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Ethiopian women gather at a community meeting in Mai Mekden, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, on Monday, Feb. 26, 2024. Once-lush fields lie barren. Mothers, faces etched with worry, watch helplessly as their children weaken from malnutrition. The Ethiopian region of Tigray is peaceful but war’s effects linger, compounded by drought and a level of aid mismanagement that caused the U.N. and the U.S. to temporarily suspend deliveries last year. (AP Photo/Amir Aman Kiyaro)

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Ethiopia's Tigray region is now peaceful, but extreme hunger afflicts its children
By AMIR AMAN KIYARO - Associated Press
Sat,03/09/24-10:06PM , 36 Reads
NEBAR HADNET, Ethiopia (AP) — The cruel realities of war and drought seem to have merged for Tinseu Hiluf, a widow living in the arid depths of Ethiopia's Tigray region who is raising four children left behind by her sister's recent death in childbirth.
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A women prays for the kidnapped LEA Primary and Secondary School students in Kuriga, Kaduna state Nigeria, Saturday, March 9, 2024. Security forces swept through large forests in Nigeria's northwest region on Friday in search of nearly 300 children who were abducted from their school a day earlier in the West African nation's latest mass kidnap which analysts and activists blamed on the failure of intelligence and slow security response. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

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Gunmen kidnap nearly 300 students in northwest Nigeria. 2 days later, some lose hope of finding them
By CHINEDU ASADU - Associated Press
Sat,03/09/24-8:55PM , 85 Reads
KURIGA, Nigeria (AP) — Rashidat Hamza is in despair. All but one of her six children are among the nearly 300 students abducted from their school in Nigeria’s northwest, riddled with Islamic extremists and armed gangs.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy smiles during a joint news conference with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan following their meeting at Dolmabahce palace in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, March 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

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Pope Francis: Ukraine should have the courage of the 'white flag,' negotiate end of war with Russia
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sat,03/09/24-2:33PM , 31 Reads
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis said in an interview that Ukraine, facing a possible defeat, should have the courage to negotiate an end to the war with Russia and not be ashamed to sit at the same table to carry out peace talks.
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Parachutes delivering desperately needed humanitarian supplies floated down towards the Gaza Strip on Saturday. (AP Video by Sam McNeil)

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Another top donor says it will resume funding the UN agency for Palestinians as Gaza hunger grows
By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS - Associated Press
Sat,03/09/24-1:05PM , 52 Reads
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Another top donor to the U.N. agency aiding Palestinians said Saturday that it would resume funding, weeks after more than a dozen countries halted hundreds of millions of dollars of support in response to Israeli allegations against the organization.
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