Africa

• 14 May 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - More than 5,100 people driven out from their lands to exploit the gold in South Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The social fabric of the people who lived so far in peace and mutual solidarity is compromised: its members have become enemies to each other, just because a Canadian company in search of gold ...
• 14 May 2012
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - The Lusophone Countries do not accept the agreement between the coup leaders and the West African States Bissau (Agenzia Fides) – The situation in Guinea Bissau is still blocked where a new government to overcome the crisis caused by the military coup on April 12 seems difficult to form. ECOWAS (Economic Community of West ...
• 10 May 2012
  AFRICA/EGYPT - "The Church in Egypt is in a phase of discernment" says the National Director of the PMS Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church in Egypt is in a phase of discernment" says to Fides Fr. Nabil Fayez Antoun, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Egypt who is in Rome for the General Assembly ...
• 10 May 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - The emergence of a new rebel movement accentuates the instability in Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - In North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the situation is still precarious for the presence of hundreds of military deserters who have remained loyal to Bosco Ntaganda, former Chie ...
• 9 May 2012
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "The militias are vying for the funds left by Gaddafi" say local sources Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "It was not the militants of Yafran to attack the seat of government, but those of Zeltan" say to Fides qualified sources from Tripoli, in Libya, where yesterday, May 8, a militia group attacke ...
• 9 May 2012
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - The Church continues to invest in young people, hope for a better future Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - The Diocese of Bissau and Bafatá celebrated from May 4 to 6, their "Youth Day". The Auxiliary Bishop of Bissau, His Exc. Mgr. José Lampra Cá, found himself with the young people of his diocese ...
• 9 May 2012
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The Plenary of the Bishops of Sudan and Southern Sudan has been postponed without a date because of tensions between the two Countries Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Sudan and South Sudan (who are assembled in the Episcopal Conference, the Sudan Catholic Bishops' Conference-SCBC) have decided to postpone their annual Plenary Assembly because ...
• 8 May 2012
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Radio Okapi, a voice in the service of peace and human rights Bukavu (Agenzia Fides) - In the African continent radio is often used as a tool of war. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, Radio Okapi goes against the tide by putting itself at the service of peace. Created by the Uni ...
• 8 May 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "One does not want to thoroughly fight Boko Haram" says a Nigerian Bishop Jos (Agenzia Fides) - "Nigeria does not want for the time being the end of the Boko Haram threat. The members of the security services have proven to know who are those behind this threat, but are not able to catch them. ...
• 8 May 2012
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Situation blocked, while the international community studies sanctions against coup plotters Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation remains blocked both at a domestic political and international level," says to Fides father David Sciocco, PIME missionary and director of Radio Sol Mansi, from Bissau. The Economi ...
• 7 May 2012
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - No one should die any more when giving birth: new public health project to reduce maternal and infant mortality Wolisso (Agenzia Fides) - A new public health project to reduce maternal and infant mortality in 4 African countries has just been inaugurated in Wolisso, in Ethiopia. Funded by the Italian Cooperation, and launched in J ...
• 7 May 2012
  AFRICA/KENYA - Emergency Refugee in the Mission of Camp Garba: more than 3 thousand people need everything Camp Garba (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation in refugee camps is dramatic, government aid is rather insufficient, everyone is afraid to go to the area, the essential is lacking, especially water, increasing the risk of di ...
• 4 May 2012
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Young missionary killed during a robbery at the mission of Liqueleva Liqueleva (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Valentim Eduardo Camale, of the Consolata Missionaries (IMC), was brutally killed on May 3, 2012 during a robbery at the mission of Liqueleva (Mozambique), which occurred at 8 pm. Accordin ...
• 3 May 2012
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - In three months 241,000 other displaced from North Kivu: the complaint of a missionary Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "In the first quarter of 2012, in North Kivu alone, displaced people increased by 241,000 units" this is the complaint made to Fides by Fr. Loris Cattani, a Xaverian missionary animator of "Pea ...
• 3 May 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - More than 30 people died in the attack at a livestock market in the north-east of Nigeria Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - At least 34 people died caused by a bomb in a cattle market which took place yesterday afternoon, May 2, in Potiskum, in the north-east of Nigeria. According to agency sources, the toll of the att ...