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Readers respond to developments in the Russia-Ukraine crisis. Also: A farewell to Jane Brody; the overlooked translator; a tribute to truckers.

Conflict and climate change ravage Syria’s agricultural heartland

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The highest-ranking U.N. official to visit Ethiopia since war began in the Tigray region in 2020 said Friday she thinks Tigrayan fighters are hopeful of ending the conflict and she senses that top government officials are not just more hopeful but making a greater effort to find peace.

In late January, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) launched a new operation into neighboring Afar state, claiming to be chasing down Eritrean-backed... 19.02.2022, Sputnik International

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. health agency says it has been granted access to send medical supplies to Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region for the first time in six months, but fuel shortages are hampering distribution.

The UN World Food Program said on Friday it is alarmed at the worsening food crisis across the Sahel region fueled by conflict, the COVID-19 pandemic, a

In her long and varied experience as a humanitarian worker in areas of conflict, Nadine Haddad has never seen anything as heart-breaking as what is ha...

The U.N. World Food Program in Malawi has halted food rations to nearly 700 refugee families, saying the families were “self-sustaining.” But many of the de-listed refugees say they rely on the monthly rations and argue the assessment process is flawed. Mapendo Neema, her seven children, and an unemployed husband have been relying on monthly…

The U.N. World Food Program in Malawi has for the first time stopped giving food rations to nearly 700 refugee families in the country’s only refugee camp citing funding limits and refugees found to be “self-sustaining.” But many of the de-listed refugees say they rely on the monthly rations and argue the assessment process is flawed. Lameck Masina reports from Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Dowa district, Malawi.

It has been a busy start to 2022 for the Edmonton Food Bank with inflation pushing more Edmontonians to need its services.