Africa

• 1 August 2023
  AFRICA/NIGER - A foretold coup? Amidst a stifled political system and the ambitions of the military, an initial analysis of the putsch Niamey (Fides News Agency). It is still too early to make an in-depth analysis of the military coup in Niger, but some considerations can be made with the help of Rahmane Idrissa, a Nigerien researcher with the Universit ...
• 31 July 2023
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Voting held to modify the constitution to allow the President to run for third term Bangui (Fides News Agency) - Voting was held yesterday, Sunday July 30th, in the Central African Republic for the constitutional referendum to allow the president, Faustin Archange Touadéra, to run for a third term. Ac ...
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  31 July 2023
  AFRICA/ CÔTE D'IVOIRE - Youths from ten of the country's dioceses ready for WYD Yopougon (Fides News Agency) - Father Régis Akpess is the diocesan director of The Pontifical Mission Societies in Yopougon, one of the ten dioceses in Côte d'Ivoire taking part in World Youth Day in Lisbon. "When my b ...
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  29 July 2023
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Proclaiming Jesus in the midst of the new miseries of the world, on the Antsirabe plateau Ambanja (Agenzia Fides) - Sister Germana Boschetti is one of the five pioneers of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians in Madagascar. "We arrived in Ambanja on October 15, 1985, at the beginning we studied the Malaga ...
• 28 July 2023
  AFRICA/NIGER - Coup: Situation in Niamey still uncertain Niamey (Fides News Agency) - The situation is still uncertain in Niamey, Niger's capital city, where a military coup is taking place (see Fides 27/7/2023). President Mohamed Bazoum is still being held in his residence, s ...
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  28 July 2023
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - So much suffering, but also deep humanity due to the dramatic situation of the population of Las Anod Las Anod (Agenzia Fides) - The situation in Las Anod, in the Somali region of Sool, is always more dramatic. Efforts to reach a ceasefire have failed. The local authorities of the Dhulbahante clan demand the withdrawal o ...
• 27 July 2023
  AFRICA/NIGER - A missionary to Fides: Coup d'état - "In Niamey the situation is calm at the moment" Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "Following the announcement of the "coup" during the night, everything is calm in the streets. Some wounded have been transferred to the national hospital, probably as a result of the shots fired ...
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  27 July 2023
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - There is a lack of financial resources to welcome the many candidates for priestly life Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - On August 15, the Catholic Church in Burundi will celebrate the final events of the Jubilee for 125 years of Evangelization, which began on October 1, 2022 (see Fides, 17/3/2023). Despite th ...
• 26 July 2023
  AFRICA/MALAWI - "You choose the future": 50 years of the Association of Catholic Women in Malawi Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "You have to choose the Malawi you want. Currently, things are not okay and we cannot continue with the way things are. You have that responsibility and power to choose the future", exhorted Ms ...
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  26 July 2023
  AFRICA/UGANDA - The family is the main formation center for young people: Bishop Wanok urges unity in the fight against corruption Lira (Agenzia Fides) - The bishop of the diocese of Lira, Sanctus Lino Wanok said "corruption in the current world is becoming a setback to human progress and is destroying the society and its values". The bishop implore ...
• 25 July 2023
  AFRICA/SUDAN - 100 days of fighting in Sudan and no peace in sight Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - As the Sudanese conflict enters its 100th day, one of the two parties involved, the regular army (Sudanese Armed Forces - SAF) rejects the mediation initiated by IGAD (Intergovernmental Authori ...
• 24 July 2023
  AFRICA/KENYA - Erection of the Diocese of Wote and appointment of first Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father erected the Diocese of Wote (Kenya) with dismembered territories of the Diocese of Machakos, making it a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Nairobi. The Holy Fathe ...
• 24 July 2023
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Resignation and appointment of Metropolitan Archbishop of Toliara Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 22, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Toliara (Madagascar) presented by His Exc. Msgr. Fulgence Rabeony, S.I. The Ho ...
• 24 July 2023
  AFRICA/KENYA - New protests announced while Bishops call for the repeal of the finance law Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - New protests announced by the opposition in Kenya against the high cost of living and the government's economic policy, after those of recent days violently repressed in blood (see Fides, 20/7/2 ...
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  21 July 2023
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Bishop Rugambwa expresses his closeness to the Arusha community after the assassination of priest Pamphili Nada Arusha (Agenzia Fides) - "The priest died while being taken to hospital, and the suspect was killed by angry citizens who were waiting for him outside the scene of the incident". This is what the police commander in the ...