Marc Silver

When he was 11 years old, Soumana Saley had never been to school — but he knew what he wanted to do with his life.

The chef and television host has died at age 61. NPR's West Africa correspondent Ofeibea Quist-Arcton remembers her meal with him in the open-air market of Senegal, filmed for his TV show.

Leah Feldman was on the Doctors Without Borders team in the 2014 outbreak. Now she's helping fight the virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo — and literally sweating in her boots.

She goes door-to-door in her village in Kenya. She is paid next to nothing. It's a tough job. And she loves it.

The winners of the 2018 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship share surprising lessons on life, leadership and gender in the workplace.

They were about 100 feet above the ground. They had been there for hours. And they didn't know how to get down. Operation Goat Rescue begins!

There can be unintended consequences when doctors and med students volunteer to improve local health care. A new position paper offers up ethical guidance.

"This is my last year in concert," Aretha Franklin said earlier this year. For a fan who has seen her more than a dozen times, this meant one last chance to witness the queen of soul in person.

For an upcoming series of stories, we'd like to explore the world of taboos. And we welcome your suggestions.

Carl Manlan and his wife started their family in Switzerland. It's a great place to raise kids, he says. So why did they decide to move back to their native Africa?

Goats eat a lot of argan tree fruit. But its seeds are big. A study looks at the manner of expulsion: poop or spit. And yes, it does matter when it comes to new tree growth.

The world is riveted by the ongoing refugee crisis. Less so by the ongoing — and much larger — internally displaced persons crisis.

It all started when a school was demolished — for reasons not entirely clear — over the weekend in Nairobi.

Raj Panjabi must use the award "to solve a timely, pressing problem." Here's what he plans to do.

Hundreds of thousands of refugees have fled the civil war in South Sudan and resettled in Uganda. This 12-minute documentary shows the daily struggle to get water.

Dr. Hussam Jefee-Bahloul writes poems to capture his longing for his troubled homeland.

It's complicated to confirm a death. But a new study gives a minimum number of health workers who've been killed since the war began six years ago.

This week, armed men ambushed and killed the field workers in Afghanistan. Two others are missing. So far, no one knows who did it — or what the motive was.

Three master chefs created a special candy 'to raise awareness on food waste and hunger' and served it at Davos, where the intellectual elite meet to ponder the world's problems.

Kennedy Odede was living on the streets, getting into fights. He was looking for hope. And he found it in the story of Martin Luther King Jr.