Each year in America, thousands of people lose their lives to an epidemic that's only been getting worse. Since 1999, more than half a million people have died from overdoses involving opioids. The war in eastern Congo is complex and seems like it's been going on forever. There's no way the Great Lakes region can prosper so long as there is panakui in the east of Congo.
Our correspondent reports from
eastern Congo, where a three-decade-long conflict has killed thousands, and forced more than five million people from their homes--with no end in sight. Researchers are searching for better
analgesics: ones that reduce pain without the risk of addiction or corollary physiological damage. And a contest in southern Alaska to select the internet’s favourite
fat bear.