Africa

• 17 June 2015
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Women and girls rebel against forced marriage Maroua (Agenzia Fides) - "Aldepa" is an association of women which was established in the northern region of Cameroon, where the phenomenon of child marriage is widespread, and deals with the protection of the victims in ...
• 16 June 2015
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - No to impeachment against the President; one is moving towards the formation of a new government Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - "The deputies are holding meetings to find a way out of the institutional crisis when, on June 13, the High Court rejected the motion of impeachment of President Hery Rajaonarimampianina, w ...
• 16 June 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - "The situation is blocked", say local sources Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "In Bujumbura, the situation is relatively calm, but in some neighborhoods one cannot access because of the barricades": say local sources of Agenzia Fides from the capital of Burundi, who for ...
• 15 June 2015
  AFRICA/SUDAN - "Assurance in South Africa: President Bashir will leave", said a spokesman in Khartoum Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who has been ordered not to leave South Africa by the Pretoria High Court, is still in the country but will leave later on Monday, a Sudanese presidency spoke ...
• 15 June 2015
  AFRICA/KENYA - Even two Westerners among the Shabaab killed in an assault on a military camp Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Kenyan military announced the killing of 11 Somali militants of Al Shabaab, who were part of a commando of 100 men who in the early hours of Sunday, June 14 attacked a military camp in Lumu, ...
• 15 June 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Egyptian Ambassador to the Holy See: Al Sisi has invited Pope Francis to Egypt Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has officially invited Pope Francis to make a visit to Egypt. This is what H. E. Ms. Wafaa Ashraf Moharram Bassim, Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt ...
• 13 June 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Still no contact with the kidnappers of the priest kidnapped Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Diocese of Ekiti has asked the faithful not to enter into negotiations with the kidnappers of Fr. Emmanuel Akingbade, the pastor of St. Benedict of Ido-Elkit (in south-west Nigeria), seized on ...
• 12 June 2015
  AFRICA/GHANA - The Bishops: "let us avoid repeating the language of those who want to destroy the family" Accra (Agenzia Fides) - From 8 to 11 June the preparatory meeting for the Synod on the family to be held in October in Rome was held in Accra (Ghana). According to a statement sent to Agenzia Fides, the meeting, entitled ...
• 12 June 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The UN representative offers himself as a mediator in the national dialogue Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The head of the UN Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO), Martin Kobler, has offered to mediate in the national dialogue (see Fides 02/06/2015) initiated by President Josesph Kabila in view of the upcom ...
• 11 June 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "We are waiting to be contacted by the kidnappers", says the Bishop of Ekiti after the kidnapping of a priest Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We are waiting for the kidnappers of our priest to get in touch with us to tell us their demands in exchange for his release" says His Exc. Mgr. Felix Ajakaye, Bishop of Ekiti. Don Emmanuel Aking ...
• 11 June 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Three people killed in Bujumbura, but for the President the demonstrations have now finished Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "Last night the police killed three people, a woman and two children, in a neighborhood in Bujumbura, where so far there had been no demonstrations" refer local sources from the Burundian capi ...
• 10 June 2015
  AFRICA/KENYA - A shelter for 129 small children with Aids Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - A place where to find shelter, where everyone knows who they are and what they need, from medicines, food and a family. We are talking about Nyumbani children’s home in Nairobi, which includes ...
• 10 June 2015
  AFRICA - "The main problem in Africa is the crisis of values", says a UN African Special Representative Libreville (Agenzia Fides) - "The main problem in Africa is the crisis of values", said the UN Special Representative for Central Africa, the Senegalese Abdoulaye Bathily, during a meeting of Heads of the UN missions, wh ...
• 10 June 2015
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Fleeing insecurity and epidemics, Burundians pour into Uganda Kampala (Agenzia Fides) – More than 7, ooo Burundian refugees, mostly women and children, had arrived in Uganda through Rwanda and Tanzania. The cholera outbreak and worsening sanitation conditions in some of the refug ...
• 10 June 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - New appeal of Christian leaders to stop the "senseless war" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "Stop immediately this senseless war that is bringing immense suffering to the South Sudanese people". This is the urgent appeal of the new South Sudan Council of Churches (SSCC). The appeal, whic ...