Africa

• 15 November 2012
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Alarm within easy reach of the capital for a new outbreak of Ebola Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - In Uganda a new outbreak of deadly Ebola is ongoing that so far has recorded two deaths, both belonging to the same family, in Luweero district, 62 kilometers away from the capital Kampala. Last ...
• 15 November 2012
  AFRICA/KENYA - Two thousand farmers have lost their crops due to flooding and they risk serious diseases Kisumu (Agenzia Fides) - Flash floods have washed away the rice harvest of about 2,000 farmers in western Kenya, flooding some of their houses and emptying latrines into watercourses. Officials at the Ministry of Agricul ...
• 15 November 2012
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Patriarch Tawadros II: Coptic Orthodox representatives may withdraw from the Constituent Assembly Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The new Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II hopes that the new Constitution in the process of being drafted retains without modification Article 2 of the previous text of the Constitution - which rec ...
• 14 November 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Nigeria loses $ 7 billion in lost revenue due to the theft of oil Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Nigeria loses about $ 7 billion annually in lost revenue due to theft and loss of oil in the extraction plants and pipelines. According to a report by the International Energy Agency (IEA), a body ...
• 14 November 2012
  AFRICA/KENYA - After the killing of police officers, the government sends the army Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Kenyan government has decided to assign the army to the police in the hunt for the gang responsible for the murder of police officers on November 10, in the village of Baragoi in the north o ...
• 14 November 2012
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Cholera outbreak: lack of health facilities and functional water systems Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - The rate of the spread of cholera decreases in Guinea and Sierra Leone, whereas Guinea-Bissau in past days 1,500 cases and 9 deaths have been reported. Simão Mendes National Hospital, in the cap ...
• 13 November 2012
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - More than 130,000 families at the centre of severe famine in the province of Tete Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - More than 130 000 families are experiencing severe famine in the northwestern province of Tete in Mozambique. The local radio station Radio Mozambique reported that the situation is particularly ...
• 13 November 2012
  AFRICA/KENYA - The killing of 42 policemen highlights the spread of weapons and causes concern for the next election Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - 42 policemen killed, is the latest toll of the massacre that took place on November 10 in the town of Baragoi, in northern Kenya, where for some time the looting of animals among groups of Sambu ...
• 12 November 2012
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - A new home for street children Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - In Luanda, Angola, there are many children who sleep in the streets, in deserted houses or in parks, inhale gasoline to try to cope with hunger and to give themselves courage to survive on the st ...
• 12 November 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Damage to agriculture, boats to rescue people on the roofs of houses: new testimony from flooded areas Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The population has never seen a flood like this," says in a note sent to Fides Agency Brother Damian Krzystof, a Polish missionary, who works in the Apostolic Vicariate of Bomadi, in the Delta St ...
• 12 November 2012
  AFRICA/MALI - The population in favor of military intervention in the north, where the humanitarian situation is worsening Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The majority of the population has welcomed the decision of ECOWAS to send a military force to northern Mali" says to Fides Agency Father Edmond Dembele, Secretary of the Episcopal Conference of ...
• 10 November 2012
  AFRICA/SUDAN - "Force Khartoum to stop the dropping bombs on civilians in the Nuba Mountains" Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The residents of Kauda in the Nuba Mountains have called on the international community to pressurize the Sudanese government to stop dropping bombs on civilians. The Nuba Mountains are part of ...
• 10 November 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - In Masisi an interethnic conflict ignored by all, 4 women and 2 children the latest victims Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "In the region of Masisi (North Kivu), the population is suffering the consequences of interethnic conflict that is ignored by the international community, while it continues to focus its atten ...
• 9 November 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - "We need to avoid a civil war in Kivu": the missionaries aim at free and transparent elections Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "What must be avoided is a possible clash between two large blocks: on the one hand, the M23 and allied groups, on the other hand the national army reinforced by the integration of other armed ...
• 9 November 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Flooding: "We have nothing, but we will stay with the people in difficulty until the end," says a missionary Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We have no drinking water, 160 people have already died due to the rains. The waters flooded all the villages in the area, " writes Brother Damian Krzystof to Fides Agency, a Polish missionary, w ...