Eyder Peralta

A look at how the delta variant and vaccine efforts are shaping the course of the coronavirus through three places - Brazil, South Africa and Israel and the Palestinian territories.

South Africa has experienced its worst spasm of violence since the end of apartheid as supporters of former president Jacob Zuma protest his jailing on corruption charges.

Kenya has so far escaped the worst health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. But the social and economic effects have cut deep.

A civil war that began last year in the Tigray region of Ethiopia has the international community concerned as hundreds of thousands of people in the region now live in famine.

The global fight against COVID-19 is in very different stages country to country. Reporters on three continents explain the status of the pandemic in Germany, Kenya and Colombia.

Ethiopia is about to hold elections, touted as its first democratic ones, amid ethnic violence and a brutal war in the northern Tigray region.

Germany apologized to Namibia for a colonial-era slaughter of up to 80,000 people when its troops put down a tribal uprising. It offered $1.3 billion to aid in reconstruction and development.

A months-long government offensive in northern Ethiopia has displaced millions, killed thousands and fueled charges of ethnic cleansing.

The civil war in Ethiopia — which is going into its seventh month — has lead to an astonishing level of human suffering, with sexual violence being used as weapon of war.

The conflict in Ethiopia continues to rage in the northwestern part of the country, leaving a rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation.

The hope was that if people weren't out drinking, they wouldn't be spreading the coronavirus. There were unforeseen benefits to the ban, which ended last month — and negative impacts as well.

Officially, South Africa has reported 53,000 COVID-19 deaths. Scientists believe that in reality the death toll may surpass 100,000 — which has many questioning everything from faith to rationality.

South Africa banned alcohol to enforce social distancing during the worst of the pandemic, but the ban also had a surprising effect, exposing the country's complicated relationship with alcohol.

The civil strife in Ethiopia has continued unabated, killing thousands as Western governments and rights groups raise the alarm on the shocking level of violence.

The second-oldest colonial city in South Africa, Port Elizabeth, has a new name. It mixes some of the unique linguistics of the Xhosa language, yet many South Africans are struggling to pronounce it.

Magufuli had not been seen in public since the end of February, fueling speculation that he was ill. Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan announced his death on state television.

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.

More and more countries are getting shipments of vaccines and starting to inoculate their populations. But it's an unequal picture across the globe.

An activist in Uganda, who has fought an authoritarian government with vulgar poetry, is now in exile. Fleeing a broad crackdown against the opposition in the country.

People were dying of a disease that could be treated — but in poor countries, they did not have access to medicines that could help. That was the story of HIV — and now of COVID-19.