Africa

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  10 November 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The civil society of North Kivu to the UN: "Strengthen the Blue Helmets to do away with the armed groups" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - An attack on the Indian Blue Helmets of the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) resulted in the death of a 7-year-old and the injury of 34 people. The explosion of a hand ...
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  10 November 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - 37 publishing houses participate in the "Coptic Book Fair" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - There are 37 publishing houses involved these days in "Coptic Book Fair", underway until November 22 at the exhibition hall in St Mark's Cathedral in Cairo. The inauguration, which took place on T ...
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  10 November 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Bishops hand over an anti-corruption book to President Kenyatta Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Any officer adversely mentioned and implicated in graft ought to step aside even as investigations proceed. There should be conclusion to investigations and actual convictions for those found g ...
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  9 November 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bishop of Embu: "No to political propaganda from the pulpits and no to vote-buying" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - No to political propaganda from the pulpits of the churches. This was stated by His Exc. Mgr. Paul Njiru Kariuki, Bishop of Embu, Kenya, in a pastoral exhortation sent to the priests and faithfu ...
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  9 November 2016
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Caritas launches a program to assist refugees and local families in northern Uganda Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - More than three thousand South Sudanese families and local refugees are assisted by a Caritas Uganda program in Yumbe district. The program, which lasts one year, is aimed at improving food secu ...
• 9 November 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of the Bishop of Shendam Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On November 5, 2016, the Holy Father appointed Rev. Philip Davou Dung, Priest, Member of the College of Consultors and Treasurer of the Archdiocese of Jos as Bishop of the Diocese of Shen ...
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  8 November 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - Kenyan company creates a website to denounce irregularities in the US elections Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - A Kenyan non-profit company has launched a website which lets voters report irregularities at the polling stations of the US presidential elections being held today, 8 November. "Ushahidi", whi ...
• 8 November 2016
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Appointment of Auxiliary Bishop of Bafoussam Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 7 November 2016 the Holy Father appointed Rev. Mgr. Emmanuel Dassi Youfang, of the clergy of Bafoussam, Member of the "Communauté de l'Emmanuel" and Vicar General of the same diocese as ...
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  8 November 2016
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Inauguration of the first hospital in the mountains of Chaone, it will assist 10 thousand people Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "November 3 will become a benchmark for the 21 villages and the 10,000 people living in the mountain who as from today will have the possibility of health care assistance at home, able to defea ...
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  7 November 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Demonstration of the opposition dispersed; reception of Radio Okapi and RFI blacked out Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The police prevented the demonstration in Kinshasa on Saturday, November 5 by the opposition (see Fides 04/11/2016). Officers surrounded the residence of Etienne Tshisekedi, the main opposition ...
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  7 November 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "There is a risk of genocide", said the leading association of the South Sudanese diaspora Juba (Agenzia Fides) - In South Sudan the risk of genocide is real and everything must be done to prevent it, says the Coalition of Advocates for South Sudan (CASS), an association of various groups and organizations of ...
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  4 November 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Woman lynched for blasphemy: the five suspects acquitted Kano (Agenzia Fides) - The five men suspected of having lynched a woman accused of blasphemy in the city of Kano, in northern Nigeria have been acquitted. On June 2, Bridget Patience Agbahime, a 74-year-old street vendor ...
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  4 November 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Tension in Kinshasa for the ban on demonstrations of the opposition planned for tomorrow Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The authorities of the Democratic Republic of Congo have announced a ban on all public demonstrations planned for tomorrow, November 5th. "Le Rassemblement", had announced two major demonstrati ...
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  3 November 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Report on Corruption: vote of no confidence against President Zuma Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - The opposition announced a vote of no confidence against South African President Jacob Zuma after the publication of an official report in which "evidence of possible corruption at the top ...
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  3 November 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Election Crisis: waiting for the outcome of the mediation carried out by the Bishops with the opposition Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Democratic Republic of Congo is waiting for the announcement of a possible agreement between all political forces in order to overcome the political crisis for the failed presidential elect ...