Africa

• 21 May 2015
  AFRICA/NIGER - Civil society denounces: serious human rights violations in the east of the Country Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Security forces in Niger are committing human rights violations in the region of Diffa, in the east of the Country, where in February a state of emergency was declared because of the raids carrie ...
• 21 May 2015
  AFRICA - Rubber and leather shoes that "stretch" for African children Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - In the world there are hundreds of millions of children who cannot afford to have a pair of shoes. A young American has invented a pair of rubber and leather sandals, made with a system of clamps ...
• 20 May 2015
  AFRICA/KENYA – First beatification in Kenya: the Italian missionary Sr. Irene, "mother all mercy and love" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - On 23rd May, all eyes will be set on Dedan Kimathi University grounds in Nyeri, near the Consolata Mathari Chapel where Italian missionary Sr. Irene Stefani, of the Consolata Missionaries (MC) i ...
• 20 May 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Four Copts kidnapped on the way to the Marian shrine of Jabal al-Tair Minya (Agenzia Fides) – Four young Coptic Christians in the province of Minya, Upper Egypt, were kidnapped along the country road they were walking to reach the ancient church dedicated to the Virgin Mary in the villag ...
• 20 May 2015
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Food insecurity in the north of the Country Maroua (Agenzia Fides) - It becomes increasingly difficult to find food in northern Cameroon especially due to the insecurity caused by Boko Haram which has seriously damaged agriculture and cross-border trade. Aid agenc ...
• 19 May 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - After the failed coup, demonstrations resume against the third presidential term Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "We live in a scary situation, because we fear more violence", say to Fides local sources from Bujumbura, capital of Burundi, after the failed military coup led by General Godefroid Niyombare ...
• 19 May 2015
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - "Radio Mercy" launched, the web-radio of the Catholic Senegalese Church Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - The radio station on the web launched by the Catholic Church of Senegal called "Radio Mercy" proposes moments of prayer, sermons, testimonies, but also religious music and reflection on everything ...
• 19 May 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Arab League welcomes the agreement between the Holy See and the State of Palestine Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Secretary General of the Arab League Nabil Elaraby welcomed "the Vatican recognition of the Palestinian state", national entity whose words will be explicitly mentioned in the global Agreement ...
• 18 May 2015
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "We have to be humble to have the courage to forgive one another", said the Archbishop of Bangui Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "More than ever Central Africans need to be humble in order to find the power of love", says His Exc. Mgr. Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Archbishop of Bangui and President of the Central African Episcopa ...
• 18 May 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - More than a hundred women victims of rape in the attack in Kikamba Bukavu (Agenzia Fides) - NGO Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in the region of Shabunda, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have provided medical care for 127 women who reported being sexually abused after an attack by do ...
• 18 May 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Morsi condemned to death. Coptic Catholic Bishop: "the Church never justifies death penalty for anyone" Assiut (Agenzia Fides) - The death sentence of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi is arousing strong reactions in Egypt and other Countries, starting from Turkey. The Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist organization, i ...
• 18 May 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Prayers and mobilization of the population to demand an end of attacks by Ugandan rebels Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Religious confessions of North Kivu have organized moments of prayer to pray for peace in the province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a prey to repeated violence by various armed grou ...
• 16 May 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Five radio stations attacked during violence over an attempted coup in Bujumbura Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "Attacking news outlets is never a solution, especially when citizens need to know what is happening around them and those in power should be listening to what their people are saying " says S ...
• 15 May 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Coup failed: "The streets of Bujumbura are deserted and the national broadcaster is the only outlet still broadcasting" Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "The streets of Bujumbura are deserted, even though we know that civil society has asked to resume demonstrations against the third term of President Pierre Nkurunziza, who according to rumors ...
• 15 May 2015
  AFRICA/NIGER - Meningitis in Niger: 100 people hospitalized every day in Niamey Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - A meningitis epidemic which has stretched across several regions of Niger has killed 352 people so far, with a total of 5,273 cases recorded by the health authorities since January. The epidemic ...