Africa

• 15 September 2011
  AFRICA/KENYA - Strong solidarity towards the victims of the fire in Nairobi Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds of Kenyans in Nairobi are queuing up to donate blood for the victims of the pipeline explosion and fire which killed a hundred people and injured 118 people in the slums of Sinai, in Na ...
• 15 September 2011
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Cholera continues to spread, to hold it back a campaign on the use of drinking water and lavatories would be sufficient Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - Health officials in Burundi are trying to contain an epidemic of cholera which, since August, has killed 12 people and has infected more than 600. Although the epidemic is under control, in so ...
• 14 September 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Institutional meetings for Mgr. Martinelli before returning to Libya Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "I had the pleasure to meet Mgr. Dominique Mamberti, Secretary for Relations with the States, together with the Apostolic Nuncio to Libya, His Exc. Mgr. Tommaso Caputo", says His Exc. Mgr. Giovanni ...
• 14 September 2011
  AFRICA/GHANA - The Church must make a significant contribution to the peaceful development of the 20 forthcoming African elections Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "We must ensure that by December 2011, the Catholic Church can claim to have made a significant contribution to peace in Africa through interventions that have ensured the peaceful and fair develo ...
• 14 September 2011
  AFRICA/KENYA - Most African countries have serious difficulties in the health care of pregnant women Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Studies carried out by the Institute for African Development Policies (AFIDEP) in East, West and Southern Africa, showed that most countries have great difficulties for universal access to repro ...
• 14 September 2011
  AFRICA/KENYA - High risk of mental health problems for refugee children Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - About 18 million children around the world have been forced to flee their homes because of conflict, one third of these are refugees whose families have crossed international borders. To explain ...
• 13 September 2011
  AFRICA/SWAZILAND-Denied access to public information for "security reasons" Mbabane (Agenzia Fides) - Many public officials in Swaziland do not believe that access to information is a right for everyone but a privilege that can be withdrawn at any time. If it is diffult for adult citizens to get ...
• 13 September 2011
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "We call on the security apparatus so that they tell us who fuels the Boko Haram violence": the Bishops’ request Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Nigeria criticize the federal government for not having made progress in the fight against the Boko Haram sect, whose violent actions are spreading from the north to other parts of ...
• 13 September 2011
  AFRICA/KENYA - At least 92 have been killed in a pipeline in a slum in Nairobi, the outdated system is under indictment Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - 92 people died and 117 wounded, of which 40 are very serious.This is the toll, still provisional, of the Kenya Pipeline Company explosion (KPC) which happened yesterday, September 12, in the slu ...
• 13 September 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Monsignor Martinelli: "I am eager and anxious to return to Libya" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "I am eager and anxious to return to Libya to continue my mission", says His Exc. Mgr. Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli after spending a period of convalescence in Italy, and is now preparing to retur ...
• 12 September 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - "The attack on the Israeli embassy is a clear act of breaking with the past", says a missionary from Cairo Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "It was a proof of strength, a gesture of breaking with the past. A 'sacred' place was violated, which under Mubarak’s regime would never have been attacked in that way", says Fr.Giovanni to Fid ...
• 12 September 2011
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - An "emergency forum" has been called on behalf of the Governors of northern Nigeria with regards to the violence in Plateau state Jos (Agenzia Fides) - New violence in Plateau state, in north-central Nigeria, where in the last two weeks, 70 people have been killed in inter-community clashes. The last attack was last weekend, when an armed group (su ...
• 10 September 2011
  AFRICA/KENYA - "Even the local communities suffer because of drought, and no one helps them": the testimony of a responsible of Caritas from Dadaab, the world's largest refugee camp Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is dramatic", says Suzanna Tkalec to Fides, of the Catholic Relief Services (CRS), which assists His Exc Mgr. Giorgio Bertin, Bishop of Djibouti and Apostolic Administrator of Mog ...
• 9 September 2011
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Only 58% of Zambia's population has adequate sanitation Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - The frequent flooding, poor drainage and lack of toilets in Kanyama, sprawling poor villages in Lusaka, force most residents to use plastic bags during the night rather than go to the toilet whic ...
• 9 September 2011
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - South Sudanese Bishops call for national reconciliation, concerned about the recent violence Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "The challenge for all of us now is nation-building, emphasising unity and integration", says the statement of the Episcopal Conference of the Republic of South Sudan, issued after the plenary sess ...