Africa

• 23 October 2014
  AFRICA/BENIN - New schooling project for 450 children in the north of the Country Sinendé (Agenzia Fides) - The NGO Educo, born from the union of Intervida and Educación Sin Fronteras, has promoted a project of education and improvement of educational institutions in Sinendé, in northern Benin, 564 ...
• 23 October 2014
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - The Inter-diocesan Assembly of the Catholic Church begins tomorrow Algiers (Agenzia Fides) - Forty representatives of the four Catholic dioceses of Algeria will meet in Algiers on Friday 24and Saturday, 25th October for the National Inter-diocesan Assembly of the Catholic Church. The ...
• 23 October 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - New attacks and another 60 girls kidnapped: the possibility of a truce with Boko Haram vanishes Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Hopes for peace vanishes after 5 people were killed in a bomb attack this morning at a bus station in Azari, in the State of Bauchi (northern Nigeria), and the abduction of 60 girls in the State o ...
• 22 October 2014
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - African Catholic Bishops: "Respect democratic turnover" Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - "The closing of borders is not the solution to Ebola", says the final communiqué of the annual coordination meeting of the Symposium of the Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECA ...
• 22 October 2014
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Ebola, not only death and suffering: MSF celebrates the thousandth survivor Foya (Agenzia Fides) - Since the beginning of the Ebola outbreak in west Africa, MSF has admitted more than 4,500 patients to its care centres. Among these, more than 2,700 were confirmed as having Ebola. Amidst all the ...
• 21 October 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The warring parties recognize their responsibilities in the civil war, "an important step for peace" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "We hope this is a first concrete and decisive step for the cease-fire first and then for true peace", says to Fides Agency Sister Elena Baratti, a Comboni missionary from Juba, capital of South Su ...
• 21 October 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Pilgrimages in the footsteps of the Holy Family Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of representatives and pilgrims from the Philippines took part in the celebration in honor of the Holy Family held on Tuesday, October 21 at the Coptic Museum, in the historic part of ...
• 20 October 2014
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - A cassava field transformed into an ebola treatment center Bo (Agenzia Fides) - A few weeks ago it was a cassava field. Today it is a gleaming tented city made up of four huge tents surrounded by smaller tents and brick-built buildings, intersected by orange fences and dotted wi ...
• 20 October 2014
  AFRICA/LIBIA - Elements of the Islamic State and Boko Haram are in Libya, says the Prime Minister Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - In Libya there are both elements of the so-called Caliphate or Islamic State or (ISIL/ISIS or Daesh in Arabic) and elements of the Nigerian Boko Haram group. This was stated by the Libyan Prime ...
• 20 October 2014
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - "Fair, free and transparent" elections, but not everyone agrees Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - "International observers have described the elections as 'fair, free and transparent' but some groups of local observers do not share this point of view" say to Fides Agency sources of the local ...
• 17 October 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Egyptian Family House grows, liaison body between Muslims and Christians Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Egyptian Family House, liaison body which unites the University of Al Azhar - the highest seat of learning in the Sunni Muslim world - and the Christian churches in Egypt, has decided to inaug ...
• 17 October 2014
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - At least 30 people have died in the guerrilla assault in the town of Beni Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - 30 people have died and 9 injured in the massacre perpetrated in the night between 15 and 16 October by the Ugandan rebels of the ADF-NALU in a neighborhood of the city of Beni, North Kivu (eas ...
• 17 October 2014
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Activities and programs for children and adolescents infected with HIV Dodoma (Agenzia Fides) - According to the 2011-12 Report on indicators of HIV and Malaria in Tanzania, the prevalence of the AIDS/HIV virus in the African country went from 5.7% in 2007 to 5.1% in 2012. Women contract AI ...
• 17 October 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Bishops: "What does the tetanus campaign hide?" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We want the government to come clean on the ongoing tetanus vaccine campaign" ask the Bishops of Kenya who fear that the prophylaxis hides a campaign of forced sterilization concerning women in ...
• 16 October 2014
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "Bombing continues, with less intensity", says the Apostolic Vicar of Benghazi Benghazi (Agenzia Fides) - "Bombings continue, although with less intensity compared to yesterday" says His Exc. Mgr. Sylvester Carmel Magro, Apostolic Vicar of Benghazi to Fides Agency, where the forces of General Khali ...