Michael Werz and Max Hoffman say the effects of climate change, such as drought, flooding and the undermining of agriculture, are among the drivers of migration and policymakers need to face up to that.

The money may be good and the suntan is free and you could probably fry an egg on the stones there — but this Irish soldier is not in an iconic 1980s TV ad for beer.

BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday became the first foreign leader to visit Cairo since the fall of Hosni Mubarak, styling himself as the friend of a revolution that remains unfinished.

An invasion of locusts that has destroyed millions of acres of crops in North Africa is heading toward Sudan’s strife-torn Darfur region, a UN agency warned today.

The Kingdom of Morocco has until now been an oasis of calm along the violent fault line between Islam and the West.