Only 30,000 of these were returning Irish citizens ... fleeing the Emerald Isle came from the Great Famine of 1845-52 - where the failure of the potato crop left families destitute and starving.

Deirdre O’Mahony’s thought-provoking new exhibition FARMWORK continues at the Void Art Centre until Saturday week, March 8.

But I’m also concerned that it might be the start of the dreaded box blight. There are so many different ... John Duggan, Co Clare, Ireland Grown in many Irish gardens and traditionally ...

One of the casualties of suspending funding for USAID programs and threatening to shut the agency down has been FEWS NET, the global Famine Early Warning System, which I helped create 40 years ago ...

GENEVA, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Medical charity MSF has been forced to suspend its activities in a famine-stricken camp in Sudan's North Darfur because of heavy fighting in the area, it said on Monday.

Famine was first declared in Zamzam in August, after 15 months of war. It has since spread to two more displacement camps near El-Fasher. A UN-backed assessment expects the famine to expand to ...

(AP Photo) This is a locator map for Sudan with its capital, Khartoum. (AP Photo) CAIRO (AP) — All roads around Sudan’s famine-stricken Zamzam camp in North Darfur are blocked and the security ...

This combo shows Zamzam refugee camp and market buildings, outside the Darfur town of al-Fasher, Darfur region, Sudan, before being attacked, on Tuesday Jan. 14, 2025, left, and after being ...