Africa
For decades, the Banyamulenge people of eastern Congo have found themselves foreigners in their own country. In January 2014, they met with Russ Feingold, the U.S. special envoy to the region.
Street kids are used to living from lie to lie—often penniless, some are orphans and others shunned as witches. In Kinshasa many seek refuge at ORPER where every child is considered "a jewel."
What do you when patients with an airborne infectious disease are resistant to all drugs available to them? Hospitals in South Africa have limited resources and now patients are being sent home.
At StandProud, a center for youth with physical disabilities, a 15-year old with polio learns to walk. Others play soccer for the first time.
Tuberculosis is the leading cause of death in South Africa. Drug resistance is now so strong that patients are sent home to die. However, new drugs are being made available through trials or NGOs.
Using new technologies to fight drug-resistant tuberculosis––South Africa's biggest killer.
Uganda has a sanitation crisis, and it will take innovative solutions to help this country suffering from its own waste, where only 30 percent of the population has access to improved sanitation.
More than two-thirds of Kampala's residents rely on pit latrines—and they are overflowing, spreading muck and disease. Entrepreneurs are trying to save the day, and make some money at the same time.
Aid to Kenya responds to the country's recurrent food crises but it fails to address the underlying infrastructure problems that could prevent such emergencies.
In late January 2014, Feingold led an American delegation across Congo. His goal: to help get the Congolese government to start acting like a state.
In eastern Congo, Dr. Denis Mukwege runs a hospital that treats victims of war rape. But medical treatment won't stop sexual violence, he says.
In Kampala even the most outspoken activists from the LGBT community are forced to lead double lives when their very existence is illegal.
The unlikely story of how the former Wisconsin senator made peace in Congo.