Africa

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  5 February 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "National dialogue" promoted by Kabila struggles to kick off Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - On January 16, the President of the African Union (AU) Commission of the, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, appointed Edem Kojo, former Prime Minister of Togo, as envoy of the AU to conduct the necessary ...
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  4 February 2016
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - UN report: Rwanda trains Burundian refugees in order to overthrow President Nkurunziza Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - A report by UN experts accuses Rwanda of training and arming Burundian refugees welcomed in its territory in order to overthrow the President of Burundi Pierre Nkurunziza. The group of UN exp ...
• 4 February 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Patriarch Tawadros begins his visit to the dioceses: let us say no to domestic violence Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Domestic violence, whose victims are mainly women and children, represent a devastating social phenomenon that has severe effects on people's lives and also on civil society. This is what Coptic O ...
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  4 February 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Catholic Church welcomes the President's decision to reject the proposed Religious Societies Rules 2015, intended to regulate Churches Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Kenya welcomes the decision of President Uhuru Kenyatta to reject the proposed Religious Societies Rules 2015, (see Fides 30/01/2016) that had sparked protests by Catholic ...
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  3 February 2016
  AFRICA/MALAWI - "The rain is back, let us begin to hope, but the situation is very difficult" Lilingwe (Agenzia Fides) - "Now the rain has reappeared and the country can begin to hope" writes to Agenzia Fides Fr. Piergiorgio Gamba, Monfortan missionary in Malawi, after "two long weeks without a drop of rain durin ...
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  3 February 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - More violence in the east cause the exodus of local people Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Mass Exodus of the Nande community from the village of Miriki, in the Territory of Lubero, in North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. This is reported in a statement sent to Agenzia F ...
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  1 February 2016
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - The whole community in Nguluwe at work to renovate the school Chipata (Agenzia Fides) - The holiday season and the rains which have just begun have not disturbed the renovation of the school in Nguluwe carried out by skilled workers, made available by the Chipata DEBS - District Ed ...
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  1 February 2016
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - After the decision of AU not to send a peacekeeping force: "We are disappointed but we do not lose hope" Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "The decision of the African Union (AU) not to send a peacekeeping force in Burundi was disappointing, but all is not lost" local sources told Agenzia Fides from Burundi, who for security reas ...
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  1 February 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic professor sentenced for insulting Islam: His students mocked jihadist barbarism Minya (Agenzia Fides) - The court of Beni Mazar sentenced a Coptic teacher on charges of insulting Islam, to three years in prison. The episode happened last spring, at a village school in Nasiriyya, near the town of Ben ...
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  1 February 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishop of Maiduguri: "The assault and the massacre in the village of Dalori is a challenge to the army" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a challenge to the army of Nigeria", says to Agenzia Fides, His Exc. Mgr. Oliver Dashe Doeme, Bishop of Maiduguri, capital of Borno State, in northern Nigeria, near which lies the village o ...
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  29 January 2016
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - "Our only hope is an intervention on behalf of the international community" Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "The satellite images confirm what the people of Burundi are finding out on their own" local sources from Burundi told Agenzia Fides, where at least a dozen mass graves containing the bodies o ...
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  29 January 2016
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - The Bishops in view of the elections in August: "No to discrimination and incitement to hatred" Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - The multiparty democracy in Zambia is at risk for the spread of intolerance, regionalism and tribalism. This is what the Bishops of Zambia say in a statement issued at the end of their Plenary As ...
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  28 January 2016
  AFRICA/MOROCCO - Two hundred and fifty Islamic scholars sign the Marrakech Declaration calling for religious freedom for all Rabat (Agenzia Fides) – An appeal to develop an Islamic jurisprudence on the concept of citizenship, that is inclusive of all groups, was signed on January 27 by 250 leading Islamic scholars gathered in Marrakech, at t ...
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  28 January 2016
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "Is there a real political will to defeat the LRA?" asks the Bishop of Bossangoa Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "The LRA rebels continue to enslave villagers, making them load carriers and sex slavesand they are also burning down villages", says His Exc. Mgr. Nestor Desire Nongo-Aziagbia, Bishop Bossangoa ...
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  28 January 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Ten Coptic workers in prison for having built an "illegal" wall Samalout (Agenzia Fides) - Ten Coptic men were arrested while they were building a fence wall for the Coptic church in the village of Abu Hennis, near the city of Salamout, in the governorate of Minya. The news was repor ...