One year after the Israel-Hamas war began, hospitals in Gaza are finding it difficult to provide even the most basic care due to the destruction of much of the country’s medical infrastructure.Al Aqsa hospital, which is supposed to service a million people, is one of the struggling facilities.
Millions of Israelis had to seek safety in bomb shelters after Iran launched dozens of missiles at Israel. Israel was attacking the terrorist organization Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran, while conducting a ground invasion of Lebanon.
Many of the 11 million displaced people living in Port Sudan, which has been spared from the violence in the country’s civil conflict, are using churches as makeshift shelters.
As part of a July agreement with the United States, Panama has begun deporting migrants who cross the dangerous Darién Gap from Colombia into Panama.
With Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the number of Ukrainian citizens seeking adoption for children has significantly increased.
As one government official cites new statistics indicating more tourists are visiting Victoria Falls, known as one of the seven natural wonders of the world, Zimbabwean authorities are hoping tourism can help revive the country’s ailing economy. Critics say that the site’s potential isn’t being realized because of the country’s poor infrastructure.
The nonprofit organization Oxfam says that the super-rich who control the global economy, known as a “global oligarchy,” are undermining world leaders as they convene in New York this week for the annual UN General Assembly. They are accused by the organization of making issues like excessive inequality and climate change worse.
The once-thriving market in Omdurman, the second-most populous city in Sudan, has been almost destroyed by the nearly 18 months of fighting. As fighting raged in the capital, Khartoum, on the other side of the Nile,VOA gained rare access to the city and met residents.Henry Wilkins reports.
In Ukraine’s Donetsk region,a volunteer group is searching for the bodies of those killed during the war with Russia. About 2,000 bodies have been recovered since 2014, according to the group Platsdarm.
One woman in Iraqi Kurdistan is trying to bring life back to her village, which was abandoned 38 years ago.