Africa

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  12 October 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Clashes between police and university students: also a Jesuit injured, for the Bishops "a compromise is needed" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "What the students desire is more equality in access to good education at university level. We support this request. But we do not condone the violence, looting, and vandalizing of property ...
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  11 October 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - About 700 deaths in 120 attacks in two years in the Territory of Beni Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - About 700 civilians have been killed in 120 massacres since October 2014 in the Territory of Beni, in North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, says Human Rights Watch report. The human ...
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  11 October 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Cardinal Onaiyekan: Corrupt judges arrested: "We need a clear and transparent trial to dispel fears of anti-democratic maneuvers" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "This case is a very clear demonstration of the confused situation our Country is experiencing" says to Agenzia Fides Cardinal John Onaiyekan, Archbishop of Abuja, commenting on the arrest on char ...
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  10 October 2016
  AFRICA/MAURITIUS - "My appointment as Cardinal is an encouragement to our Church", said Mgr. Piat Port-Louis (Agenzia Fides) - "My appointment as Cardinal is an encouragement that the Pope gives to our Church of Mauritius in the Year of Mercy: an encouragement to continue to welcome this mercy which makes us feel goo ...
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  10 October 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "Let us commit ourselves, as Catholics, to fight crime and violence" urges a priest Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "The latest crime statistics in South Africa describe a worrying upward trend of violent crimes, and therefore as Catholics we need to translate our commitment into active participation to ...
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  8 October 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - Massacre of Mandera: the police claim to have "vital clues" on the reason and the perpetrators Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We are following crucial leads that would unearth those behind the attack", said Mandera County Commissioner Fredrick Shisia, in northeast Kenya, where on 6 October six people were killed, thr ...
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  8 October 2016
  AFRICA/GHANA - "It is time for Catholics and Anglicans to join hands to fight the social ills of Ghana" says Anglican Primate of the Province of West Africa Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "It is time for the Anglican Church of Ghana and the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference to join hands to fight poverty, child trafficking, climate change and other social ills eating into the fab ...
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  7 October 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Inmate accused of the New Year massacre in the church of Alexandria released from prison Alexandria (Agenzia Fides) - He was released from prison accused of having planned and carried out the attack on New Year's Eve 2011 at the Coptic church of Saints Mark and Peter in Alexandria, Egypt, which caused 23 dea ...
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  7 October 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - "The massacre in Mandera is part of a long sequence of blood", says the Bishop of Garissa Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Once again workers from other parts of Kenya were hit, in a terrorist attack which recalls other attacks committed by the Shabaab in the area, whose victims have always been foreign workers. Th ...
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  6 October 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The government prohibits Coptic demonstrations on the anniversary of "massacre of Maspero" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Egyptian Ministry of Internal Affairs denied the associations of young Copts permission to organize a demonstration on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the massacre known as the "massa ...
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  6 October 2016
  AFRICA/CONGO - Guerrilla in the south of Congo resumes: 23 dead Brazzaville (Agenzia Fides) - 23 people were killed in the attacks committed in late September in the Republic of Congo by former members of the Ninjas Nsiloulou rebel group. This was announced by the Minister of Justice ...
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  6 October 2016
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Illegal migration is bad, yes to legal migration but the key is the development of Africa Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - Africa questions the tragedy of irregular migration which sees many young people often lose their lives in the mirage of a better life in Europe. In Conakry, the capital of the Republic of Guine ...
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  6 October 2016
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The number of deaths due to diarrheal diseases Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The death toll of the recent outbreak of diarrheal diseases in Sudan continues to increase and medical facilities have difficulties in keeping the situation under control. The most vulnerable s ...
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  5 October 2016
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "Fighting at km5 after the killing of a military commander" report Fides sources Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - A Central African army chief, Marcel Mombeka, was killed yesterday morning near km5, the Muslim area of the Central African Republic capital, Bangui. During the ambush the military’s 14-year-ol ...
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  5 October 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Need to separate presidential, legislative and local elections to overcome the crisis Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Joseph Kabila, confirmed on October 4 the postponement of the presidential elections which were to be held before 19 December, the expiry date ...