Senior African cleric to visit Cork in Darfur talk

A SENIOR African cleric will visit Cork next week to raise awareness of the suffering of people caught up in the Darfur conflict.

Bishop Macram Gassis of the Diocese of El Obeid in Sudan, which includes the famine-stricken, war-torn territory of Darfur, will be in Cork on Monday and Tuesday. He will address students at the Cork Institute of Technology in Bishopstown. On Monday, he will address a free public meeting in the college theatre at 7pm, and on Tuesday he will address a student audience at the same venue at 11am.

University College Cork students have also been invited.