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On 21 January 2010 the National Assembly of Angola passed a new Constitution into law that replaces the Constitution of 1992. The main opposition party, UNITA, boycotted the session, stating that the ruling MPLA party had abused its majority, in favor of increasing the powers of the President and undermining democracy.

On March 4-5, 2010, at an historic event in Guatemala City,  during a session of  the Court of Conscience against Sexual Violence committed against women during the armed conflict in Guatemala, indigenous women came forward to give their testimonies of sexual violence committed against them during Guatemala’s armed conflict  from 1960-1996.

One hundred and fifty students from St Mac Daras Community School will 'bike it' 4,000km this weekend, the distance from Dublin to Bolivia, to raise funds for Trocaire.

More than 300 people are feared killed after torrential rain caused a series of landslides in a mountainous region in Uganda's east.

Rescuers are digging through the mud on the slopes of Mount Elgon with small tools as diggers cannot reach the area.

More than 80 deaths have been confirmed, with at least 250 more people still missing.

A team of Tróaire's partners from the international Caritas federation is assessing the needs of the communities affected. The area is very hard to reach and the Ugandan military have been using helicopters to access the communities that are affected.