VOA60: March 29, 2024

In the Gaza Strip, planes drop aid by parachute as the U.N. warns the territory continues to face severe shortages of food and supplies.

The U.S. government approves $60 million to help rebuild the bridge that collapsed Tuesday after being struck by a ship in Baltimore, Maryland.

In Senegal, likely President-elect Bassirou Diomaye Faye meets with the current president, signaling a peaceful handover of power.

And the Academy Award-winning "Oppenheimer," a film about the atomic bomb’s developer, opens in Japan, the only nation to be struck by an atomic weapon.

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