Search results for

Twenty years after Live Aid, Geldof launches another group of international concerts aimed at fighting famine in Africa. The musician and activist recently announced plans for concerts to be held on July 2, in five countries.

Among developing countries, Thailand is second only to Brazil when it comes providing universal access to AIDS drugs. One Thai woman, Krisana Kraisintu, took on government officials and multinational pharmaceuticals to make this drug availability possible. Now she's setting her sights on Africa's AIDS crisis. NPR's Richard Knox reports.

Wildlife activist and filmmaker Joan Root was murdered in 2006 at her home in Nairobi, Kenya, when invaders broke through her bedroom window and shot her with AK-47s. The crime was never solved, but her life and violent death is the subject of a new book, Wildflower: An Extraordinary Life and Untimely Death in Africa.

When Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was an infant, her family was told she would become a great woman. But assuring words, unfortunately, were not enough to shield Africa's first woman president from a life of hardship, which included an abusive marriage.

Presidential elections will be held Saturday in Zimbabwe. President Robert Mugabe faces his toughest opposition during his 28 years in power as Zimbabwe, once among the most prosperous countries in Africa, is in economic chaos. With inflation at 100,000 percent, a loaf of bread costs millions of Zimbabwean dollars.

After hitting the symbolic $100 a barrel mark, oil prices slipped back a bit. Still, pressures pushing oil prices to all-time highs remain: soaring demand from China and India, a weak dollar, and political tensions in both the Middle East and Africa, which are big oil producers.

The seafood industry has some well-publicized problems: from overfishing to contaminants that make their way into fish. Now, a handful of startups aim to offer a "clean" alternative grown from cells.

Climate change is heating oceans faster than the world's coral reefs can handle. So scientists are breeding corals that can withstand hotter temperatures – but only to a point.

Cases of Ebola continue to mount in West Africa in the largest outbreak of the disease ever recorded. Public health officials are concerned the viral disease could spread farther.

The guitar legend recorded 49 songs in 10 days for his latest album, Africa Speaks.