Africa
22 December 2011
AFRICA/CONGO DR - Clash on the Presidency: "The risk is that the Country inflames" the missionaries fear
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "What will happen now? The risk is the impediment, using the hard way, of tomorrow’s rally at the Stadium of the Martyrs, the risk is other deaths, which will be added to the dozens killed in ...
21 December 2011
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The tragedy of displaced people in the village of Doro continues
Doro (Agenzia Fides) - More than 20 thousand people have escaped from the bombs and violence in the northern Sudanese state of the Blue Nile to go to the refugee camp in the village of Doro, southern Sudan, in search of ...
21 December 2011
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The Bishop of Tombura-Yambio hopes for a peaceful Christmas, but on the new State the shadow of insurgency is a burden
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "We hope to spend Christmas in serenity and peace, but there is some fear throughout the population for the possibility of attacks by LRA rebels," said to Fides His Exc. Mgr. Edaward Hiiboro Kussal ...
21 December 2011
AFRICA/KENYA - A shelter for safe deliveries with the highest mortality rate across the country
Garissa (Agenzia Fides) - The Garissa Maternal Shelter in the northeast Province of Kenya is the only existing maternal and child care health centre in an area that records the highest mortality rates across the country. ...
21 December 2011
AFRICA/CONGO DR - President Kabila swears in for another term, but the controversy does not stop
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "In Kinshasa, the situation is calm, but we are all waiting for 23 December, when the opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi, will appoint himself Head of State" local Church sources told Fides f ...
20 December 2011
AFRICA/EGYPT - Demonstrators in Tahrir Square have lost popular support
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "Fighting continues. This morning we heard at least 500 rounds of firearms and the people say that there are snipers on the roofs of Tahrir Square" this is what Fides was told by a local source (f ...
20 December 2011
AFRICA/NIGERIA - New explosions in the north; for the Bishops, "either one learns to live in peace or one perishes in violence"
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – Still explosions in northern Nigeria attributed to the Boko Haram sect. On 18 December in Malikali, on the outskirts of Kaduna, capital of the State, at least one person died and several others ...
20 December 2011
AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Typhoid, dysentery, cholera and malnutrition are the causes of infrastructure insecurity
Harare (Agenzia Fides) - The diseases caused by contaminated water, such as typhoid, dysentery and diarrhea, are creating great concern in Zimbabwe. A possible revival of the cholera epidemic that in 2008 - 2009 killed m ...
19 December 2011
AFRICA/CONGO DR- December 23 crucial day for the DRC?
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Military presence in Kinshasa is massive. So far there have not been major clashes, but the tension is evident", said local Church sources to Fides contacted in the capital of the Democratic R ...
19 December 2011
AFRICA/EGYPT - "A part of the population justifies the attitude of the police in the name of the return to order" notes a missionary
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "A part of the area affected by the conflict, life proceeds normally in Cairo," says to Fides Fr. Luciano Verdoscia, a Comboni missionary who works in Cairo, where clashes between demonstrators an ...
17 December 2011
AFRICA/LIBYA - More than 125,000 irregular armed fighters, divided into hundreds of militias: the complaint of a report
Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - In Libya, there are 125,000 irregular armed fighters. According to a report by the International Crisis Group (ICG), which warns about the presence of hundreds of militias that control chunks o ...
16 December 2011
AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - The Diocese of Bafatá celebrates ten years: "the virtue of hope has always illuminated our diocesan path "
Bafatá (Agenzia Fides) – Mgr. Carlos Pedro Zilli, Bishop of Bafatá, issued a pastoral Letter addressed to the entire diocese that this year 2011 celebrates its tenth anniversary, having been founded by Blessed John P ...
16 December 2011
AFRICA/CONGO DR - "Publishing the minutes of the polling station to resolve disputes over the elections" a proposal from a missionary
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "There are data that vary from one source to another. There are seats that have not been accounted for. The only way out of this situation is to publish the minutes of the individual seats", sa ...
16 December 2011
AFRICA/HAITI - Christmas also for the poor in Haiti, victims of the earthquake
Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - At last, even the many poor, victims of the severe earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010, will celebrate Christmas through a program of government activity extended throughout the national ...
16 December 2011
AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE - Victory of the President’s coalition
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides ) - The coalition led by President Alassane Ouattara obtained 80% of the vote in the parliamentary elections in Côte d'Ivoire held on 11 December, according to official figures released today, Dec ...
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