea.
When the rescuers from Doctors Without Borders reach them, they find 162 people, 29 of them children, so tightly packed into the vessel that many can only..