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EXCLUSIVE: MTV Documentary Films is adding Skye Fitzgerald’s Hunger Ward to its portfolio of Oscar-contending films.

The virtual map on the website of the International Medical Corps shows where the emergency relief agency has provided aid since its founding in 1984: Zimbabwe, Yemen, Syria and Venezuela — to name but a few. Now, IMC, which counts J.J.

Abeer, one of the main subjects of Skye Fitzgerald’s short documentary Hunger Ward, is as pretty as a fairytale princess, with eloquent brown eyes and a smile—when it appears—to melt the heart.

Christopher Vourlias Wild Bunch TV is set to launch three new series, “Crisis Unit,” “Fragile” and “We Are Now,” at MIPCOM and the Mercato Internazionale Audiovisivo (MIA) in Rome.Created and directed by Jacob Berger, “Crisis Unit” is a political thriller set in the murky underworld of the humanitarian industry in Yemen.

The pandemic is proving to be harmful to women around the world and Angelina Jolie is fighting to change that.

Angelina Jolie made an “extremely generous” donation to two 6-year-old boys who set up a lemonade stand fundraiser for Yemen amid its humanitarian crisis. Although Jolie, 45, never visited Ayaan Moosa and Mikaeel Ishaaq’s stand in London, England, she still showed her support.

Angelina Jolie has always been heavily invested in her philanthropy over the years where she's not only opened up about issues close to her heart but has also let her actions do the talking. This time, the 45-year-old actress helped two young boys from London, Ayaan Moosa and Mikaeel Ishaaq, in their thoughtful gesture to raise funds to help the humanitarian crisis in war-torn Yemen by setting up a lemonade stand.

Angelina Jolie is continuing to do good.

Angelina Jolie is celebrating two young boys’ Yemen relief efforts.

Angelina Jolie has sent a donation to two six-year-old boys who opened a lemonade stand in London. The 'Maleficent' actress read about the efforts of friends Ayaan Moosa and Mikaeel Ishaaq, who have raised more than £37,000 this summer for children in Yemen, on the BBC News website and sent them a note explaining she was sorry she couldn't purchase one of their drinks, but still wanted to help.

Angelina Jolie donated to a fundraiser called "Lemonade for Yemen-Aid," organized by two boys in the United Kingdom to raise money for the Yemen Crisis Appeal.Per the Ilford Recorder, Ayaan Moosa and Mikaeel Ishaaq were surprised when Jolie heard about the lemonade stand they'd created and sent them a personal note. The lemonade stand went viral after the BBC reported on the charity endeavor.

Mackenzie Nichols Staff WriterSpin Film and Vulcan Productions announced on Wednesday that Oscar-nominated director Skye Fitzgerald is in the last stages of post-production on “Hunger Ward,” a short documentary about the war in Yemen.“Hunger Ward,” filmed in Yemen in early 2020, follows two female health care workers, Dr. Aida Alsadeeq and Nurse Mekkia Mahdi, who are fighting in opposition of widespread starvation in the country.

39 people from Vietnam found dead in a refrigerated lorry last October.Families try to enter the UK without a visa from poor and war-torn parts of the world such as from Yemen and Iraq, in the hope that they can make a better life in the UK rather than in their homelands.Many claim asylum - where you can only apply once you have left your country and are unable to go back over fear of persecution.When picked up at the Channel, UK Border Force would usually take them to detention centres before

2 min read A blogger, born in Yemen but now an undocumented immigrant in Saudi Arabia, has been convicted and sentenced to 10 months in prison after he tweeted that there should be equal rights for everyone – including the LGBTQ community.

Little Mix star Jade Thirlwall has opened up on “avoiding” discussing her race when she shot to fame with the girl group on the X Factor.The 27-year-old revealed how she feared opening up on her mixed-race heritage after being cruelly bullied when she was in school. Jade’s grandfather is from Yemen, while her maternal grandmother is from Egypt.

Arms firms linked to alleged war crimes and torture have passed human rights checks by a Scots agency and been given grants, it has emerged.

NEW YORK -- The Yemeni-American poet Threa Almontaser has won the Walt Whitman Award for best first book. Almontaser's “The Wild Fox of Yemen” comes out in April 2021.

Air crews with the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen are facing Saudi legal proceedings for alleged war crimes linked to a US arms firm with a base in Scotland.