Africa

• 24 January 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Agreement reached on a ceasefire between government and rebels Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Thanks to international pressure an agreement for a cease-fire between the two rival factions of the SPLM (Sudan People's Liberation Movement) that have been fighting in South Sudan since December ...
• 24 January 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - "These attacks will hit back those who committed them" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "These attacks will hit back those who committed them". This is Fr. Rafic Greiche’s belief, spokesman of the Catholic Bishops of Egypt. "Television continues to send images of demonstrations aga ...
• 23 January 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "The State has collapsed, UN intervention is needed": appeal of the Archbishop of Bangui and the Imam Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The new President of the Central African Republic, Ms. Catherine Samba-Panza, swears in today, January 23, in a Country ravaged by fighting between former Seleka rebels and anti-Balaka militia. O ...
• 23 January 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Nothing has come out of the negotiations to end the fighting Juba (Agenzia Fides) – There is no agreement to end the fighting in South Sudan. The talks between the delegation of former President Salva Kiir and Vice President Riek Machar in Addis Ababa have so far not led to any ...
• 22 January 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Bishops express their appreciation for the new Constitution Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The new Egyptian Constitution, which was approved with a majority of 98 % of the vote in the referendum held on 14 and 15 January, was greeted with satisfaction by the Coptic Catholic Bishops . A ...
• 22 January 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "Links with Cameroon are to be ensured as soon as possible", asks the Minister of Communication Bangui (Agenzia Fides) – It is necessary to secure the road link that connects the Central African Republic to Cameroon. This is the appeal launched in Rome by Adrien Pousson, Minister of Communication of the Central A ...
• 21 January 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Medical care precluded to thousands of people who have no water and food Bentiu (Agenzia Fides) - Because of the ongoing conflict, thousands of people in Bentiu, capital of Unity State in South Sudan, have no medical care, and about 10 thousand displaced are heading towards Leer, in the south ...
• 21 January 2014
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - The Catholic Church saves a dozen children from human trafficking Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Twelve children who had fallen into the clutches of human traffickers have been saved thanks to the efforts of the Diocesan Commission "Justice and Peace" in Kikwit, in Bandundu Province, in th ...
• 21 January 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The new President launches an appeal to lay down arms Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is gradually improving. The election of the new President has brought a bit of hope in the population", say to Fides sources of the local church in Bangui, capital of the Central A ...
• 20 January 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Cardinal Wako launches an appeal for peace in South Sudan Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Gabriel Zubeir Wako, Archbishop of Khartoum, has launched an appeal to political leaders in South Sudan so that they go beyond their personal interest and solve the crisis the Country is e ...
• 20 January 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The testimony of a missionary in the midst of the violence in Central Africa Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Between 8 and 9 January, Seleka burned more than 1,300 homes and killed at least a dozen people in the area of Bozoum. To do this in a context of tensions, is suicide" denounces Fr. Aurelio Gazz ...
• 17 January 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - 68 thousand children vaccinated against measles in the IDP camps in Bangui Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Extreme violence in the capital of the Central African Republic continues. Attacks, lynchings, looting and reprisals happen every day. One hundred thousand displaced persons live in the M'Poko ...
• 17 January 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Christian leaders: "It is an abomination to see a political struggle turned into an ethnic war" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "We are heart-broken to see what was purely a political problem in the ruling party, SPLM (Sudan People's Liberation Movement), quickly slides into an ethnic one on a rapid and frightening scale", ...
• 17 January 2014
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Hery Rajaonarimampianina is the new Head of State Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - Hery Rajaonarimampianina is the new President of Madagascar. This was officially declared on January 17 by the President of the Special Electoral Court (CES), which rejected the appeal pres ...
• 16 January 2014
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - The 8000 Dakar missionaries committed to bringing "the joy of the Gospel" everywhere, Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - Approximately 8000 children and young people of the Archdiocese of Dakar gathered on Sunday 12th January, on the feast of the Baptism of Jesus, at the National Shrine of Popenguine in the sign of ...