State to buy 56,400 bags, 11,000 umbrellas and 6,000 lapel pins with EU presidency branding
Government ordering €600,000 of goods to give away to mark its leadership role in bloc from July
Ethiopia
An activist looking to help hungry children over politicians hungry for the White House
Given President Trump’s attacks on food aid, much of Billy Shore’s work is done at local level
Sex offender mistakenly released from UK prison deported to Ethiopia
Hadush Kebatu assaulted girl (14) and a woman and was arrested after two-day manhunt in London
Wars and aid cuts fuelling surge in world hunger, report warns
Global Hunger Index says possibility of achieving the UN goal of zero hunger by 2030 is ‘slipping away’
Deaths from famine are rising from Sudan to Gaza as leaders use food as a weapon
After decades of decline, the numbers perishing from hunger are increasing as starvation spreads
Live Aid at 40: Bob Geldof emerges from this less sanitised version of events seeming somehow more admirable
This three-parter makes a compelling case for just one more go around one of the best-documented events in cultural memory
War and aid cuts pushing Sudanese refugees in Ethiopia to work in illicit gold mines
Workers at the gold mines along the Kurmuk-Assosa road face exposure to harmful chemicals such as mercury and cyanide
‘The ground split ... we decided to leave’: Families in Ethiopia displaced by earthquakes face uncertain future
The response to December’s earthquake in the struggling Afar region has been hit by US aid cuts
Abstract artist keeps students in frame from his Ethiopian exile
Sudanese school dean educates remotely from Addis Ababa
‘I landed in Addis Ababa for a challenge that blended my love of running with a commitment to those in need’
In the 40th anniversary year of Live Aid, New York-based Bray man Mark O’Toole explains what motivated him to do the Great Ethiopian Run
Ed Sheeran and Mary Robinson are right. It’s time to bin Band Aid
Band Aid revisionism hasn’t dropped from the clear blue winter sky. It’s been there since the start
Global South must be saved from fossil fuels and other climate-harming practices
Ethiopia is among many countries suffering hunger, poverty and misery due to the Global North’s destruction of the planet and its banks financing damaging agricultural programmes and fossil fuel expansion
Sampa the Great: ‘For the first time, we’re not asked to add more English. I can just sing in my language’
Africa’s biggest stars are filling stadiums, winning Grammys and forging collaborations across the world. It’s finally putting them in control of their stories
Ethiopia: Death toll from landslides caused by heavy rain climbs to 229, official says
First landslide buried people in country’s southern Gofa zone before a second one engulfed those who came to help
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