# africa - Today’s News
# africa - Yesterday’s News
Yes, Africa faces huge challenges, but it is also making remarkable progress and Ireland played its part in that, writes TD Joe Costello.
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# africa - Thursday 23 May, 2013
And forever in the top five in our hearts.
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# africa - Sunday 19 May, 2013
National Volunteering Week ends today. Here Donnacha Maguire, who is in Ethiopia, tells us about some of the work being done by Irish volunteers in the country.
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# africa - Wednesday 15 May, 2013
The money is part of a €520 million aid package from the EU to help Mali rebuild its country following a war with Islamist militants earlier this year.
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# africa - Friday 3 May, 2013
Powered entirely by the sun, the plane can fly by day or night but it will never be able to carry passengers.
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# africa - Saturday 20 April, 2013
This all changed, however, when a South African fishing trawler caught a living specimen in 1938, earning it the “living fossil” nickname.
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# africa - Monday 15 April, 2013
The deal was signed during the opening day of a major international conference focussing on climate change, hunger and poor nutrition.
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# africa - Sunday 31 March, 2013
Protests erupted in western Kenya yesterday after a court upheld Uhuru Kenyatta’s victory in the country’s presidential elections.
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The foundation set up by Bill Gates has been on a high-profile campaign to improve health in poor countries.
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# africa - Saturday 30 March, 2013
Lawyers for challenger Raila Odinga argued before the Supreme Court that the election was marred by irregularities.
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# africa - Thursday 28 March, 2013
Concerns have been raised about the hospitalisation of South Africa’s anti-apartheid leader and former president Nelson Mandela earlier today.
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# africa - Wednesday 27 March, 2013
Barrie Rooney, a biomedical analyst from Co Leitrim, explains what motivates her to travel to remote areas of Africa to treat patients suffering from sleeping sickness – and how her Irish culture helps her connect with the people she helps.
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# africa - Monday 18 March, 2013
The announcement was welcomed by NGOs working in the region as well as Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore.
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# africa - Monday 11 March, 2013
The Invisible Children campaign went viral worldwide last year – but it was deeply racist, politically motivated, and presented a Uganda that does not exist, writes Kevin McPartlan.
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# africa - Friday 8 March, 2013
Seven million people have died as a result of war in DR Congo since 1998 – making it the one of the deadliest conflicts since World War II, said the Minister for Trade and Development.
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# africa - Tuesday 5 March, 2013
Irish troops will go to Mali next month, where approximately 375,000 people have been displaced due to internal conflict. The immense humanitarian fallout of the situation must not be overlooked, writes Emilia Sorrentino.
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# africa - Monday 4 March, 2013
A rebel militia in the Democratic Republic of Congo has seized control of an eastern town after days of fighting that have left more than 80 people dead, the UN has confirmed.
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# africa - Wednesday 27 February, 2013
Five years ago, over 500,000 people were displaced and more than 1,500 killed in post-election violence in Kenya. Now, NGOs are working to manage humanitarian situation ahead of the country’s next election this Monday, writes Ivy Ndiewo.
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# africa - Friday 22 February, 2013
Eleven African countries have been invited to sign a UN-brokered accord aiming to end more than two decades of conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
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# africa - Tuesday 19 February, 2013
A family of French citizens, including four children, have been kidnapped by a Nigerian terrorist group suspected to be Boko Haram.
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# africa - Tuesday 5 February, 2013
The study found that up to two thirds of all new HIV infections among men in stable partnerships are caused by one partner being unfaithful.
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# africa - Saturday 2 February, 2013
Francois Hollande was greeted with chants of ‘Thank You, France.’
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# africa - Friday 1 February, 2013
Papers were lodged with the High Court late Wednesday.
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# africa - Tuesday 29 January, 2013
Maybe Robert Mugabe’s been spending the money on suits.
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French and Malian troops now control the historic town in which Islamist rebels are said to have destroyed thousands of ancient Muslim and Greek manuscripts.
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# africa - Saturday 19 January, 2013
As tensions surge between France and its former colony Mali, this factfile gives the facts about the country and how the current situation arose.
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# africa - Thursday 17 January, 2013
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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# africa - Wednesday 16 January, 2013
The survey found that 86 per cent of our new citizens have completed third level education while over 80 per cent are working.
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# africa - Tuesday 15 January, 2013
Approval at the UN security council is likely to mean further support for France’s intervention in west Africa.
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# africa - Monday 14 January, 2013
The French government believes that its intervetion in the west African country will be over in a matter of weeks but officials have said that Islamist militants are better trained and armed than expected.
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# africa - Monday 7 January, 2013
The money has been handed back after it emerged last year that it had been misappropriated by officials in the Ugandan Prime Minister’s office.
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# africa - Friday 4 January, 2013
Rebels are meeting with the Congolese government in Uganda for peace talks – in a bid to end the long-running conflict that has displaced hundreds of thousands of people.
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# africa - Thursday 3 January, 2013
Enda Kenny said McKeever was a passionate adventurer who was “driven in his belief that everybody can achieve their potential”.
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# africa - Tuesday 1 January, 2013
The family of three from South Africa were on holidays at the time.
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# africa - Friday 28 December, 2012
The UN has demanded that rebels halt their nearly three-week offensive to ensure the safety of civilians.
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# africa - Wednesday 26 December, 2012
The 94-year-old former leader was admitted to hospital three weeks ago for treatment for a recurring lung infection.
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# africa - Saturday 15 December, 2012
The ARA Libertad training ship was seized in October in the port of Tema as collateral for unpaid bonds dating from Argentina’s economic crisis a decade ago.
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# africa - Tuesday 11 December, 2012
The 94-year-old former president of South Africa has had longstanding lung problems.
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# africa - Monday 10 December, 2012
Police believe the man was a stowaway attempting to enter England by hiding in the undercarriage of a passenger plane – and fell to his death as the aircraft descended.
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# africa - Friday 7 December, 2012
The US president told Mohamed Morsi that he was worried about the deaths of protesters in Egypt in recent days.
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