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# Africa

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Boko Haram have abducted another SIXTY women and girls
Opinion: The worst crisis you’ve never heard of... is the CAR crisis the next Rwanda?
Dualta Roughneen
After 7 years and almost €7 million, super banana will face its first human trial
Militants attack Kenyan town as residents watch World Cup. 48 people killed.
Kenya's largest elephant has been killed by poachers
Christian Sudanese woman sentenced to death to be freed 'within days'
500 African migrants leapt a fence into Spanish territory today
Opinion: It is a great feeling knowing that your children can call Ireland home
Reginald Oko-Flex Inya
Opinion: I was a vulnerable girl when I came to Ireland, and I’m forever grateful to the loving friends I met
Justine Nantale
Opinion: Equality and social justice for women is my life’s work
Salome Mbugua,
Column: With a positive attitude and determination to succeed, the sky is the limit
Tim Martins
Column: Dance has the ability to bring people together, no matter where they're from
Onai Tafuma
Column: 'Africa is not a single country, many countries and cultures make up the continent'
Carol Azams
Opinion: After a day submerged in a river, the family escaped the men who wanted them dead
Colm Byrne
Abducted schoolgirls: Nigeria says it will talk to Boko Haram
Irish artist wins international prize for his psychedelic war photography
Prosecutors ask for Oscar Pistorius to be placed under psychiatric observation
After 5 months and thousands of deaths, ceasefire begins in South Sudan
Opinion: I see families waiting helplessly as certain famine approaches
David Adams
Photo: Here's what €170 million worth of heroin looks like
At least 57 dead, death toll still rising as train flies off rails in Congo swamp
Column: I watched thirsty children collect water contaminated with sewage
Carol Morgan
58 killed, including women and children, in attack at UN base in South Sudan
Column: The forgotten crises that don't make the evening news still deserve our attention
Joe Costello
Column: 'Memories of the genocide drew screams and wails that echoed around the stadium'
Karen Power
Column: Rwanda ... 20 years on, has the unforgettable country been forgotten?
John Fitzsimons
Aid agency worker dies as Ebola outbreak spreads
Children left homeless by fire 'went to school like it was a normal day'
DFA updates travel advice, as Guinea Ebola epidemic spreads
Egypt sentences 529 people to death after mass trial
Rotting bodies and skeletons found in Nigerian ‘House of Horror’
34 dead, as Ebola confirmed as source of Guinea epidemic
Sunlight can make this dirty water clean...and save lives
Nigerian police free pregnant teens in 'baby factory' raid
320 Irish volunteers arrive in Africa to build classrooms and playground
Shot, burnt and 'hacked with machetes': Over 100 killed in three Nigerian villages
Seven jobseekers killed in Nigeria stadium stampede
Pistorius trial dramatically interrupted after TV station shows witness photo
The Irish League of Credit Unions is to set up shop in Ethiopia
Egypt's entire interim government has resigned