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The icon who became South Africa's first black president died after a prolonged lung infection.

South African scientists say the omicron variant is the most contagious to hit the country, but is causing fewer severe cases than other variants.

House Democrats have unveiled their allegations. After it finalizes the articles, the Judiciary Committee is expected to send them to the full House for a vote on whether to impeach.

NPR's Brenda Wilson reports from the International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa on advancements in caring for newborn babies infected with HIV.

NPR's Melissa Block reports on the first day of defense testimony in the trial of four men accused in the U.S. embassy bombings in Africa.

The decision by United Methodists to reaffirm a traditional stand on homosexuality and marriage leaves the church's future unclear.

Tamara Keith has been a White House correspondent for NPR since 2014 and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast, the top political news podcast in America. Keith has chronicled the Trump administration from day one, putting this unorthodox presidency in context for NPR listeners, from early morning tweets to executive orders and investigations. She covered the final two years of the Obama presidency, and during the 2016 presidential campaign she was assigned to cover Hillary Clinton. In 2018, Keith was elected to serve on the board of the White House Correspondents' Association.

Patrick Awuah left a career at Microsoft to chase a dream: to found a liberal arts college in his native Ghana. He believes that better education will foster better leaders in Africa.

Several factors help determine whether a given earthquake will generate a dangerous tsunami, but the process is not yet fully understood.

NPR's David Folkenflik talks with Fatima Hassan, founder and director of the Health Justice Initiative in South Africa, about the omicron variant and inequity in the global vaccination campaign.