On behalf of everyone at GOAL, I want to express my gratitude to the Irish people for the encouragement and support they gave us during the past year, and since our foundation in 1977.

RAPE and violence against women and children is now as pressing an issue as food and shelter for communities devastated by conflict, former president Mary Robinson has warned.

SOMALIA’S famine refugees, weakened by months of drought, yesterday began Islam’s punishing Ramadan fast amid the tents and shacks of the world’s largest refugee camp.

THOUSANDS of Somalis fleeing drought, famine and war have started moving into a new extension of the world’s largest refugee camp in Kenya, which is increasingly concerned about bearing the brunt of the Horn of Africa crisis.