Rife with understaffed hospitals, corrupt licensing and people who claim to be doctors, the health system struggles to ...

Elon Musk, an unelected US official leading budget cuts, claims funding to contain Uganda's Ebola outbreak "accidentally" ...

Uganda’s Supreme Court in January banned the trial of civilians in military court with immediate effect. In practice, people who oppose President Yoweri Museveni remain in prison — and with even fewer ...

Argentina’s informal recycling network, once a lifeline for thousands, is unraveling as falling prices and new policies make waste-picking unsustainable. LA MATANZA, BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA — Under a ...

LA MATANZA, BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA — Envuelta en un calor sofocante, Gabriela Villalba sumerge sus manos en una montaña de residuos. Con precisión y destreza, lanza botellas, papel y cartón hacia ...

HARARE, ZIMBABWE — Batsirai Mutara started selling cheese and dairy products from a makeshift roadside stand when he was 27. It was a far cry from his former office job, where inflation devoured his ...

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One-third of the dialysis patients at the country’s National Kidney Center came for treatment after working abroad, often at jobs with grueling hours and few water or bathroom breaks in stifling heat.

HARARE, ZIMBABWE — Natasha Gwashure watches as tuberculosis ravages her 1-year-old son Anashe’s frail body. He has been ill for more than a month. Gwashure struggles to accept the diagnosis. Her only ...

Sex workers are the first to feel the effects, as mobile health clinics that offered condoms and preventative treatments disappear. HARARE, ZIMBABWE — Rumbidzai, a sex worker from the bustling ...