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The global cholera vaccine stockpile is empty at a time when there are outbreaks around the world. Last year, the WHO recommended the vaccine dose be cut in half to stretch the supply.

The U.S. is "comprehensively reviewing" its relationship with Tanzania after hundreds were killed in a violent post-election crackdown.

A little-known division of Immigration and Customs Enforcement has helped track down people connected to atrocities in Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia and El Salvador.

A new study suggests humans were deliberately starting and using fires more than 400,000 years ago.

Trump's peace deal between Rwanda and Congo hasn't stopped the fighting — and now his expansive mineral deal with Kinshasa is in the balance.

Speaking at a political gathering in Beijing, China's foreign minister Wang Yi outlined his country's positions on the war in Iran and general relations with America.

Nigeria is again gripped by deadly religious violence. Friday night, a coordinated series of bomb and gun attacks ripped through the largest city in the nation's Muslim north. The attacks were claimed by a militant sect that seeks to impose Islamic law in Nigeria. Host Scott Simon speaks with NPR's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton.

Colombia has come a long way from the days of murderous drug cartels. In fact, it's now home to more than two dozen legal medical marijuana companies.

It's not just oil tankers stranded near the Strait of Hormuz. U.N. aid shipments are also hindered by the war in Iran.

The U.K., Brazil and China are stepping up as climate leaders as the incoming Trump administration picks heads for key agencies who may increase U.S. climate pollution.