Africa

• 12 April 2013
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - "I found signs of hope," said Bishop Bertin who has just returned from Mogadishu Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - "I found concrete signs of hope even if the new state institutions are not yet in full control of the situation," says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Giorgio Bertin, Bishop of Djibouti and Apos ...
• 12 April 2013
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - The Bishops of Southern Africa demand free and transparent elections Harare (Agenzia Fides) -To ensure transparent elections that take place in a peaceful atmosphere away from violence. This is the request made by a delegation of IMBISA (Inter-Regional Meeting of Bishops of Southern Afric ...
• 11 April 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Pope Tawadros II’s secretary: five guidelines to do away with religious conflicts Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "We are tired of palliatives. There is need for concrete measures." This is how Father Makari Habibi, personal secretary of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II, ruled in favor of the provisi ...
• 10 April 2013
  AFRICA/MALI - Refugees, food shortages and mine clearance: new emergencies in the Country Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The security situation in Bamako and in most of the Country have improved, but we still have the problem of refugees and displaced persons to be accommodated in their places of origin," says to ...
• 9 April 2013
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Refugee camps are collapsing due to another stream of Congolese Kigali (Agenzia Fides) - In Rwanda the camps hosting refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are almost full after another stream of people fled insecurity in the regions of eastern DRC. The thousands of Con ...
• 9 April 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - The South African troops have withdrawn from Bangui in the north of the Congo. Ready for revenge? Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Not only IDPs and refugees (mostly women and children) from Central African Republic have found reception in the province of Equator (in the north of the Democratic Republic of Congo), but also ...
• 8 April 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Refugees without parents: at least 2000 children Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - It is estimated that in the Democratic Republic of Congo (CAR), there are about 22,100 refugees from the Central African Republic (CAR), and that 40% of these are children aged between 2 to 14 se ...
• 8 April 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Assault against the Coptic Cathedral of St. Mark. Patriarch Tawadros calls everyone to remain calm Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The assault suffered in the afternoon of Sunday, April 7 against St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Abassyia in Cairo - where the funeral of four Coptic Christians killed two days before in a ...
• 8 April 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - At least 12 policemen died in an attack claimed by MEND Abuja (Agenzia Fides)-The Movement for the Emancipation of the Delta (MEND) claimed responsibility for the attack on 6 April in the lagoon of Azuzama, Bayelsa State, southern Nigeria, in which at least 12 policemen were ...
• 5 April 2013
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Clashes between police and Renamo: at least 4 victims Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - 4 people have died and 16 injured in the attack in the early hours of the morning by the men of the Renamo, the main opposition party in Mozambique, at the police command in Muxungué, in the pro ...
• 5 April 2013
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The continuous bombing on villages in the Nuba Mountains aims to drive out the civilians Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The Air Force of Khartoum continues to bomb villages of the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan, State of Sudan on the border with South Sudan, where a strong military confrontation has long been ...
• 4 April 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros: I will go to Rome to meet Pope Francis Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Coptic Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria, Tawadros II, has expressed his desire to go to Rome to meet Pope Francis. According to Egyptian media sources - such as the daily Al-Masry Al-Youm - th ...
• 4 April 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "The people of Bangassou are terrorized by armed bandits" denounces the local Bishop Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "I would love to be with my people in this difficult moment but I am stuck in Bangui" says to Fides Agency Mgr. Juan José Aguirre Muños, Bishop of Bangassou, from the capital of the Central Afr ...
• 4 April 2013
  AFRICA - Africa among the continents most affected by the scourge of landmines Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Out of 110 million mines scattered around the world, 44 million are in Africa according to the latest statistics. These weapons still pose a threat to the lives of present and future generations, ...
• 3 April 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Jesuits’ initiative against weapons that fuel the crisis in the Great Lakes Region Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – To raise the awareness of the international public opinion on the crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and to monitor the flow of weapons that fuel the war in the region. The ...