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Russia tricking African recruits into being ‘meat for the grinder’
Bloodstained orchids, zombie fungus and rare snowdrops in top new species in 2025 – with some already endangered
South African government to take action as dozens die in circumcision initiation rites
Smart sensor developed by Donegal researchers used to provide clean water in Uganda
US strikes Islamic State targets in Nigeria after Trump warnings
Nine killed in ‘random’ pub shooting in South Africa
Archaeologists uncover 4,500-year-old temple for sun god in Egypt
Two buildings collapse in Moroccan city of Fez, killing 22 people and injuring 16
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Paramilitary drone strikes in Sudan kill at least 114 people, including 63 children, says WHO
Benin coup attempt thwarted by loyalist troops, says government
RSF kill 33 children in strike on nursery school in Sudan
UN fearful of ‘new wave’ of atrocities in Sudanese war
Sudanese RSF paramilitaries are holding people for ransom – ‘if you don’t transfer the money, they kill you’
GAA ‘Plant the Planet’ campaign in Africa raises €1.7m to combat poverty and climate change
How gold is fuelling Vladimir Putin’s hungry war machine and keeping Russia afloat
Jacob Zuma’s daughter accused of tricking South Africans into fighting for Putin
‘These are tiny children’ – Irish nun pleads for government’s help after 315 pupils kidnapped in Nigeria
Pope calls on kidnappers to free 265 pupils and teachers as 50 students escape captors in mass abduction in Nigeria
BREAKING |Gunmen kidnap 52 students from Catholic school in Nigeria, local TV reports
UN warns aid ‘on the brink of collapse’ in Sudan after paramilitary forces seize major city
‘Your job here is not to fight one another, it is to fight this climate crisis,’ UN climate chief tells Cop30 in Brazil
Sudanese militia that massacred hundreds in Darfur is committing fresh atrocities closer to Khartoum
Sudanese paramilitary group agrees to humanitarian truce
BREAKING |Pirates firing machine guns board tanker off Somalia coast
Ishaan Tharoor: Sudan’s war takes a horrific turn as the world again opts to look the other way
Famine grips two more regions in war-torn Sudan – UN
Fears for thousands trying to flee militia massacres in Sudan
‘Citizens are trapped and terrified’ – fall of Darfur’s last stronghold raises fears of massacres in Sudan
Liam Neeson tells of fear for children in South Sudan as aid slashed
Madagascar coup leader says he is ‘taking the position of president’
Morocco engulfed by deadly riots as demonstrators protest €5bn spend on hosting 2030 World Cup
Karol Balfe: Budget 2026 must not lose sight of our aid obligations overseas
Archaeologists find whistle used by ancient Egyptian guards to warn of grave robbers
Drone attack on mosque by Sudanese paramilitary group kills at least 70
Ireland has one of the highest and most valuable minimum wages in the world, study finds
Boko Haram militants kill 60 in attack in Nigeria’s north-east
Democratic Republic of the Congo announces new Ebola outbreak
Sudan armed group seeks help after landslide kills 1,000
Elephants are dying from same bacteria that infected mammoths, genetic research shows
US worker deported in error to El Salvador may now face his second deportation – this time to Uganda
Texan millionaire in Africa on hunting trip gored to death by buffalo
State spends €3,400 on Kenyan speaker’s Shelbourne Hotel stay
Woman set up Facebook ‘honeytrap’ to snare aunt’s killer from 10,000km away
‘Incredibly rare’ glassy Martian meteorite sells for $4.3m at auction in New York
Ronan Scully: Hunger is a failure of humanity, and we can choose to end it for good
Yemen’s Houthi rebels continue assault on commercial ship in Red Sea
Trump administration’s cuts to USAid could cause more than 14 million deaths over the next five years
Clothes from UK found at huge two-storey high dump site on protected wetlands in Ghana
‘Why me?’ – six extraordinary stories from sole survivors of plane crashes after man survives India Air disaster
At least 49 people have died in flooding in South Africa
Plane supply for global air freight stalls due to a ‘stretched market’
Bob Geldof says there is one thing he is more ‘proud’ of than Live Aid 40 years on from benefit concert
Woman given life sentence for selling six-year-old daughter for €1,000
‘A shocking situation’ – global heating could surpass 2C level for the first time in next five years
Wild chimps filmed using medicinal plants to help treat each other’s injuries
Mayo journalist on a life of war reporting that led to him winning prestigious Pulitzer Prize
US airstrike on migrant centre in Yemen kills at least 68 people
Wild chimpanzees filmed sharing ‘boozy’ fruit for first time
At least 30 people killed in attack by RSF militia in Sudan
Belgian teenagers charged with bid to smuggle 5,000 ants out of Kenya
UN reports hundreds more dead after two-day RSF assault on Sudan refugee camps in war that has forced 13m people to flee
‘Unsecured’ penguin in passenger seat causes helicopter crash in South Africa
Putting a face to the name: how our most famous ancestor Lucy looked in life
Peacekeeping troops and Congo’s M23 rebels agree to ceasefire
Six killed as tourist submarine sinks off Egyptian Red Sea resort
Sudan army wins back control of palace as RSF rebels beaten back
Explainer: Who is fighting in Sudan?
BREAKING |Sudanese army seizes full control of presidential palace in Khartoum, Sudan TV and military sources say
Uganda celebrates St Patrick’s Day in style
16 dead and dozens injured after bus overturns on South African highway
New faster-spreading Mpox strain discovered in Africa
At least 11 dead and 65 injured after explosion at M23 rally in DR Congo
Children face violent death and rape in east Congo’s brutal war
Tomb of first pharaoh since King Tutankhamun’s in 1922 unearthed in Egypt
United Nations seeks $6bn from donors to ease crisis in Sudan
‘If our USAid funding is stopped, my life will be as good as over’
Ebola cases in Uganda rise to nine while 265 others monitored under quarantine
Uganda launches vaccine trial to stop Ebola outbreak just days after first case reported
Congo rebels declare truce ‘on humanitarian grounds’ as UN says at least 900 have died in fighting
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