The locusts have been seen in Eastern Equatoria state near the borders with Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda.

The farmer who dropped by to give unasked-for advice to my friend and his wife clearing their newly bought quarter of an acre of long, abandoned terraces on a steep slope on the island of La Gomera in the Canaries was unequivocal: “Cut it down!”

Tullow Oil shares fell by almost 16% after the company warned of a likely $1.5bn (€1.3bn) financial hit to its 2019 figures due to a lower oil price forecast and a reduction in reserves at one of its flagship fields offshore Ghana.

In a refinery just outside Uganda’s main airport, workers slip bars of freshly refined gold into clear plastic bags sealed with a sticker of the national flag — black, yellow and red — and the label “Ugandan’s Treasure.”

Felix The chief executive of French oil major Total, Patrick Pouyanne, has dismissed the idea it might buy Irish-founded Tullow Oil, which is its partner in East Africa and Guyana.

Tullow Oil’s acting chief has said the company is open to takeover offers in light of its shares plummeting by nearly 72% on it cutting its production outlook, suspending dividend payments, and parting company with its CEO and exploration director.

Tullow Oil shares plummeted by more than 27% to a 21-year low after the Irish-founded exploration company said production from flagship projects in Ghana has disappointed and that it will reassess the commercial viability of recent discoveries made in South America.

Tullow Oil shares fell more than 5% after the Irish-founded exploration company announced the termination of its long-standing agreement to sell a third of its interests in Uganda in a $900m (€814m) deal.

A record number of sailors are bailing out of the Naval Service and fears have been raised that it will be the worst year on record for departures of highly trained personnel.

When Tomás Mac an tSaoir came through the arrival gates of Dublin airport yesterday, his only visible signs of injury were some small plasters on his feet.

This is the beginning of a new movement, one where librarians become outlaws, and children become warriors, writes Suzanne Harrington

Shares in Tullow Oil fell by over 2% after the Irish-founded exploration company slightly downgraded its production expectations for this year and said progress on highly-anticipated project work in Kenya could be delayed.

King of the Claddagh Michael Lynskey and his community took to the Galway waterside at the weekend to welcome home a workboat which plied the Atlantic during two world wars.

A new initiative has been launched in Dublin by Plan International and UNESCO Chair IT Tralee to help children with disabiliteis to join in everyday activities including playing sport.

Caroline O’Doherty speaks with an Irish aid worker in one of Africa’s most volatile regions that has been hit with an outbreak of the ebola virus

With spring in the air it could be the right time to give your home a lift with these bright ideas, writes Esther N McCarthy.

Tullow Oil has confirmed its intention to resume paying dividends to shareholders after a five-year hiatus.

I’M JUST back from Slow Food Terra Madre Salone Del Gusto 2018, the biggest international event dedicated to food — 1.2m people attended in 2016.

A self-styled adventure junkie will have to avoid bandits and lions and endure searing desert heat on an epic 12,000km solo bike tour through Africa.

When one man set up a football academy in an impoverished village in Uganda, he had no idea it had the potential to keep children in education — and save young girls from arranged marriages. Doreen O’Mahony reports.

While many former soldiers took to the streets of Dublin to highlight the dire pay and conditions endured by their serving compatriots, one man took it upon himself to show solidarity by holding his own march 11,600km away.

This year’s Men’s Open Singles field at the World Handball Championships is so strong that it will be a case of kill or be killed, believes Team Ireland captain Martin Mulkerrins.

With the Government to be taken to court for its alleged failures on climate change, the law is now a frontline for campaigners, writes Caroline O’Doherty.

Communications between parents and schools can be time-consuming and frustrating. An Irish start-up is helping to make the process easier with a free, two-way app for schools, sports clubs and creches.

A Ugandan lawyer who has sued Facebook Ireland over allegedly defamatory posts by an anonymous blogger has lost his appeal seeking the identity and location of the blogger.

In the summer they swim in the lake in the centre of Geneva. Even at this time of year, the water is crystal clear, reflecting the brick and stone of towering centuries-old buildings along its shores, writes Michael Clifford.

It is all too easy to conflate one of the great social crimes of our age — having the temerity to be judgemental — with one of the great human tragedies of the age— mass immigration — and criticise the vote taken last week by a Clare community.

Bidi Bidi in northern Uganda is the world’s largest official refugee camp, where survivors of the conflict in South Sudan wait and hope, writes Caroline O’Doherty.

Inniscarra Dramatic Society was putting on a production of… well no one is clear to this day what it was. They hired a man called Suni to teach some singing and dancing for a variety show, writes Colm O’Regan

The Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, says he was not consulted about a decision to exclude former president of Ireland Mary McAleese from a Catholic women’s conference in the Vatican.

A leading Catholic cleric has said his office was not consulted over a decision to deny former president of Ireland Mary McAleese access to a conference in the Vatican.

Priti Patel is thought to be on her way to Downing Street to learn her fate, after being summoned back from an official visit to Africa by Prime Minister Theresa May.

Two Ugandan opposition politicians say their homes have been attacked with explosive devices.

Farmers from Uganda will be at the National Ploughing Championships as part of a fact-finding mission.

A piece of software that detects internet censorship is a critical tool for safeguarding human rights on the internet and beyond, writes Maria Xynou. 

A piece of software that detects internet censorship is a critical tool for safeguarding human rights on the internet and beyond, writes Maria Xynou. 

Twelve Ugandan soldiers were killed and seven others injured in an ambush by al-Shabab Islamic extremists in southern Somalia on Sunday, Uganda's military said.

Tullow Oil is to turn its focus towards South America later this year, aiming to start drilling offshore Suriname by October at an area close to where super-major ExxonMobil this week made a significant discovery off the coast of Guyana.

Julie Sharkey stars in the Everyman’s production of Dancing at Lughnasa, writes Colette Sheridan

Armed men have attacked a prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern city of Beni.

A request under the Freedom of Information Act has been lodged with the Department of Defence in an attempt to establish why a Naval Service ship was delayed by more than three weeks from leaving her base to save migrants in the Mediterranean Sea.

The complainant says Tomkins' "overpowered" her and she was also too drunk to consent to sex.

“I have a very vivid recollection of one particular night when the brutes seized a man from the railway station and brought him close to my camp to devour. I could plainly hear them crunching the bones, and the sound of their dreadful purring filled the air and rang in my ears for days afterwards.”