Africa

• 12 July 2010
  AFRICA/NIGER - Child malnutrition rate increases 42% Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Nearly 17 percent of Niger's children younger than five suffer acute malnutrition, a 42 percent increase over the same period last year, according to a national survey released by the government. ...
• 10 July 2010
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - As population grows, Church faces more challenges Bissau (Agenzia Fides) – The final results of General Census of Population and Housing of Guinea Bissau, submitted July 9, opens a new page for a new distribution of religious assistance to Catholic communities in the ...
• 8 July 2010
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Episcopal ordination of Bishop Raymond Ahoua, FDP for Grand Bassam Grand Bassam (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday, July 4, the Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Ambrose Madtha ordained the new Bishop of the Diocese of Grand Bassam, Bishop Raymond Ahoua, of the Congregation of the Sons of Providen ...
• 8 July 2010
  AFRICA/KENYA - Child malnutrition rate lowered in refugee camps in Kakuma Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – Aid workers in a camp for some 80,000 refugees in northwest Kenya have in six months slashed acute child malnutrition rates by doubling the provision of nutritional supplements, scaling up fee ...
• 7 July 2010
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - July 8: Xaverian Missionaries celebrate 60 years in Sierra Leone Freetown (Agenzia Fides) – July 8 will mark the 60th anniversary of the arrival of the Xaverian Missionaries in Sierra Leone. Four men - left the port of Liverpool aboard the “Apapa” on June 29, 1950 – and reache ...
• 7 July 2010
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Greater commitment to fighting diabetes, which could cause 24 million deaths in sub-Sahara African by 2030 Yaounde (Agenzia Fides) – A recent study - “Diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa” - led by the University of Yaoundé and published in British medical journal The Lancet, said inadequate national prevention programmes an ...
• 6 July 2010
  AFRICA/EGYPT - 2.7 million children aged 6-14 working Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – Ahmed Ramadan, aged 13, works 11 hours a day in a bakery in Cairo’s Kherbet Kheirala slum, where he says he works with hazardous machinery in unpleasantly hot surroundings, and is ill-treated ...
• 6 July 2010
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - “We were politically persecuted in our homes,” say refugees from autonomous region of Somaliland in protesting Government declaration Hargesia (Agenzia Fides) - The announcement by the government of Somalia's self-declared republic of Somaliland that there were no refugees in the region - only economic migrants from neighboring countries - has angered ...
• 5 July 2010
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - “Champions for South Africa - Join the game”: education for a world view and integration during World Cup Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of the World Cup, the Salesian South African Planning and Development Office and Salesian NGOs “Jugend Eine Welt” (Austria), “Jovenes y Desarrollo” (Spain), “Sal ...
• 3 July 2010
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - 300 feared dead following tanker explosion in Congolese village Bukavu (Agenzia Fides) – "It is a tragedy whose precise dimensions are not yet known. According to the local radio, the number of dead could be 300," Fides was told by Sister Teresina Caffi, a Xaverian missionary from ...
• 3 July 2010
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Priest describes tank explosion as “an apocalyptic scene” Bukavu (Agenzia Fides) – "It's an apocalyptic scene; burned bodies are strewn about the main street of Sange. The dead are definitely more than 200 and dozens of houses have been destroyed," Fides has been told by Fr. ...
• 3 July 2010
  AFRICA/SAO TOME - The fight against poverty: Bishops of Portuguese-speaking countries meet in Sao Tome Sao Tome (Agenzia Fides) – Representatives from the Bishops' Conferences of Portuguese-speaking countries are meeting in São Tomé, July 2 to 9, to discuss the theme: “The Church and The Fight Against Poverty – Sh ...
• 3 July 2010
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Former opposition leader Ahmed Mohamud Silaanyo elected new President of Somaliland Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) – A state not recognized by the international community, where democracy seems more solid than other African states that are part of the UN and African Union... This is the paradox of Somalila ...
• 2 July 2010
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - First African Common Market opened Arusha (Agenzia Fides) – The East African Community (EAC) Common Market was officially opened on July 1, 2010. Its members are: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi. Under the terms of an agreement reached in ...
• 2 July 2010
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Divisions within the Rwandan military: an analysis Kigali (Agenzia Fides) – "The recent arrest of General Jean Bosco Kazura and the attack on Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa in South Africa (where he fled because he was wanted by the authorities of his country) show the division ...