Africa

• 10 October 2013
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - In the wake of the cyclone Haruna Sarodrano (Agenzia Fides) - About 50,000 people were seriously damaged by the cyclone Haruna that, for several days, brought torrential rains on the west coast of Madagascar. The floods ceased completely in May, finally ...
• 9 October 2013
  AFRICA/NIGER - 79,087 cases and 362 children under 5 years of age have died from severe acute malnutrition Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - From January to September this year hundreds of children under 5 years of age died from malnutrition in the central eastern region of Zinder. In Zinder the disease is endemic, according to the la ...
• 9 October 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Tension in North Kivu increases Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Tension in North Kivu (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC) increases due to the transfer, operated without any coordination with the local authorities, of refugees from Tanzania. Accordi ...
• 8 October 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Calm returns in Bangassou. "Now we need to reconcile the souls" says the Bishop Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday we saw Abdallah , the "warlord" who had spread terror in Bangassou. He was put on a plane to be transported to Bangui, where he will be judged for the crimes committed", says to Fides A ...
• 8 October 2013
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - The work of Annalena Tonelli is still alive 10 years after her murder Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - 10 years have gone by since the killing of Annalena Tonelli, the Italian volunteer who for 33 years had assisted the Somali population affected by tuberculosis. Annalena was killed on the even ...
• 7 October 2013
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Eight children have disappeared from Nosy Be Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - There are eight children who have disappeared in recent months from Nosy Be, an island in Madagascar where three people (one French, one Italian and one Malagasy) were tortured and killed b ...
• 4 October 2013
  AFRICA - Lampedusa : "To fight against traffickers and help migrant Countries" proposes Mgr.Bertin Rome (Agenzia Fides) – To put human trafficking organizations under control and help the social, political and economic development of migrant Countries. These are the proposals made in an interview with Fides, by Mgr. ...
• 4 October 2013
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Still tension in Nosy Be after the killing of three people accused of having killed and mutilated a child Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation in Nosy Be is still very tense because the demonstrations of the population continue and the authorities have imposed a curfew at night. At least three Ministers are on the s ...
• 2 October 2013
  AFRICA/KENYA – Interreligious prayer for the victims of the attack at the Westgate Mall Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Religious leaders from Kenya have unanimously condemned the terrorist attack at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi. As reported by CISA Agency, a special interreligious prayer service was held on Oct ...
• 2 October 2013
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - "Do we still have a functioning state? " Asks Caritas Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - "Do we still have a functioning state?". Is the title of the statement sent to Fides Agency by Caritas Zambia in which concern about the deterioration of the state functions in the country are ex ...
• 1 October 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - In Bangassou the population rebels against the abuses of Seleka. "The situation is explosive", warns the Bishop Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "It is an explosive situation that is likely to cause a tragedy" says to Fides Agency Mgr. Juan Jose Aguirre Munos, Bishop of Bangassou, where in the neighborhood of Tokoyo, the inhabitants have ...
• 1 October 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The LRA guerrillas lay down their arms, but the intervention of Seleka threatens to derail the agreement Bangui (Agenzia Fides) – The rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), the armed group of Ugandan origin that wreaks havoc in a vast area between South Sudan, north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Centra ...
• 30 September 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The mission of Our Lady of Fatima in Bouar ransacked Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - An Italian missionary and a Central African deacon are the latest victims of the rebels Seleka. "On September 28, Fr. Beniamino Gusmeroli, an Italian missionary fromValtellina, and Fr. Martial Me ...
• 30 September 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Boko Haram is now composed of fanatics that affect Christians and Muslims," said Bishop Kaigama Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "In the beginning the aim of Boko Haram was to attack Christians in order to destabilize the community. But now the ferocity of the members of this movement has no limits to the point of slaughter ...
• 27 September 2013
  AFRICA/KENYA - Controversy over the assault at Westgate Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – There is growing controversy in Kenya in the aftermath of the dramatic attack at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi by a group linked to the movement of the Somali Shabaab. The security forces are ...