An estimated 20 million people in southern Africa are facing what the United Nations calls”acute hunger” as one of the worst droughts in more than four decades shrivels crops, decimates livestock and, after years of rising food prices brought on by pandemic and war, spikes the price of corn, the region’s staple crop. Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe have all declared…
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Hero at 35,000 Feet: How a Ugandan Doctor Saved a Life on a Turkish Airlines Flight
By Dr. Kivumbi Earnest Benjamin, L.H.D. (Hon.) At cruising altitude, with passengers asleep and the hum of jet engines filling the cabin, few expect a medical emergency to unfold. But on Friday aboard Turkish Airlines Flight TK585 from Istanbul to Mauritania, fate intervened — and so did an Ugandan doctor. When the cabin crew’s voice…
