A new report reveals nearly 1,600 children – an average of almost one every day – were reported dead or missing between 2014 and 2018, though many more go unrecorded.

A security expert who witnessed recent terrorist atrocities in Sri Lanka claims Ireland won’t be equipped to respond to similar attacks, which he believes will inevitably come to this country.

Police in Yemen have detained at least 5,000 migrants over the last 10 days who were attempting to cross to Saudi Arabia.

It is gradually becoming unacceptable to pollute for free and pass the bill on to future generations. Some 40 countries are now putting a price on carbon pollution, write Catherine McKenna and Feike Sijbesma

A suspected US air strike has targeted a base run by Islamic State-affiliated fighters in Somalia's northern state of Puntland, according to a security official.

Somalia's president is expected to announce a "state of war" against the al-Shabab extremist group after last week's truck bombing which killed 358 people in Mogadishu.

The death toll in Somalia's worst ever terror attack has risen to 358.

Among the many threats associated with climate change, deteriorating global security could turn out to be the most frightening of all, says Gulrez Shah Azhar

The Government has donated an extra €9m in funding for areas hit by humanitarian crises across the globe.

AS our political discourse frets judicial appointments, as it tosses and turns about Brexit, as it tries to keep up with revelations about more unearthed Garda accounts and wallows in angst provoked by the gender balance of Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s cabinet, 20m people in four East African countries face starvation. 

Latest: Fighting continued through the night as the extremists fought heavily-armed soldiers.

The Dutchman who purchased former Naval Service ship LÉ Aisling for the bargain price of €110,000 got an added bonus — there was €16,000 of fuel onboard.

The Dutchman who purchased former Naval Service ship LÉ Aisling for the bargain price of €110,000 got an added bonus — there was €16,000 of fuel onboard.

As famine looms across East Africa, clean water is critical - but drought has seen the price of water in Somaliland reportedly rocket by up to 3,000%.

Damien Enright recounts more tales from his travels in Ethiopia. 

Hundreds of thousands of people in Somalia may die in the next few months if urgent action is not taken to address the threat of famine, Britain's envoy for the Horn of Africa has warned.

A suicide car bomber has detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at a security checkpoint near Mogadishu's international airport, killing at least three people, police said.

Former president of Ireland Mary Robinson has said it is unfair that Ethiopians are suffering the worst effects of climate change as 10m people are hit by food shortages following the worst drought in 50 years.

Former president of Ireland Mary Robinson has said it is unfair that Ethiopians are suffering the worst effects of climate change as 10 million people are hit by food shortages following the worst drought in 50 years.

Whether the Taoiseach decides to go to the country in February or leave it until later in spring, there can be little doubt that the general election campaign has already begun, what with the number of public announcements and promises being made by the major political parties.

Defence Minister Simon Coveney has said the Defence Forces are ready to deploy in the Mediterranean to help with the growing migrant crisis. He has likened the predicament of today’s migrants to those who travelled in the coffin ships that left this country during the The Famine.

The Naval Service’s most senior officer says his personnel are ready and willing to create history by joining anti-piracy operations off the Horn of Africa.

A video purported to be by Somalia’s al Qaida-linked rebel group al-Shabab urged Muslims to attack shopping centres in the US, Canada, Britain and other Western countries.

The Government is to gift one of its Naval Service ships to the Maltese to help them cope with the ongoing refugee crisis in the Mediterranean and is planning to deploy Irish ships on an EU anti-piracy missions off Somalia.

The World Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction in March must agree on an updated framework for action to mitigate human and material loss, says Margareta Wahlström

Leaders urged to switch focus away from keeping foreigners out

Hundreds of extreme-right activists have demonstrated to “save” Calais from homeless migrants inundating the French port city in hopes of crossing the Channel to Britain.

A Sudanese woman who was sentenced to death for refusing to recant her Christian faith has arrived in Italy en route to the United States along with her family, including an infant born in prison.

WHO, on mature reflection, would opt to live forever? All might be well, at first, in eternal life but ultimately, tedium boredom and the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune would render existence unbearable.

Italy’s plea for help from fellow member states of the European Union to deal with the arrival of refugees to its southern shores must not go unheeded.

The Vatican has been drawn into a new controversy after acknowledging that its bank’s new president is also chairman of a shipbuilder involved in the construction of warships – a significant conflict for an institution that has long shunned ties to military manufacturing.

Horses in their winter jackets look somewhat doleful as they stand casting long shadows in the sloping fields above the sea.

Somali pirates who have been holding a hijacked ship for nearly two years killed a Syrian hostage crew member and wounded another to protest over a delayed ransom payment, a pirate leader said.

WE HANG over the half-door and stare at the sky.

The Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has said Ireland has donated €3m to Somalia, in order to save lives.

At least two Somali lawmakers and three civilians have been killed in bombings in the war-ravaged Horn of Africa nation, officials said.

The European Union is to expand its naval anti-piracy mission to include for the first time Somali “coastal territory and internal waters”.

At a time when many think the US government is inept, Special Forces are getting the job done around the world, writes Daniel Klaidman

Britain moved to whip up international support for a new military and political strategy in Somalia to intensify pressure on al-Shabab militants and try to pull the failed Horn of Africa nation back from the grip of pirates and terrorists.

AN Irish ultra runner has revealed a bottle of beer helped him become the only man on the planet to run seven marathons on seven continents in less than five days.

An Irish ultra runner who is the only man on the planet to run seven marathons in less than seven days on seven continents, is expected to break his own record today.

The United Nations says Somalia's famine is over, but has warned that continued assistance is needed.