At least 56 people die after human traffickers force 300 off boats and into the sea
The migrants were being smuggled from Africa to Yemen.
The migrants were being smuggled from Africa to Yemen.
People accused of supporting Boko Haram are being brutally tortured in Cameroon.
The scale of the HIV problem in Kenya’s Homa Bay County is enormous, writes Dr Eamonn Faller.
Men, women and children in South Sudan have been shot, hacked to death with machetes and burnt alive.
Commander Brian Fitzgerald said he was extremely proud of his team.
Africa and Pakistan contribute the highest number of non-Irish doctors here.
We spoke to its author, Angolan native José Eduardo Agualusa.
The waves of desperate people slipping across international borders every year has created a massive moneymaking opportunity for unscrupulous human traffickers.
The donkey gelatin industry is said to be worth millions of dollars in China, which is now looking to Africa to satisfy new demand.
The woman had claimed her car was hijacked with her baby inside.
There is a looming risk of famine in a number of countries.
Famine was declared in the new African country on Monday, which has been embroiled in civil conflict for years.
The UK foreign secretary refused to answer questions on his views of colonialism.
More than 200,000 people still get leprosy every year.
Yesterday a department official confirmed that it was making contact with “the very small number of Irish citizens” who were in the country.
Tour operators have begun evacuating tourists.
The priest had even given a date.
Donal Lenihan recalls when the Irish team travelled to a town in the middle of the desert in southern Namibia
The country’s inflation is running at 18.5%, driven by higher food prices partly caused by a ban on rice imports.
He has led the country for 36 years.
The 22-year-rule of Yahya Jammeh has ended.
The Global Youth Development Index ranks countries in terms of prospects and opportunities for young people.
On Friday, Rwanda inaugurated a drone operation that its backers hope will kickstart a revolution in the supply of medical care in rural parts of Africa.
Three piece suits are often the order of the day.
The Bóthar Ark has flown with a cargo of Irish-donated animals which will be presented to farming families in Rwanda.
Inmates at Luzira have access to spiritual seminars and counselling.
The World Health Organisation has declared the virus a global public health emergency.
Yes lawnmower. Or paramotor to give it its proper title. Oisín Creagh’s peculiar journey should take about a month.
The ANC has even lost control of the municipality of Nelson Mandela Bay.
Those who fled the latest violence described a campaign of wanton destruction.
The three are among 260 staff from Concern Worldwide in the country.
“The Imam and those that preside over the marriage ceremony would also be sent to jail. If you want to know whether what I am saying is true or not, try it tomorrow and see.”
A new UNICEF report is highlighting the treacherous journeys of the world’s migrant and refugee children.
Oisín Creagh has been flying paramotors for the last ten years.
An estimated $100m worth of illegal ivory is being torched.
A jeep in her motorcade hit the boy. She offered the boy’s family ‘profound condolences and our grief and heartbreak’.
His family reportedly abandoned him because they thought he was a witch.
Extreme forms of mutilation can lead to difficulties in menstruation, painful intercourse, incontinence and infertility.
A coincidence reunited the girl with her biological family.