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- Obama 'wants to visit Ireland'
Barack Obama wants to visit Ireland, the new ambassador to the Republic has said, but it is hard to see when he will have the time
- Sudan: Two foreign aid workers kidnapped in Darfur: officials
Source: Agence France-Presse (AFP) KHARTOUM, July 3, 2009 (AFP) - Two women aid workers from Ireland and Uganda were kidnapped Friday by armed men in Sudan's volatile Darfur region, the scene of Africa's longest running conflict, officials told AFP.
- Irish aid worker kidnapped in Sudan
A 32-year-old Dublin woman is one of two aid workers kidnapped in Sudan. Sharon Commins and a 42-year-old Ugandan woman work for the Irish charity GOAL. They were taken by an armed gang of six men from their compound in the north Darfur town of Kutum at
- Ghanaians in Ireland donate to psychiatric ward in Ghana
July 2009 A two member delegation of the Association of Ghanaian Professionals in Ireland (AGPI) paid a two week working visit to Ghana. The delegation included Dr Vincent Agyapong, Chairperson of AGPI and Mr Mark Mantey, an Executive member of AGPI. The
- 2 foreign workers taken in Darfur-officials
KHARTOUM - Two women aid workers from Ireland and Uganda were kidnapped Friday by armed men in Sudan's volatile Darfur region, the scene of Africa's longest running conflict, officials told Agence France Presse. 'Unidentified armed men came to the
- Aid workers kidnapped in Darfur
CAIRO T Noureddine Mezni, a spokesman for the United Nations-African Union force, says the two women work for an Irish aid group called GOAL. He says they were seized Friday night from the Kutum region in north Darfur. He says one of the women is Irish
- Gunmen seize Irish, Ugandan aid workers in northern Darfur
Gunmen abducted two female aid workers in Darfur on Friday, said the international peacekeeping mission in the western region of Sudan. It was the third kidnapping of foreign humanitarian workers since March, when an international court issued a warrant
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A failed 1916 Easter Monday Rebellion touched off several years of guerrilla warfare that in 1921 resulted in independence from the UK for the 26 southern counties; the six northern counties (Ulster) remained part of Great Britain. In 1948 Ireland withdrew from the British Commonwealth; it joined the European Community in 1973. Irish governments have sought the peaceful unification of Ireland and have cooperated with Britain against terrorist groups. A peace settlement for Northern Ireland, approved in 1998, has not yet been implemented.
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AFP - South Africa play the British and Irish Lions in the third and final Test here Saturday with the series already sewn up and seeking a first-ever whitewash in 118 years of fixtures between the two sides.
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