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Peter Bailey, chairman of health and safety for the National Union of Mine Workers in South Africa, discusses rescue developments at the Elandsrand gold mine in Carletonville, a town in South Africa's mining heartland near Johannesburg.

President Obama's trip to Africa comes at a time of increasing African economic growth and declining U.S. influence on the continent. To be successful, he will need to overcome a general perception that the United States has withdrawn from Africa. At the same time, he must convince an American public and private sector that getting more invested in Africa will be good for American jobs and the economy.

The Pentagon confirms it has about 800 troops operating in the Horn of Africa region as part of the war on terrorism. Meanwhile, several prisoners are released from Guantanamo Bay. Hear NPR's Eric Westervelt and David Rohde of The New York Times.

NPR's Rob Schmitz talks to Mvemba Phezo Dizolele of the Africa Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, about the U.S.-Africa summit.

The Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film is Germany's Nowhere in Africa, a fact-based story of refugees in a time of war. Now showing on U.S. screens, the movie follows a German-Jewish family that fled to Kenya in 1938 to escape the Nazis. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan offers a review.

South Africa is a case study of the inequities around the coronavirus vaccine. It has one of the world's worst outbreaks, fueled by a new variant. Yet officials are struggling to buy enough vaccines.

The life of Toto's "Africa" has perhaps reached its logical end with Max Siedentopf's absurdist art installation Toto Forever, which will play "Africa" in the Namib Desert "for all eternity."

A Wyoming-based conservationist funds a mercenary force to combat Sudanese wildlife poachers in the Central African Republic. The mercenaries have permission to shoot poachers on sight. NPR's Bob Edwards reports.

Pope Francis this week heads to Africa to visit Mozambique, Madagascar and Mauritius. He will focus on environmental and political issues — as well as spiritual.

South Africa's parliament on Tuesday holds a no-confidence vote against President Jacob Zuma over allegations of corruption and mismanagement of the economy. Zuma has been president since 2009.