Africa

• 29 December 2011
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The deep roots of the Boko Haram sect Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Boko Haram sect, author of numerous attacks that have recently caused deaths and injuries in Nigeria, has its origins in the colonial and post-colonial history of the North African nation. "B ...
• 28 December 2011
  AFRICA/MALAWI - A Christmas in poverty, the only hope for the population is the lottery Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "The corn just sprouted up waited the dew of the night in vain to survive a few more days. Then everything dried up. Some more robust seedlings of cotton survive here and there, the rest has be ...
• 28 December 2011
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Terrorism threatens us all, Muslims and Christians, but together we can overcome it" says to Fides the Archbishop of Abuja Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "I hope that these people have not died in vain, the Nigerians are realizing that terrorism threatens us all, Christians and Muslims," says to Fides His Exc. Mgr. John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan, Archbi ...
• 23 December 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - "I will spend Christmas with the boys and girls in the neighborhood of garbage collectors", says Fr Verdoscia Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "I am in the store, with my staff, to choose the clothes to be distributed to children on Christmas Day" says to Fides Fr. Luciano Verdoscia, a Comboni missionary who has been working for years in ...
• 23 December 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - High tension in Kinshasa, the police have banned Tshisekedi’s oath Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – High tension in Kinshasa, capital of Democratic Republic of Congo, where police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse demonstrators gathered in front of Etienne Tshisekedi’s house and ...
• 22 December 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "For Christmas we ask for the gift of reconciliation," said Mgr. Martinelli Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "Tomorrow I will visit Misratha to meet the local community of Filipino Catholics" says to Fides His Exc. Mgr. Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli, in Libya, who testifies ...
• 22 December 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR-Immunization campaign against measles for 1.7 million children Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The increase of measles and polio cases triggered a vaccination health campaign aimed at tens of thousands of children infected in the regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In 2011 ...
• 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 ...