Africa

• 28 February 2014
  AFRICA/TANZANIA – Zanzibar police says “no religious motives behind bomb blasts” Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - “Exaggeration should be avoided ; there are neither religious nor political motives behind the violence” said chief of Zanzibar police, Hamdani Omar, in a press conference in Zanziba ...
• 27 February 2014
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - 50,000 Somali children at risk for malnutrition and inadequate sanitation Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) – In Somalia the famine of 2011 has ended, Mogadishu is rid of militia, in politics there has been marked progress. Never the less the United Nations Organisation and the Somali government ...
• 27 February 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - “Let us work together for peace”: Bishop Taban urges Muslim community Juba (Agenzia Fides) – A call to the Muslim community in the country to work together with Christians for peace in South Sudan has been launched by Bishop Paride Taban, emeritus Bishop of Torit, also chairman of the So ...
• 27 February 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - “Move army command to epicentre of Boko Haram violence” Nigerian Senate orders Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Nigeria is still shocked after the killing of more than 40 students in a dormitory of the government run Buni-Yadi college in the north eastern state of Yobe, during the night of 25 February. The ...
• 26 February 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC – Work goes on at Bangui university despite chaos Bangui (Agenzia Fides) – A group of young people at Bangui University, under the guidance of local Jesuit Fathers, continues to keep the doors of the college open despite extreme violence and political disorder which ...
• 26 February 2014
  AFRICA/MALI – More than 3 million suffer food shortage, some 50,000 could starve to death before the end of 2014 Bamako (Agenzia Fides) – In Mali some 136,000 children are severely undernourished , a pathology which registers high mortality rates, and another 360,000 are moderately undernourished According to latest reports iss ...
• 25 February 2014
  AFRICA/LYBIA - “These extremists are shedding innocent blood to get more visibility” says Archbishop Martinelli Bengasi (Agenzia Fides) - “It is not clear what these extremists really want. They would appear to be shedding the blood of innocent victims to get more visibility. Orthodox Coptic Christians have been their target for ...
• 25 February 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - “Our place is here”: caring for mothers and infants in need of medical attention Yirol (Agenzia Fides) – War is making it ever more difficult to help mothers and infants in need. Caring for the most vulnerable is the constant commitment of Medici Africa Cuamm in the martyred land of South Sudan. T ...
• 25 February 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT – New rules for election of Orthodox Coptic Pope examined by civil authorities Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – The Synod of Orthodox Coptic Bishops has approved new regulations for the election of a Patriarch. The rules are now being examined by the Presidency of the Arab Republic of Egypt. Fides was to ...
• 25 February 2014
  AFRICA/DR CONGO – United Nations will increase Peacekeeping troops in Katanga, a drama signalled by the country's Catholic Bishops Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The people of Katanga welcome the announcement by the command of MONUSCO (UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo) of a decision to increase its Peacekeeping troops in the southern Co ...
• 24 February 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - “churches and mosques must be rid of armed infiltrators”: say the Catholic Archbishop and the Imam of Bangui Bangui (Agenzia Fides) – It is necessary to disarm “infiltrators” in churches and mosques in order to counteract gangs of militia and looters presently terrorising the country. This appeal has been launched by Arch ...
• 24 February 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Orthodox Christian is the first woman elected to lead a political party in Egypt Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – Coptic Orthodox Christian, Hala Shukrallah, elected head of the Constitution Party, is the first woman leader of a political party in Egypt. Hala Shukrallah succeeds Nobel Mohamed El Baradei, w ...
• 21 February 2014
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - "Unspeakable violence in Katanga" denounce the Bishops of the Province Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us say it loud and clear that our populations are not cannon fodder" say the Bishops of Katanga (in the south of the Democratic Republic of Congo) who denounce the serious situation of the ...
• 21 February 2014
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA – Let's fulfill the aspirations of those who fought for the independence of building a more just Country Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - Fifty years after national independence it is necessary to free the Country from poverty and injustice. This is the meaning of the message, sent to Fides Agency, published by The "Oasis Forum", a ...
• 20 February 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "Civil society needs to be involved in future peace negotiations", said the Nuncio Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Peace talks between the two rival factions: the government and the rebels, are expected to resume today in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, in spite of the fighting involving Malakal, provincial ...