UN: 'We are failing the people of Sudan'In South Sudan a year-long civil war has caused the displacement of nine million people with five million people facing "catastrophic hunger."Sat Apr 06 2024 - 08:33
Life as a refugee in South Sudan: ‘I’m looking for peace. I’m looking for a place my children can study’With precious little help, people in South Sudan are fleeing a harrowing range of dangers - from war to hunger - in search of safe lives for themselves and their loved onesSat Apr 06 2024 - 06:00
‘Climate champion’ fights to highlight South Sudan’s plightNaomi Momone (14) raises awareness for one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable countriesThu Apr 04 2024 - 15:30
South Sudan’s refugee crisis: ‘We’re missing our country, our place, our Ramadan’Sudan has become home to the world’s largest displacement crisis since the war started last yearTue Apr 02 2024 - 05:00
Stark gap between potential and reality in South SudanMinister underlines the importance of Irish aid to beleaguered countryThu Mar 21 2024 - 05:00
South Sudan shuts schools in face of extreme heatTemperatures exceed 40 degrees in country where climate change has ‘amplified’ impactMon Mar 18 2024 - 19:00
Seven years after liberation, Mosul in Iraq is bustling but struggles to move on from wounds of the pastThe economic fallout from the war with Islamic State is still felt in northern Iraq - and women are most likely to be affectedFri Mar 08 2024 - 15:12
Bobi Wine documentary maker forced to flee UgandaBwayo said the issues portrayed in the film stretch far beyond his country, “It’s a big problem that we’re seeing a lot of countries heading towards totalitarian regimes”Sun Nov 26 2023 - 18:42
Some People Need Killing and A Death in Malta: journalists shine a light on human rights abusesPatricia Evangelista examines the Philippines drugs war while Paul Caruana Galizia tells the story of his mother’s decades-long fight against corruption in MaltaWed Nov 01 2023 - 05:00
‘All deaths are hard but dying at sea is the worst’Demise of Senegal’s artisanal fishing industry has led to tragedy on west Africa’s migration routes to EuropeWed Oct 25 2023 - 06:00
Sudan war overwhelming medical services, says MSFAdministrative issues mean back-up medics and supplies cannot be brought to where they are most needed, medical charity saysThu Oct 12 2023 - 20:25
Nobel Peace Prize winner to run in DRC presidential election Denis Mukwege looks to political role in conflict-torn and exploited Democratic Republic of the CongoTue Oct 03 2023 - 19:42
Lampedusa: ‘Saving lives is not an option. It is a legal obligation. It is a moral imperative’Ten years after the first of two terrible shipwrecks in the Mediterranean, a ceremony marks migrant deaths amid calls for international action to prevent further drownings and miseryTue Oct 03 2023 - 17:23
Sally Hayden: Visa discrimination thwarts African journalists and weakens democracyAfrican investigative journalists play a vital role in holding their politicians to account - they should be supported, not blocked and humiliatedTue Oct 03 2023 - 06:02
Refugees in Tunisia: ‘We want to live with dignity like every human being’A Sudanese refugee finds that so-called legal routes to safety can bring their own forms of psychological tortureSun Sept 17 2023 - 16:00
Libya floods: 11,300 people dead as officials warn of long-lasting distress for survivorsThousands of bodies buried amid fears that failing to do so could lead to the spread of diseaseFri Sept 15 2023 - 22:01
Libya floods: reconstruction will take years, survivors will be affected for a lifetimeDesperate calls for more attention to be turned towards a country that has been in crisis for 12 yearsFri Sept 15 2023 - 18:26
Death toll in Libyan flooding disaster ‘could be as high as 20,000’ Mayor of Derna fears city will be struck by an epidemic due to large number of bodies beneath the rubble and in the waterFri Sept 15 2023 - 01:00
Libya floods: at least 5,300 people dead as thousands more missingInternational aid begins to arrive as the UK announces an initial package worth up to €1.16mWed Sept 13 2023 - 22:10
Libya flooding: More than 2,000 people believed dead with 10,000 missingCoastal city of Derna may be worst affected as two dams collapse leaving quarter of its territory ‘disappeared’Wed Sept 13 2023 - 01:00
'There are armed children roaming the city – some of them as young as 10'Ethiopian seeking refuge says people have died by ‘bullets, lack of medicine and starvation’Wed Sept 06 2023 - 09:45
Graffiti artist finds her freedom in Tunisia’s streets‘When I finish my art piece, it doesn’t belong to me any more. It belongs to the street and it belongs to the people’Sat Sept 02 2023 - 12:45
‘I need a safe place’: Sudanese flee war and brave the sea towards EuropeDevastating conflict that began in Sudan in April has claimed thousands of lives and displaced four million people, more than one million of whom have left the countryFri Aug 25 2023 - 14:00
Tunisia’s migrant crisis: ‘We would prefer to risk our life than to be killed like a fowl in our own country’The north African country, a hotspot on ‘the deadliest migration route in the world’, is a microcosm of a global problemSun Aug 20 2023 - 06:00
Survivors of the Adriana: ‘The captain lost the way ... That’s when we called for help’Testimony from survivors on a doomed migrant boat suggests hundreds of deaths may have been preventableSat Aug 05 2023 - 05:00
Doctors in Nigeria begin ‘total and indefinite strike’Resident doctors seek improved conditions and replacement of large number of medical staff who are leaving the country each weekWed Jul 26 2023 - 19:08
Calls to protect Sudan’s rich and ancient heritage amid ongoing warHeritage protection initiative aims to develop network of contacts and volunteers dedicated to safeguarding of Sudan’s cultural heritage amid amid devastating warFri Jul 21 2023 - 16:02
‘People love kush more than food’: West Africa’s growing drug problemIllegal synthetic drug offers some Sierra Leoneans an escape from the relentlessness of poverty in a country with limited resources to combat drug issueMon Jul 17 2023 - 17:00
At least 289 children have died or disappeared in the central Mediterranean this year, says UnicefUN agency calls for governments to better protect vulnerable children, including by providing safe and legal pathways for them to migrate, seek asylum and reunite with family membersFri Jul 14 2023 - 16:01
Six killed in protests in Kenya over soaring cost of living Local media reported that some protesters had been shot dead by policeThu Jul 13 2023 - 17:45
Hundreds missing off west Africa as charity calls for 24-hour rescue resourcesThree boats carrying hundreds of people between them are still missing along the ‘Atlantic’ migration route between west Africa and the Canary IslandsWed Jul 12 2023 - 21:00
Hundreds of people may still be missing at sea near Canary Islands as coast guard says it has rescued 86Most of the people in three boats that set off from Senegal remain unaccounted forMon Jul 10 2023 - 20:41
‘We have the energy’: Historic political wins for women in Sierra Leone hampered by election disputesA rush of women candidates supported by new electoral laws face continuous challenges in their bid to hold officeMon Jul 10 2023 - 19:46
Nine new African countries to be given malaria vaccinesMove is ‘critical step forward in the fight against one of the leading causes of death on the continent’ - WHOThu Jul 06 2023 - 18:33
Punch lines: comedian stands up for South SudanThrough comedy, Akau Jambo tells the story of being born in a refugee camp and his family’s efforts to move abroadWed Jul 05 2023 - 05:25
Doro: Refugee, Hero, Champion, Survivor: A deliverance, a rescue against the oddsThe story of Doro Ģoumãňęh’s migration is lyrical and descriptive, and sometimes repetitive, in the same way that the horrors he’s recounting areMon Jul 03 2023 - 04:02
Sierra Leone fact-checking group stresses need for more resources after election hit by fake newsJournalist says biggest platform where fake news spreads is WhatsApp followed by FacebookWed Jun 28 2023 - 18:36
Sierra Leone elections: Julius Maada Bio re-elected with 56.17% of voteJust over 2.8 million votes cast despite ‘intimidation and violent incidents’ in some areasTue Jun 27 2023 - 20:27
Sierra Leone’s incumbent president leads election amid tense wait for final resultAt least one opposition supporter has died while both major parties publicly predict victoryMon Jun 26 2023 - 20:19
Sierra Leoneans await results of presidential, parliamentary and local elections‘Logistical challenges’ cause delays for voters with some queuing from 6amSun Jun 25 2023 - 19:46
Sierra Leone elections: Claims of intimidation and vote-rigging as nation of eight million-plus goes to pollsStreet protests over alleged electoral irregularities in West African country burdened by unemployment, inflation and high cost of livingFri Jun 23 2023 - 15:51
New EU funding deal with Tunisia supporting authoritarian regime, say criticsEU leaders accused of ‘wining and dining’ Tunisian president Kais Saied in exchange for preventing migration to EuropeSun Jun 18 2023 - 18:14
How has the mass drowning of people become normalised? The potentially hundreds of people who drowned this week off southern Greece are victims of the world’s inequalityThu Jun 15 2023 - 17:30
Democratic Republic of the Congo: ‘The international community has a big responsibility for what happened’Land rights activist Olivier Bahemuke Ndoole urges more aid for his fellow Congolese. Exploitation of natural resources must cease, sustainable energy must be accessed and the judiciary must be reformed for the country of 100 million peopleSun Jun 11 2023 - 17:44
Sudan: At least 10 dead after bombing in southern KhartoumRefugees from Democratic Republic of the Congo among those killed following attackTue Jun 06 2023 - 17:28
Breakup: A Reporter’s Marriage amid a Central African WarThere’s an argument as to how much of the personal a journalist should bring into their work, if any at all. Is any story ever about them?Sat Jun 03 2023 - 05:00
A graphic novelist in Egypt: ‘I’m very open with sharing my journey’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 countriesWed May 31 2023 - 19:04
How did a 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy end up in Galway?An artist hopes to return a mummy - given to UCC in 1928 - from Ireland to Egypt with the support of the Department of Foreign AffairsSun May 28 2023 - 05:00
‘Our country has been through a lot’: Drama series shines a light on SomaliaFirst episode of TV show about young people in Mogadishu tops 1.9 million viewsSat May 27 2023 - 11:00
Locals mourn loss of Sierra Leone’s famous cotton tree, symbol of ‘liberty’The tree, hundreds of years old and said to be where early settlers gave thanks, was destroyed in stormFri May 26 2023 - 17:09
