# africa - Saturday 24 September, 2022
# Olympics
# Olympics
If successful with its bid, Egypt would become the first Africa n or Arab nation to host the Olympics.
# africa - Tuesday 6 September, 2022
# Irish Aid
# Irish Aid
An Irish diplomatic team has visited the Horn of Africa as the State is due to announce further funding to avert a famine.
# africa - Tuesday 9 August, 2022
# Kenya
# Kenya
The country is hoping for an orderly transition of power after almost a decade under two-term President Uhuru Kenyatta.
# africa - Thursday 14 July, 2022
# Africa
# Africa
MINSUMA is the mission in which the Army Ranger Wing is involved.
# africa - Saturday 9 July, 2022
# Famine
# Famine
Trócaire’s Miriam Donohoe meets the families on the front line of famine in Somalia – a country facing the worst hunger crisis in a decade.
# africa - Friday 1 July, 2022
# Monkeypox
# Monkeypox
Countries in Africa have reported more than 1,800 suspected cases so far this year including more than 70 deaths.
# africa - Wednesday 29 June, 2022
# Waiting For The Rain
# Waiting For The Rain
Concern brought The Journal and other media to Kenya to report on the impacts of drought.
# africa - Friday 20 May, 2022
# World Food Programme
# World Food Programme
In the Sahel, 7.7 million children under the age of five are expected to suffer from malnutrition.
# africa - Thursday 14 April, 2022
# KwaZulu-Natal
# KwaZulu-Natal
The persistent rains have wreaked havoc, destroying homes, collapsing buildings and washing away major roads.
# africa - Tuesday 12 April, 2022
# Senegal
# Senegal
Astou Sokhna died nine months pregnant on 7 April after doctors refused her request to perform a caesarean section.
# africa - Tuesday 29 March, 2022
# Africa
From The42
# Africa
Partey strikes as Ghana upset Nigeria to reach World Cup
# africa - Saturday 19 February, 2022
# Mali
# Mali
There are 34 Irish troops in Mali at present.
# africa - Friday 28 January, 2022
# Storm Ana
# Storm Ana
The storm made landfall on Monday in Madagascar before ploughing into Mozambique and Malawi.
# africa - Monday 27 December, 2021
# Vaccine Equity
# Vaccine Equity
Without intellectual property rights waivers to allow developing countries to produce their own jabs, demand will continue to outstrip supply, they said.
# africa - Friday 26 November, 2021
# Restrictions
# Restrictions
Germany, Italy, Austria and the Netherlands are among countries to have already banned visitors from South Africa .
# africa - Thursday 14 October, 2021
# World Health Organisation
# World Health Organisation
The UN plans to increase rapid diagnostic testing in eight Africa n countries.
# africa - Thursday 16 September, 2021
# Isis
# Isis
Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi was killed in a strike by France’s Barkhane military operation a few weeks ago, French authorities said.
# africa - Wednesday 9 June, 2021
# Vaccine Plea
# Vaccine Plea
Vaccine shipments into Africa have ground to a ‘near halt’, the WHO said last week.
# africa - Saturday 5 June, 2021
# Banned
# Banned
The government directive has been condemned by international human rights groups.
# Burkina Faso
# Burkina Faso
The country’s president described the massacre as “barbaric” and three days of national mourning have been declared.
# africa - Monday 31 May, 2021
# Pan African Parliament
# Pan African Parliament
The man said he was trying to knock a phone out of another legislator’s hand when he aimed a kick in the direction of Pemmy Majodina of South Africa
# africa - Thursday 27 May, 2021
# Genocide
# Genocide
The French president stopped short of an apology but recognised that France bears ‘an overwhelming responsibility’ for the killing of 800,000 people.
# africa - Tuesday 27 April, 2021
# Burkina Faso
# Burkina Faso
An Irishman was also taken during the attack.
# africa - Friday 19 March, 2021
# Tanzania
# Tanzania
Questions remain over the true cause of the late president’s death, after multiple rumours he had Covid-19 or had sought treatment abroad.
# africa - Thursday 18 March, 2021
# Africa
# Africa
He had said last year that Tanzania had eradicated Covid through three days of national prayer.
# africa - Sunday 6 December, 2020
# Fighting Violence
# Fighting Violence
The Africa Union (AU) adopted a plan in 2013 to silence guns on the continent by the year 2020.
# africa - Thursday 3 December, 2020
# Overpopulation
# Overpopulation
The government had been criticised for shooting elephants to control overpopulation.
# africa - Thursday 19 November, 2020
# Coronavirus
# Coronavirus
The continent of 1.3 billion people is being warned against ‘prevention fatigue’.
# africa - Tuesday 22 September, 2020
# High Court
# High Court
The man claims he was left in an airport terminal without money, a telephone or his luggage, the High Court heard.
# africa - Tuesday 1 September, 2020
# Africa
# Africa
Akon, who first announced his idea for the utopian city in 2018, has described it as a “real-life Wakanda”.
# africa - Saturday 4 July, 2020
# Africa
# Africa
More than 11 million people around the world are now known to have been infected since the pandemic began.
# africa - Wednesday 10 June, 2020
# History
# History
The President’s comments come at a time when there is is a global focus on the history of colonialism.
# africa - Friday 5 June, 2020
# Mali
# Mali
Abdelmalek Droukdel was the leader of al-Qaeda in north Africa .
# africa - Wednesday 25 March, 2020
# Trócaire
# Trócaire
Were coronavirus to spread across the entire Africa n continent, countries will have to rely only on their own scarce resources, writes Trócaire CEO Caoimhe de Barra.
# africa - Saturday 22 February, 2020
# Africa
# Africa
There has been 200 suspected cases on the continent but nearly all have been confirmed negative.
# africa - Friday 3 January, 2020
# The Age Of Football
# The Age Of Football
In an extract from his book, David Goldblatt looks at the continent’s remarkable devotion to the English top flight.
# africa - Friday 27 December, 2019
# The Age Of Football
From The42
# The Age Of Football
In an extract from his book, David Goldblatt looks at the continent’s remarkable devotion to the English top flight.
# africa - Monday 4 November, 2019
# Benin
# Benin
The Gulf of Guinea has become one of the most dangerous maritime regions in the world.
# africa - Monday 21 October, 2019
# Drought
# Drought
More than five million rural Zimbabweans – nearly a third of the population – are at risk of food shortages before the next harvest in 2020.
# africa - Sunday 7 April, 2019
# Africa
# Africa
Only the man’s skull and a pair of trousers were recovered.
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