Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge celebrates after busting the elusive two-hour barrier for the marathon Saturday in Vienna. Alex Halada/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Shadrach Mugoya Levi and his wife, Naomi. Courtesy of Shadrach Mugoya Levi hide caption
Wheelchair basketball player, Malat Lueth Wei, 25, is featured in the short documentary No Limits about bringing the sport to South Sudan. Shuran Huang for NPR hide caption
Botswana has the world's largest elephant population, with some 130,000 animals. Greg Du Toit/Barcroft Images/Barcroft Media/Getty Images hide caption
Orthopedic surgeon Kebba Marenah and his team get ready to perform knee surgery on a 14-year-old at the Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital in Banjul, the capital of Gambia. The country struggles with a lack of access to sufficient pain medications. Samantha Reinders for NPR hide caption
A girl receives the Ebola vaccine in Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo. Jerome Delay/AP hide caption
Belinda Qaqamba Ka-Fassie poses at a community space where women cook and sell meat. She started drag as an escape from oppression she felt at Stellenbosch University for being "black, Xhosa, poor, queer and effeminate." "It is through pageantry and performance that I became more inclined with my queerness and how boundless expression should be," she says. "Drag became the therapist I never had." Lee-Ann Olwage hide caption
Workers sort through bundles of vanilla at the Virginia Dare warehouse in Antsirabe Nord, Madagascar. When this photo was taken last year, the warehouse contained roughly $5 million worth of vanilla. Tommy Trenchard hide caption
Military officers carry the casket of former president Robert Mugabe out of his state funeral at the National Sports Stadium in Harare. Ben Curtis/AP hide caption
Shadrack Frimpong accepts his Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award in Louisville on September 12. Stephen J. Cohen/Getty Images hide caption
Samuel Swedi, 22, is an electrical engineering student at Goma University in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He doesn't have a textbook — just whatever notes he has written in his notebook. Samantha Reinders for NPR hide caption
Robert Mugabe, shown at Zimbabwe's 34th annual independence celebrations in 2014, led the nation from its independence in 1980 until 2017. Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP hide caption
Esperance Nabintu, 42, an Ebola survivor, photographed on Aug. 15 in Goma. One of her children also contracted the disease and survived. But her husband, Rene Daniele Fataki, died from the disease. This photo was taken as friends and family gathered at her home to mourn and to celebrate his life. Samantha Reinders for NPR hide caption
Looking for scraps of lead to sell, young people in the town of Kabwe, Zambia, dig through the toxic tailings left behind from 100 years of mining. Courtesy of Pure Earth hide caption
Laborers in the sugar cane fields of Central America are experiencing a rapid and unexplained form of kidney failure. Above: Harvesting sugar cane in Chichigalpa, Nicaragua. Jason Beaubien/NPR hide caption
Whatever Happened To ... The Mysterious Kidney Disease Striking Central America?
Nelson Mandela Foundation CEO Sello Hatang points to South Africa's current flag as he welcomes a ruling against its old flag in Johannesburg Wednesday. At right is Ernst Roets, leader of the AfriForum group that was targeted in the foundation's lawsuit. Denis Farrell/AP hide caption
Protesters run from tear gas on Friday in Harare, Zimbabwe's capital. Tendai Marima for NPR hide caption
Despite the stress of Ebola, Media Joice Kashamba Emmanuela and her boyfriend, Espoir Kitumaini, dance to rumba music at Ibiza, a dance club in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. Samantha Reinders for NPR hide caption
Locusts swarm over Yemen's capital. Mohammed Huwais /AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Maybe The Way To Control Locusts Is By Growing Crops They Don't Like
Hassan Hajjaj, born in Morocco in 1961, is often called the Andy Warhol of Marrakesh for his fusion of glamour and everyday life. Both are evident in his 2017 portrait Cardi B Unity. The rap star, dressed in a high-fashion outfit, sits on utilitarian green plastic cartons against a textured fabric backdrop. The frame consists of tins of green tea, each decorated with a butterfly. Hassan Hajjaj/Courtesy of Third Line Gallery, Dubai, and Yossi Milo Gallery, New York hide caption
