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27 November 2003
AFRICA/IVORY COAST – EXPECTANCY TO SEE IF REBEL MINISTERS ATTEND NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT MEETING IMPORTANT TALKS BETWEEN PRESIDENTS OF BURKINA FASO AND IVORY COAST
Abidjan (Fides Service) -“This was a key meeting for ending the crisis in Ivory Coast ” a local Church observer in Abidjan told Fides with regard to talks yesterday 26 November in Ouagadougou between President Blais ...
27 November 2003
AFRICA - AIDS: AFRICA’S ORPHANED GENERATIONS: UNICEF REPORT SAYS NUMBER OF CHILDREN WITHOUT PARENTS IS NOW 11 MILLION HAD DOUBLED IN A DECADE.
Rome (Fides Service) – The struggle against HIV/AIDS is one of five priorities for UNICEF which has sounded the alarm with its report “ Africa’s Orphaned Generations”, just released in various countries. AIDS has ...
27 November 2003
AFRICA/BURUNDI – ELIMINATE AIDS AND MALNUTRITION ARE MAIN OBJECTIVES FOR CARITAS BURUNDI IN A COUNTRY IMPOVERISHED BY TEN YEARS OF WAR
Bujumbura (Fides Service )- AIDS and malnutrition are two priorities to tackle for 2004 by Caritas Burundi known here as Centre d’Entraide et de Développement CED one of the main humanitarian organisations of the Cath ...
25 November 2003
AFRICA/LIBERIA - ARE MUSLIM FUNDAMENTALIST SCHOOLS EXPORTING TERRORISM TO LIBERIA? GROWING CONCERN IN MONROVIA
Monrovia (Fides Service) – Is there a threat of Muslim fundamentalism in Liberia? Local sources told Fides that in recent years of civil war between president Taylor and the rebel groups LURD (Liberians United per la R ...
24 November 2003
AFRICA/ZIMBABWE – CHURCH ORGANISATIONS PROTEST ARREST OF 100 TRADE UNION LEADERS
Harare (Fides Service)- Ever more concerning the situation in Zimbabwe since a serious political - social and economic crisis exploded at the beginning of 2000 when Robert Mugabe launched an accelerated agricultural re ...
24 November 2003
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS TO SOLVE CRISIS CONTINUE. PRESIDENT GBAGBO IN GABON, MALI AND BURKINA FASO
Abidjan (Fides Service)- “The fact that President Laurent Gbagbo and French Foreign minister Laurent de Villepin, met is positive in itself ” a local Church sources told Fides with regard to a meeting of the Presiden ...
24 November 2003
AFRICA/BURUNDI - BURUNDI OPTS FOR PEACE: REBELS RECEIVE GOVERNMENT POSTS, GROWING HOPES FOR END OF WAR DESPITE CONTINUING SPORADIC VIOLENCE
Bujumbura (Fides Service)- “I think that after years of disappointment and false starts this time Burundi has taken the path for peace” a priest in Bururi in Burundi told Fides after the government signed a peace agr ...
21 November 2003
AFRICA/EGYPT - CHRISTIANS IN EGYPT, A COUNTRY OF TOLERANCE, ARE A BRIDGE BETWEEN TWO FAITHS AND TWO CULTURES
Alexandria of Egypt (Fides Service)- “This cannot be labelled as religious Muslim terrorism since its victims are also Muslims” Bishop Giuseppe Bausardo, Apostolic Vicar of Alexandria of Egypt told Fides with regard ...
21 November 2003
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA-ERITREA - AT THE MOMENT THERE ARE NO SIGNS OF A RETURN TO WAR BETWEEN ETHIOPIA AND ERITREA AFTER ASMARA WITHDREW ITS AMBASSADOR TO THE AFRICAN UNION
Addis Ababa (Fides Service)- “This development is serious although there are no signs of a return of military tension between Ethiopia and Eritrea or, still worse, of war” local Church sources in Addis Ababa told Fid ...
21 November 2003
AFRICA/REPUBLIC OF CONGO - EBOLA STRIKES AGAIN: QUARANTINE FOR MBOMBO DISTRICT
Brazzaville (Fides) – Ebola disease strikes periodically in tropical forests taking a few dozen lives and then disappearing again. Unfortunately the health minister of the Republic of Congo, Alain Moka, has confirmed t ...
20 November 2003
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - “THE STATE OF INSECURITY IS SUCH THAT WE MAY HAVE TO CELEBRATE MIDNIGHT MASS AT FOUR PM ON CHRISTMAS EVE SAYS MISSIONARY IN NORTH IVORY COAST”
Abidjan (Fides Service)- “For the moment, the emergency is over and all is calm” a missionary in Bouake told Fides Service. Bouake is the main town in the northern region Ivory Coast in the hands of the New Forces re ...
19 November 2003
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - “MISUNDERSTANDING OF DEFENCE MINISTER’S SPEECH CAUSE OF RISING TENSION IN IVORY COAST” SAYS MISSIONARY
Abidjan (Fides Service) – Tension is rising in Ivory Coast where New Forces rebels have declared a state of emergency fearing an attack by the regular army. “This tension probably rises from a misinterpretation of wh ...
18 November 2003
AFRICA/BURUNDI - “AGREEMENT OF HISTORIC IMPORTANCE. NOW PEACE MUST BE MADE WITH THE OTHER REBEL GROUP” BISHOP OF BUJUMBURA COMMENTS GOVERNMENT/FDD PEACE PACT
Bujumbura (Fides Service)- “This is a history making agreement for Burundi” Bishop Evariste Ngoyagoye of Bujumbura told Fides with regard to peace prospects after the government and the rebel group FDD (Forces for De ...
17 November 2003
AFRICA/UGANDA - GOVERNMENT CONSIDERS OFFERING SAFE HAVEN TO GUERRILLA LEADERS TO STOP WAR IN NORTHERN UGANDA, BEFORE IT SPREADS TO INVOLVE MORE TRIBES
Kampala (Fides Service)- “At the moment it is difficult to say whether there are concrete facts behind the news ” local observers in Kampala told Fides with regard to reports of a possible agreement between the Ugand ...
17 November 2003
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - DEVELOPMENT, ASSISTANCE TO RETURNING REFUGEES, COMMUNICATIONS AND CULTURE TO PROMOTE EVANGELISATION IN MOZAMBIQUE
Maputo (Fides Service)- “The fact that three of the newly created Cardinals are Africans from Ghana, Nigeria e Sudan demonstrates that the Christian faith has taken deep root in Africa and this is an encouragement to c ...
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