UNICEF Ireland have announced the appointment of Munster and Ireland rugby star Donncha O’Callaghan to their board.

The Commission for Communications Regulation (Comreg) is considering banning calls to and from certain sub-Saharan countries.

Telecoms watchdog Comreg is considering banning calls to and from certain sub-Saharan countries after the re-emergence of a scam in which mobile customers can have their call credit stolen.

MANY African countries, including Uganda, have refused to recognise the National Transitional Council in Libya as legitimate representatives of the Libyan people.

IRELAND ranks in the top ten in two World Bank surveys of best international destinations in which to conduct business.

A US citizen of Algerian origin suspected of financing al-Qaida’s North African offshoot has been arrested in Spain, officials said today.

GRACE Maher’s letter on genetically modified (GM) crops (June 24) is a great example of disinformation.

A newborn baby and four children were among the 395 people newly diagnosed with HIV last year, it was disclosed today.

IRELAND ranks among the worst countries in Europe in terms of discrimination against ethnic minorities from sub-Saharan Africa, a European report has revealed.

The bodies of 13 people were found aboard a packed migrant boat today near one of Spain’s Canary Islands, the Interior Ministry said.

Gay people in South Africa can be joined in matrimony under new legislation passed by parliament in an unprecedented move on a continent where homosexuality is taboo.

THE Government is gravely concerned at the humanitarian situation in Darfur, Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern said yesterday.

The Government is gravely concerned at the humanitarian situation in Darfur, Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern said today.

NIGERIAN President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday called for aid to help combat the “severe degradation” of three-quarters of African farmland, a leading cause of hunger and poverty on the continent.

Nigeria’s President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday called for aid to help combat the “severe degradation” of three-quarters of African farmland, a leading cause of hunger and poverty on the continent.

IRELAND is losing almost half of its medical graduates to practices and hospitals in the US, Britain, Australia and Canada.

Irish development aid may be propping up a corrupt government regime in Ethiopia, it was claimed today.

Governments across the world must tackle the HIV/Aids pandemic which has now reached a new high of more than 40 million people with the disease, charities demanded today as they marked World Aids Day.

We cannot afford to wait for an onslaught of harrowing images of dying people to realise a humanitarian crisis is looming in Niger. Liam Horan reports from Niger.

Rescue crews found a boat crammed with 41 would-be immigrants, including four babies, off the Canary Islands, after they made a mobile phone call to say they had been adrift for three days.

CHILDREN will go without safe drinking water and more people will face starvation because of Government cuts to overseas aid.