LONDON/ GENEVA( Reuters)-The United Nations World Food Programme( WFP) said on Tuesday it had suspended some food aid in South Sudan due to a funding shortage-heightening the risk of starvation for 1.7 million people. The move to suspend aid to almost a third of the 6.2 million people in South Sudan the WFP had planned to assist this year comes as global food prices soar amid the Russia-Ukraine war, leaving humanitarian agencies with funding shortfalls. Climate change is also exacerbating the si

In an apparent coup Tuesday, the Mali president and prime minister have been detained by mutinied soldiers who surrounded the presidential residence and fired shots into the air. The arrests followed months of protests calling for President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita to step down. The rebellion began after soldiers mutinied in the Kati army base, located outside the capitol city of Bamako, stealing weapons from the base’s armory and then detaining senior military officials, the Associated Press repo

The elephant was alone and dehydrated when villagers first found her.... But with the help of people in and around Boromo, international conservationists and her best friend, a black-and-white sheep named Whisty, the scrappy elephant is now about 4 years old and thriving.... Children at a nearby school named her Nania, or “ will.” Getting Nania from elephant infancy to elephant childhood has meant round-the-clock work for the people involved....