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Don't be a mug when you're trying to help...

Thursday October 15 2009

Irish travellers on far away adventure holidays sometimes get involved in aid work -- but too often the good intentions fail to make a difference. Here's why ...

Forget feed the world, let's help it to feed itself

Friday January 02 2009

'We don't want to be putting out the begging bowl, continuously looking for emergency food aid from Europe'

Ethiopia: A feast for the eyes

Saturday November 22 2008

Lose any preconceptions of Ethiopia as a bleak, barren place; Nik Quaife discovered a country rich in culture, history and nature.

48 Hours In: Nairobi

Saturday September 27 2008

Now is the perfect time to visit the Kenyan capital. Frank Partridge reveals the best of East Africa's largest city, from Masai traders, to tropical gardens... and tame giraffes

Africa is giving nothing to anyone -- apart from AIDS

Kevin Myers Thursday July 10 2008

No. It will not do. Even as we see African states refusing to take action to restore something resembling civilisation in Zimbabwe, the begging bowl for Ethiopia is being passed around to us, yet again.

€200 to be barefoot? I honestly don't get it

Saturday May 24 2008

My wife has it, but only mildly. My mother had a bad dose of it, but kept it more or less secret until the end. My three-year-old daughter has it too, but we not sure if, in her case, it's going to be acute or chronic. It's very common among women, yet doesn't strike many men. No one knows if it's spread through contact, or by flicking through glossy magazines, or via the air-conditioning systems of planes.

Lake Natron in Tanzania is the breeding ground 75 per cent of the world's lesser flamingos

Pollution in paradise

Wednesday May 07 2008

It is one of the world's greatest natural spectacles. More than 500,000 flamingos congregate on the salty shores of Lake Natron in the north of Tanzania every year to breed. And it could be about to end.

Twelve die in Kenya violence after gang boss's wife is killed

Tuesday April 15 2008

Armed members of Kenya's Mungiki gang, angry at the beheading of their political leader's wife, fought paramilitary police on the streets of Nairobi yesterday. Up to 12 people were believed to have been killed.