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NPR speaks with U.S. Special Envoy for Food Security Cary Fowler about the first shipments of Ukrainian grain to arrive in East Africa since Russia invaded Ukraine.

A week after a powerful cyclone tore across southeast Africa, the death toll is still uncertain and could rise. Aid workers are trying to reach submerged villages which lack drinking water and food.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Chedino Rodriguez Martin, the first winner of the Miss Trans Africa pageant.

Cameroon has officially rolled out the first malaria vaccine approved for routine vaccination, targeting children 6 months and older. It reduces severe disease by 30% among young kids.

Researchers in South Africa have found that people infected with omicron, on average, are less likely to end up in the hospital. But the variant may act differently here in the U.S.

South Africa has registered over 1.5 million cases of COVID-19 — one of the worst-affected countries in the world. Cases are now down, restrictions have eased and South Africans are looking forward.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with writer Véronique Tadjo about her book, In The Company of Men. It's a novel about the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, first published in French in 2017.

Israel presents its rebuttal to the charge of genocide it faces in Gaza at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

East Africa has rewritten marathon history as Sabastian Sawe produced a stunning breakthrough at the London Marathon, redefining what was thought possible over the marathon distance.

For most contestants, competing in Miss Calendar Girl, a pageant for LGBTQ South Africans, regardless of whether they've transitioned, is about being seen and heard.