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The Journal’s Niall O’Connor is reporting from the border – he met Cathal Berry and Gerard Craughwell.
Niall O’Connor reports from the Polish/Ukraine border.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said at least 40 survivors were being treated for their injuries in hospitals.
The latest death toll stood at 429, with 1,485 people injured.
The announcement was made by the UN today.
The medical charity said its treating critically ill children for diseases that can be vaccinated against.
The UN has described the crisis as the fastest growing humanitarian crisis in the world.
Concern says it helped 22.6 million people in 27 of the world’s poorest countries in 2016.
Famine was declared in the new African country on Monday, which has been embroiled in civil conflict for years.
The UN’s last humanitarian access to the four towns was in November.
The vessel overturned off the port city of Rosetta in Egypt, police and health officials said.
They are reported to be staying in a former police barracks in Berlin.
The U2 frontman said people are not fleeing because “they want to live in Italy or Ireland”.
Food scarcities, rocketing transport costs, closures to schools and clinics – an on-the-ground account of the situation in Liberia.
The Central African Republic doesn’t stir associations like Liberia or Egypt, and this anonymity is contributing to human suffering of catastrophic proportions.
The agency warns that with the ongoing civil war in Syria, aid workers will be stretched.
Irish troops will go to Mali next month, where approximately 375,000 people have been displaced due to internal conflict. The immense humanitarian fallout of the situation must not be overlooked, writes Emilia Sorrentino.
The humanitarian body says relief agencies are struggling to cope with the volume of refugees, who number 5,000 a day.
The additional Irish Aid funding will go towards to delivering vital assistance – including food, water, sanitation and medical supplies – to more than 700,000 Syrian refugees.
Médecins Sans Frontiéres says that thousands of refugees are at risk of dying from illnesses that are entirely preventable.
As South Sudan marks a year of independence, Medecins Sans Frontieres is calling for urgent intervention as one refugee camp in a wholly unsuitable area is overwhelmed with new arrivals and dreadful conditions.
Here’s what you need to know about ongoing problems between North African states Sudan and South Sudan.
Plan Ireland’s report on Haiti two years after earthquake reveals major challenges as other NGOs also note scale of work required for country to recover will need international investment.
A Somali coordinator for Medecins Sans Frontieres tells the story of the forgotten tens of thousands trapped and starving to death within Somalia’s war-torn districts.
The UN has begun to move people to into extended camps as the numbers of refugees swell – while aid agencies appeal for continued support to help battle the crisis.
Concern video shows extent of humanitarian crisis in refugee camps as militants threatening to ban return of aid agencies not already on the ground.
Countries in East Africa are in the grip of the worst drought in 60 years, with millions facing starvation.
A photo-essay from Oxfam in Ethiopia and a first-hand account from a Concern worker in Somalia paint a stark picture of the worst drought in the Horn of Africa in 60 years.
Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are close to yet another famine, after their driest period in around 60 years.