The world’s leading authority on food insecurity said on Thursday that the situation in Gaza had improved since famine swept parts of the Palestinian territory last year.

Sudan's paramilitary force has attacked the city of el-Obeid, killing at least 40 civilians.

The leading international authority on food crises says the “worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in Gaza" and it predicts “widespread death” without immediate action.

U.N. officials, aid groups and experts have warned for months that Palestinians in Gaza are on the brink of famine without formally declaring one.

The first Black chair of Iowa’s Democratic Party says he received a series of racist messages, including a lynching threat, after writing a newspaper op-ed criticizing former President Donald Trump and the state Republican officials who stood with him at a recent rally in Des Moines.