Africa

• 15 April 2024
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The civil war began a year ago and does not seem to want to end Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Around 16,000 dead and over 8 million displaced and refugees: the worst displacement crisis in the world. These figures illustrate the humanitarian tragedy of Sudan's forgotten war, which broke ...
• 15 April 2024
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Floods in Rufiji: Hundreds displaced, crops destroyed, population at risk of epidemics and malnutrition Muhoro (Agenzia Fides) - The Rufiji region in western Tanzania is facing enormous difficulties and the district is facing one of the worst humanitarian crises. Thousands of people need immediate humanitarian assistance i ...
• 12 April 2024
  AFRICA/KENYA - Religion is an instrument of peace and not of war: the conclusions of the seminar in Nairobi promoted by the Dicastery for interreligious dialogue Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Religion must not be exploited to fuel conflicts which are instead determined by political, strategic and economic factors. This is the meaning of the message published at the conclusion of the ...
• 11 April 2024
  AFRICA/TOGO - University academics are asking to stop the process of adopting the new Constitution Lomè (Agenzia Fides) - In Togo, where the Gnassingbé family has been in power for over 50 years, there will be no future presidential elections after Togolese deputies approved a new constitution between March 25 and 2 ...
• 11 April 2024
  AFRICA/GHANA - Scholarships for disadvantaged students awarded to children of the elite: "This must stop" Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "When you sit on the money for the poor, they will cry and God will hear them", warns John Bonaventure Kwofie, archbishop of Accra, commenting on the misappropriation of funds for scholarships int ...
• 10 April 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Nigeria questions the role of the military after the massacre of 17 soldiers in a village in Delta State Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - What role does the military play in the life of the country? This is the question being asked in Nigeria after the massacre carried out on March 14th of 17 soldiers, including 4 officers, by the y ...
• 9 April 2024
  AFRICA/NIGER - Nine months after the coup: an analysis by Mauro Armanino Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Nine months have passed from the end of July last year to April this year, the period of pregnancy. The military coup was relatively unexpected and was particularly surprisi ...
• 8 April 2024
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - The President declares a national emergency on drug abuse; Caritas had raised the alarm some time ago Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - "It is my solemn duty as President... to declare a national emergency on drug abuse". Thus the President of Sierra Leone Julius Maada Bio addressed the population to announce the creation of an ...
• 5 April 2024
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Bishop of Moramanga: "The population is materially poor but spiritually rich" Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - "The diocese of Moramanga is a relatively new diocese and the challenges that the Church faces here concern, above all, the creation of new structures and the training of pastoral workers, ...
• 5 April 2024
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Appointment of the Bishop of Kwito-Bié Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 28, the Holy Father appointed the Reverend Vicente Sanombo, of the clergy of the archdiocese of Huambo, until now vicar general and parish priest of the Cathedral, as bishop of the ...
• 4 April 2024
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - Resignation and appointment of archbishop of Tunis Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the archdiocese of Tunis, Tunisia, presented by Archbishop Ilario Antoniazzi. The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Ni ...
• 4 April 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - New Islamist attacks in the east of the country: 30,000 students cannot go to school due to insecurity Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - At least 10 people were killed and several buildings burned down in an attack by ADF militants in the rural municipality of Mangina, in the Beni area, in the province of North Kivu, in the east ...
• 3 April 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The bishop of Sokoto: "Let us develop agriculture to give dignity to our people" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "No one should queue for help when we are not at war" says Matthew Hassan Kukah, bishop of Sokoto, in his Easter message, entitled "It is time to heal". In the message Msgr. Kukah lists what he be ...
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  3 April 2024
  Genocide in Rwanda, 30 years later. When fratricidal hatred lacerated even the heart of the Church by Stefano Lodigiani Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Will it ever be possible to give an exact figure for the massacres, the wounded, the refugees, the orphans that the Rwandan drama has sown on African soil? The dimensions ...
• 27 March 2024
  AFRICA/KENYA - Appointment of auxiliary bishop of Eldoret Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Revrend John Kiplimo Lelei, of the clergy of Eldoret, Kenya, until now vicar general, as auxiliary bishop of the same diocese, assigning him the titular se ...