Africa

• 3 February 2012
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Within the Tahrir Square protests violent groups have infiltrated Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "After the Friday prayers we will see if there are other clashes. The feeling is that unfortunately there will be new clashes" say to Fides local sources from Cairo, where yesterday there were cla ...
• 3 February 2012
  AFRICA - Mid-February in Rome, the second Symposium of the Bishops of Africa and Europe Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Evangelization today: communion and pastoral cooperation between Africa and Europe. Man and God: the Church's mission to proclaim the presence and love of God". This is the theme of the Second Sym ...
• 2 February 2012
  AFRICA/SENEGAL-Does the future of Senegal depend on outgoing President's party? Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - The protests in Senegal continue after the Constitutional Council published a list of 14 candidates to the presidential elections, including President Abdoulaye Wade, but has excluded the internat ...
• 2 February 2012
  AFRICA/EGYPT-Controversy after clashes in Port Said, which caused at least 74 deaths and 1000 injuries Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "The Egyptian press wonders why the Governor of Port Said and the security chief of the city were not present at the stadium, as is their habit", says to Fides Fr. Luciano Verdoscia, a Combonian m ...
• 1 February 2012
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - After 15 years of legal abortion there are a million unborn children, denounces the Church Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "Fifteen years have passed since abortion on demand was legalized in South Africa. Since then, it is estimated that over one million unborn children were denied the most fundamental of righ ...
• 1 February 2012
  AFRICA/CHAD - Weapons and non-development: the law has not been applied that required to use the oil money for civilian purposes N'Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - In 2010, Chad spent 154 billion CFA francs (234 million euros) on arms, still a very high figure although lower than in 2008 (275.7 billion CFA francs, 420 million), the year in which the regi ...
• 31 January 2012
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - The newly formed Regional Episcopal Conference of West Africa (RECOWA-CERAO) Yamoussoukro (Agenzia Fides) – The Regional Episcopal Conference of West Africa has formally been established (RECOWA-CERAO, two acronyms respectively in English and French), which includes the Episcopal Conferences of ...
• 31 January 2012
  AFRICA - One million children risk dying of hunger in the Sahel region Timbuktu (Agenzia Fides) - The international organization Action contre la Faim (ACF) has launched an alarm about the danger more than 10 million people run, and especially one million children, who are running out of fo ...
• 31 January 2012
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The two priests kidnapped on January 15 have been freed without ransom Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The two priests kidnapped in Sudan on 15 January are free. This is confirmed to Fides by sources of the Archbishopric of Khartoum: "The two priests were released yesterday, January 30, around 4 ...
• 31 January 2012
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - After the tropical storms, the situation continues to worsen Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - More than 100 000 people have been affected by the tropical storms Funso and Dando, that have hit respectively the north and south of Mozambique, according to wusnyo, communicated by the Office f ...
• 30 January 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA-A haven for African children accused of witchcraft Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Nigerian NGO Child's Right and Rehabilitation Network (CRARN), welcomed over 160 children labeled as "witches". Dozens of children suffer abuses, are abandoned and even killed by their familie ...
• 30 January 2012
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - "Good relations with the government, but more attention to the weakest," write the Bishops Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Zambia are opposed to forced repatriation of Rwandese refugees who live in the Country and condemn cases of abuse against children. This is shown by a articulated pastoral Letter, ...
• 30 January 2012
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - The cost of food increases, 250 000 people continue to suffer from hunger Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - After a pause of several months, clashes and feuds have broken out again in Somalia between clans and between 16 and 19 January, eight people died. In the country as well as the lack of securi ...
• 30 January 2012
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Between kidnappings and massacres tension between Sudan and Southern Sudan increases Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - There is a growing tension in the border areas between Sudan and South Sudan, while the governments in Khartoum and Juba are throwing accusations of supporting the rebels operating in their ter ...
• 27 January 2012
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Horn of Africa: every day between 100 and 200 children under 5 years of age die Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - Because of the famine caused by the severe drought that has hit the area in the past 50 years, between 100 and 200 children under 5 years of age continue to die every day in the Horn of Afri ...