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NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Rachel Chason, West Africa bureau chief for The Washington Post, about the coup unfolding in Burkina Faso — the second in the country in eight months.

Five African teams qualified for the World Cup. They have the talent, but when will an African side win the gold trophy?

Gunmen stormed a hotel in Mali, killing more than 10 people. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Geoff Porter, President of North Africa Risk Consulting, about who has taken responsibility for the attack.

Extreme weather is costing developing countries billions of dollars in damage. So they're seeking compensation from wealthier countries that have done the most to cause climate change.

FEWS NET, the U.S. early warning system for famine, shut down after the foreign aid freeze. What are the consequences? And why does the U.S. has a famine early warning system in the first place?

One of the world's most active volcanoes is erupting again. Piton de la Fournaise in the Indian Ocean on the French island of Reunion began spewing lava from one of its four craters on Wednesday.

The ice that covers the Arctic Ocean is shrinking as the climate gets hotter. Scientists are finding it could be linked to weather that's helping fuel disasters.

Residents begin returning to Gulf Shores, Ala., where Hurricane Ivan made landfall Thursday night as a Category 3 storm. The area suffered damage from wind and floods as the ocean surged more than a mile inland. NPR's Adam Hochberg reports.

It began as a conversation over a beer. Now, a collaboration between musicians across the Nile basin has expanded to concert tours, albums and courses at universities in the U.S. and East Africa.

Some 30,000 African elephants die each year as a result of poaching. Journalist Bryan Christy wanted to see where their tusks were going, so he ordered fake tusks and fitted them with trackers.