World Food Programme scales up operations to deliver aid in famine-hit Sudan

Displaced people living in Sudan’s North Darfur state cheer at the arrival of the first convoy of food and supplies in months, but the glimmer of hope is still vastly short of what’s needed. Also, Namibia heads into general elections, with the ruling party SWAPO facing stiffer than ever competition amid popular frustration over disparities. Plus we head to the Gambia, which plans to reduce plastic waste by 86 percent over the next 10 years. But some fear economic fallout for the poorest.