Sally Hayden

Deena Mohamed, who came to prominence with a viral web comic featuring a hijab-wearing superhero, says there is a passion for comics in Arab-speaking countries

An artist hopes to return a mummy - given to UCC in 1928 - from Ireland to Egypt with the support of the Department of Foreign Affairs

First episode of TV show about young people in Mogadishu tops 1.9 million views

The tree, hundreds of years old and said to be where early settlers gave thanks, was destroyed in storm

Drought, floods and conflict have created ‘one of the world’s most complex humanitarian crises’

A state of emergency was declared four years ago and had some success, but those on the front line say more support and funding is needed

Region in south and southwest of country has been site of recurrent violence since 2003

Civilians trapped in Khartoum, as well as hundreds of thousands who have fled their homes, face serious food and water shortages, Red Cross warns

‘What the international community needs to do, and it will never do, is listen to the Sudanese people’

Country’s impoverished neighbours deal with refugee crunch while violence hampers aid deliveries from port to capital Khartoum

'Working for embassies is not the safest … and now this war is bringing back all [the] Islamists and their loyalists’

Many people caught up by the fighting are refugees who fled to Khartoum to escape war or dictatorships

Sudanese filmmaker Ahmad Mahmoud had hoped to be in Europe but has been caught up in the conflict in Khartoum

More than 400 people have been killed since fighting began on April 15th

Belgian university research group puts possible civilian casualties from two-year war in Tigray as high as 813,418