Burundian refugee Richard Samuel, 14, holds his homemade guitar as he waits to be transferred to Nyarugusu refugee camp in Tanzania in 2015. Daniel Hayduk/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Some images from Goats and Soda's top stories of 2018. From left: changing the way we sit to fix back pain; is sleeping with your baby dangerous?; men walk near the site where the body of an 8-year-old girl, who was raped and murdered, was found. From left: Lily Padula for NPR; Fabio Consoli for NPR; Channi Anand/AP hide caption
Sarita Chaudry is a first-grade teacher but she does not lead a fully independent life. Patrick Drown/IWMI hide caption
French President Emmanuel Macron speaks a Press conference after a meeting of European Union leaders at the Chancellery on June 29, 2017 in Berlin, Germany. Michele Tantussi/Getty Images hide caption
Maria Nalubega holds her three-week-old baby daughter. Andrew Ojala, Jhpiego Uganda hide caption
Students march during the celebration of Ghana's 60 years of independence on March 6 in Accra. Cristina Aldehuela/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
On May 24, George Mwinnyaa graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a bachelor's degree in public health. Courtesy of Johns Hopkins University hide caption
Bertha Ngumbi, mother of five children who are all now grown, at her farm in Kenya. She's sifting through beans to get rid of bad ones and stones. The cows' and goats' houses are behind her. Courtesy Esther Ngumbi hide caption
After Sulley Muntari (right) heard racial slurs from fans during a match in Sardinia, Italy, on April 30, he protested — and got a yellow card from the referee. A supporter holds the card aloft. Enrico Locci/Getty Images hide caption
Some 2,000 Rohingya refugee families live in the Balukhali camp in southern Bangladesh, according to the camp's leader. Michael Sullivan/for NPR hide caption
Children frolic at a plaza with a fountain in Managua. INTI OCON/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
In an ad targeting female athletes in the Middle East, Nike asks "What will they say about you?" Screengrab by NPR/Nike Women hide caption
From left: A scene from the video of a car crash test; illustration of a mosquito transmitting the Zika virus; a menstrual shed in Nepal. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety/YouTube; BSIP/UIG via Getty Images; Poulomi Basu/Magnum Emergency Fund hide caption
The author, far right in both photos, and some of his siblings in 1980 and in 2015. Courtesy of Edward Mabaya hide caption