The movie "On Becoming a Guinea Fowl" is set in Zambia and deals in grief and dark family secrets. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to director Rungano Nyoni and actor Susan Chardy about the movie.

COVID-19 was declared a pandemic 5 years ago this week. We ask 3 people who shared their experiences in our series "Outbreak Voices" about how they think of those years today.

A new report describes the Sahel region of Africa, a million mile band that runs through Mauritania to Sudan, as "the epicenter of global terrorism." We examine those findings.

Trump has pulled the rug out from under NATO and Ukraine, positioning French president Emmanuel Macron as the Free World’s ...

AROUND 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers face encirclement having been left trapped and fighting blind in Russia. Kyiv has frantically fought to maintain its position in the occupied Kursk region to serve ...

North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Un was grinning when he visited the shipyards where a new threat is under construction: a ...