Africa

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  20 May 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "The liberation of the girls in Chibok is an important sign", said Cardinal Onaiyekan Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The question we must ask ourselves is: they were abducted two years ago, why haven’t we found them yet?" asks Cardinal John Onaiyekan, Archbishop of Abuja, to Agenzia Fides, commenting on the r ...
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  19 May 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Bishops are against the closure of Dadaab, the largest refugee camp in the world Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "The closure of the refugee camp in Dadaab will undoubtedly have consequences not only for hundreds of thousands of refugees but for the entire region", say the Catholic Bishops of Kenya in a st ...
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  19 May 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The massacres in eastern Congo are the result of links between politics, ethnicities and exploitation of resources Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - About fifty people were killed in the first week of May, in North Kivu (DRC): about forty in Beni area, in the north, presumably by militiamen of the Allied Democratic Forces ( ADF), and a doze ...
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  18 May 2016
  AFRICA/GHANA - The Church is betting on young people to eradicate corruption "endemic cancer" Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "Corruption is an endemic cancer that has reached the summit of the Country", warned His Exc. Mgr. Joseph Osei- Bonsu, Archbishop of Konongo-Mampong and President of the Episcopal Conference of Gh ...
• 18 May 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The Archbishop of Juba: "there is completely no foundation for us to hate ourselves because of the tribes" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us think of togetherness, let us talk about unity, I think what went wrong with us was because of lack of unity among us the 64, 65 tribes did not succeed to come together and understand thems ...
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  17 May 2016
  AFRICA/MAURITANIA - Almost half of Mauritanians live in dramatic poverty Nuakchot (Agenzia Fides) - 44% of Mauritania's rural population lives in a situation of crippling poverty, particularly in rural regions. This is what the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Extreme Pov ...
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  17 May 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Civil society’s appeal: "President, stop the massacres in the territories of Beni and Lubero" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - 1,116 people have been killed savagely between October 2014 and May 2016 in the territories of Beni and Lubero (North Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo) by various armed groups, in p ...
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  17 May 2016
  AFRICA/GAMBIA - Trade with Senegal continues to be blocked, there is a lack of primary goods Banjul (Agenzia Fides) - Negotiations between Gambia and Senegal to solve the blocking of cross-border transport which for three months have been preventing trade between the two countries have failed. As previously repo ...
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  16 May 2016
  AFRICA/CHAD - Thousands of Sudanese refugees in Chad are in desperate need of help N'Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - Sudanese refugees in Goz Amer camp, eastern Chad, complain about a severe shortage of humanitarian aid, health care and food services. A group of refugees in the camp, in an interview to a loc ...
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  16 May 2016
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Christian and Islamic NGOs together to promote peace Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Interfaith Partnership for the consolidation of peace in the Central African Republic (CIPP)". This is the name of a joint project funded by a group of Christian and Islamic NGOs to support the ...
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  16 May 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The draft law on the construction of places of worship presented to Parliament Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The draft law on the construction of places of worship was presented today, May 16, to the competent offices of the Egyptian Parliament, which will discuss and comment on the new legislation in co ...
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  14 May 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - Concern of the Church for the closure of refugee camps Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – There is great concern regarding the announcement of the Kenyan government to close the refugee camps in Dadaab (considered the largest refugee camp in the world with over 320,000 people, mos ...
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  14 May 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Archbishop of Lagos: "Stop the attacks against farmers" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Mgr. Alfred Adewale Martins, Archbishop of Lagos, has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari so that the government intervenes to put an end to the massacres committed by Fulani herdsmen in the so ...
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  13 May 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bishops to Catholic journalists: "report the positive news of Africa" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Africa is often times portrayed as a continent of gloom and doom and societal failures of ethnocentrisms, violent conflicts, corruption, epidemics like HIV/AIDs and Ebola" complained Fr. Chrisa ...
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  13 May 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Appeal of an Assumptionist father: "President, intervene to stop the massacres in North Kivu" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "President, I ask you to take an interest in what is happening in Beni, in Kivu. Could you take into consideration a serious inquiry for a proper justice?". Is the appeal in a letter to the Pre ...