Africa

• 7 February 2012
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - The campaign has started: the opposition is divided and concerns about the stability of the Country Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "The election campaign began last Sunday in a minor tone and there were no major clashes" say Church sources to Fides from Dakar, Senegal's capital, where on February 5 the campaign for the presid ...
• 7 February 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "The government and the Islamic leadership are moving to stop Boko Haram" says the Archbishop of Abuja Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The solution is at hand, because the government is working to face the problem of Boko Haram" says to Fides Archbishop John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan, Archbishop of Abuja, Federal capital of Nigeria, ...
• 6 February 2012
  AFRICA - The African Union and the path of democracy in Africa Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - For the first time in its history, the African Union (AU) has failed to elect its President. At the 18th Summit of the Heads of State held in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia and seat of the ...
• 6 February 2012
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - In May, the first graduates of the Catholic University of Southern Sudan Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "The Catholic University of Southern Sudan is in its fourth year and has more than 500 students. May 12th is the date where the first students will graduate " informs Fr. Mike Schultheis, SJ. In Ju ...
• 3 February 2012
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Handmade objects made by women with AIDS allow the construction of a school Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - Today, Feb. 3, a new secondary school for 400 children, built with private funds collected primarily through the sale of necklaces made of recycled paper by women with AIDS will be inaugurated i ...
• 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 ...