A terminally ill woman who was deported from Britain while undergoing treatment for cancer has died, it was reported today.

It is up to Africa to help Kenya resolve a dispute over elections that has sparked spiralling violence, the African Union chief said as the continent’s leaders converged in Ethiopia for a summit.

LOCATING Irish aid supplies like tents and blankets at a UN hub in Italy will save thousands of lives in natural disasters, a leading UN aid coordinator said yesterday.

CLAIMS that Baldonnel air base is being used by the CIA to re-supply its “torture flights” were last night strongly denied by the Defence Department.

DONWEH BAR props up her skeletal frame, wizened beyond her 48 years, with spindly arms wrapped around a twisted cane. Nearby a toddler with protruding belly and ribs eats a few grains of corn meal from her mother's hand.

Liberian rebels locked in peace talks have said a power-sharing deal could be signed as early as today.

Boats and planes landed some of the first shipments of desperately needed international aid for Liberia’s capital today.

Embattled Liberian president Charles Taylor has agreed to cede power on August 11, West African envoys and Taylor’s spokesman said today.

WEST AFRICAN leaders promised to send peacekeepers to Liberia despite new rebel attacks that shattered a short-lived ceasefire considered crucial to restoring peace in the troubled country.

Liberian rebels shattered a day-old pledge to cease-fire, lobbing mortars at neighbourhoods crowded with refugees and briefly capturing a key bridge in the war-ruined capital desperately short of food and water.

Liberian President Charles Taylor, a newly indicted war crimes suspect, claimed today that his government had foiled an attempted coup to unseat him.

The president of the Internet’s oversight body has recommended a major restructuring, saying the goal of leaving the web in private hands has proven unworkable.

At least 100 people have died following a stampede at a packed soccer match in Accra, Ghana.