Africa

• 2 September 2013
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Emergency for women and children in refugee camps Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - More than a million people still live scattered in Somalis refugee camps, among them women and children who live every day at great risk of violence of all kinds. Forced to flee and abandon th ...
• 31 August 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA – More witnesses on the fury against Christians Bangui ( Agenzia Fides) - A delegation from the diocese of Bouar went to Bohong (80 km from Bouar, in the west of the Central African Republic) where on Sunday, August 18 priests and nuns of the Sœurs de la Charité wer ...
• 31 August 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Rwanda says it was bombarded by the Congolese army. The UN "evidence on the support of Kigali to the rebels" Kinshasa ( Agenzia Fides) - Rwanda has accused government forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo of having fired artillery against its own territory, killing a woman and injuring her son. The authorities in Kinshasa ...
• 31 August 2013
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA – Death of Cardinal Mazombwe, Archbishop Emeritus of Lusaka Lusaka ( Agenzia Fides) - Strong emotion in Zambia for the death, on August 29, of Cardinal Medardo Joseph Mazombwe, Archbishop Emeritus of Lusaka. In a statement sent to Fides Agency by the Episcopal Conference of Zamb ...
• 30 August 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA – Seven people killed by the rebels Seleka in the north-west of the Country Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Still chaos and violence in the Central African Republic, a country that has been defined recently at risk of "Somalization" by French President François Hollande. The uncontrolled elements of t ...
• 30 August 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - "17 artillery shells fired on Goma" denounce the Congolese NGOs Kinshasa ( Agenzia Fides ) - "A total of 17 artillery shells were fired on civilian targets, which resulted in loss of life, severe damage to property and a generalized fear in the popular areas of Goma", said a statemen ...
• 29 August 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Real believers are working for peace", say Christian and Muslim leaders Abuja (Agenzia Fides ) - "Those who claim to know God must love his neighbor and live in peace with everyone", said Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan, Archbishop of Abuja to the interfaith seminar held at the Central Mo ...
• 29 August 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - New bombing on Goma, but the rebels have suffered heavy losses Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Still more bombing on Goma, the capital of North Kivu ( eastern Democratic Republic of Congo) where the regular Congolese army, supported by the Brigade for UN intervention, is fighting against ...
• 28 August 2013
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Displaced Congolese: victims of a serious car accident in Uganda Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - 17 deaths, 30 seriously injured, another twenty slightly injured. This is the toll of a serious road accident in Uganda whose victims are Congolese refugees who fled from Kamango, in the territo ...
• 27 August 2013
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Increase sea fishing to contibuire the fight against poverty Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - The industrial maritime fisheries sector, which accounts for 35% of the total activity of fishing in Angola, is being relaunched in the African country to fight hunger and poverty. According to t ...
• 27 August 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Christian Churches defend the Imam of Al Azhar against the attacks by Erdogan Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Secretary General of the Council of Christian Churches in Egypt, Father Bishoy Helmy, has rejected and deplored, on behalf of the Egyptian Christians, the hostile statements aimed at Turkish P ...
• 27 August 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - A testimony from Goma Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Life goes on, and the situation is calm. The fighting between the army and rebels of the M23 is far from the city, although from 22 to 24 August Goma was hit by long-range artillery fire" say ...
• 26 August 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Kinshasa accuses: "Goma hit by the Rwandese territory" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The tension between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda increases after the Congolese government accused Kigali of having hit Goma, capital of North Kivu (in the north-east of the DRC), ...
• 24 August 2013
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Luanda, the most expensive city in the world where many do not have anything and just few have everything Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - In 2010, Luanda was ranked as the most expensive city in the world, even before Geneva, Moscow or Tokyo. Unfortunately, the quality of life of African citizens is not remotely comparable to that ...
• 23 August 2013
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - A day of prayer and peace for the Arab world proclaimed by the Church in Tunisia Tunis (Agenzia Fides) -The Catholic Tunisian community has proclaimed a day of prayer and fasting for peace, on Sunday, August 25, in solidarity with the population of the Arab Countries shaken by violence and instabilit ...