Africa

• 3 December 2011
  AFRICA/MALAWI - New projects for Missionary Childhood for children with AIDS Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of orphans entrusted to grandparents after their parents die of AIDS, an entire generation at risk, illiteracy and lack of education: This unfortunately is the reality for many childr ...
• 3 December 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - The historic opposition Tshisekedi and outgoing President Kabila in the lead in the first count of the elections held on 28 November Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The outgoing President, Joseph Kabila, and the historic opponent, Etienne Tshisekedi, are in the lead in the partial count of the votes of the November 28 presidential elections in the Democrat ...
• 3 December 2011
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Bishops call for an agreement to avoid the strike on behalf of doctors scheduled on December 5 Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Kenya have urged the government to enter into fruitful dialogue with doctors who avert a pending strike on December 5 to demand a 300% pay hike. In a statement, issued on 1 Decemb ...
• 2 December 2011
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - City of Hope, a school for young people of Makeni Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - Makeni is one of the suburbs in the south of Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. Here, in 1995, the Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco built a temporary Open Community School for girls, with the hope that ...
• 2 December 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - "Women religious attacked on the basis of charges all to be verified": the Archbishop of Kananga denounces the climate of electoral tension Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A number of women religious have been attacked in the Archdiocese of Kananga in relation to the tense atmosphere in which presidential elections were held (see Fides 30/11/2011). This was denou ...
• 2 December 2011
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - The number of returnees from Yemen increases Hargeisa (Agenzia Fides) - The continuing unrest and xenophobia present in Yemen have increased the returns of refugees in Somalia. There are about 6000 of those who have returned back, crossing the Red Sea since the beg ...
• 2 December 2011
  AFRICA/BENIN - "The Post-Synodal Exhortation urges us to a greater commitment to evangelization in Africa", says Cardinal Pengo Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM), Cardinal Polycarp Pengo, Archbishop of Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania), has described the Apostolic Exhortation ...
• 1 December 2011
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE-Education and evangelization of children and young people Lungi (Agenzia Fides) - The Salesian community has been present in Sierra Leone for 25 years, and has always been committed to education and evangelization of children and young people in the African country. According t ...
• 1 December 2011
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Caritas operations in Somalia were not affected by the ban of the Shabab against foreign NGOs Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - "At the moment, no Caritas operation has been affected by the decision of the Shabab to close the activities of humanitarian organizations in different areas of Somalia controlled by them" ref ...
• 1 December 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - "In the long term disenchantment will prevail towards the political proposal of the Islamists," says a missionary from Cairo Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "This is the first data and not the final official data, but expresses a real tendency," says to Fides Fr. Luciano Verdoscia, a Comboni missionary who lives and works in Cairo, commenting on the f ...
• 1 December 2011
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - More than a million people need food aid Harare (Agenzia Fides) - Due to very scarse harvest, more than a million people in the Midlands Provinces are forced to survive eating fruit as a main meal in the evening, and are not able to pay school fees for their ch ...
• 30 November 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - "The elections were held, but in an almost generalized disorder," says a missionary Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The elections were held, but in an almost generalized disorder," says to Fides Fr. Loris Cattani, a Xaverian missionary, an attentive observer of the situation in the Democratic Republic of Co ...
• 30 November 2011
  AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE - Gbagbo handed over to the International Criminal Court: worrying statements in the newspapers close to him Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "In Abidjan so far there have not been demonstrations in favor of Gbagbo and the situation is calm, but the opposition newspapers, close to the deposed President, have strongly criticized the go ...
• 29 November 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Tense calm after the elections, waiting for the results Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is calm, but there is also tension awaiting the election results", said local Church sources to Fides from Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where ...
• 29 November 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - "Calm elections, but in some polling stations voting was carried out on ballots which were not stamped" local sources say Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "The elections are taking place in a serene atmosphere, with a high turnout", said local Church sources to Fides from Cairo, capital of Egypt, where the first round of voting to elect the lower ho ...