Africa

• 7 November 2003
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - THOUSANDS TAKE TO THE STREETS CALLING FOR AN END TO POLITICAL VIOLENCE: “WE ARE ALL SENEGALESE, ALL BROTHERS AND SISTERS, WECANNOT KILL ONE ANOTHER ” Dakar (Fides Service)- “Yesterday’s protest took place peacefully and it was a demonstration of the Senegalese spirit of democracy ” a missionary in Dakar, Senegal tells Fides. Thousands gathered yesterday, 6 Novem ...
• 7 November 2003
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - DISASTROUS HEALTH CONDITIONS INFANT MORTALITY RATE 100/1000 (100 OUT OF EVERY 1000 DIE IN THE FIRST YEAR OF LIFE) Rome (Fides Service) – Disastrous sanitary conditions in Madagascar were aggravated during the years of war particularly with regard to children and health care. Seeing this situation the Lazzarist Fathers built a Vill ...
• 6 November 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA - PEACE IN UGANDA AND PEACE IN SUDAN ARE CONNECTED” SAYS ARCHBISHOP ODAMA OF GULU. REPORTED DEATH OF CATHOLIC PRIEST IN NORTHERN UGANDA DENIED Kampala (Fides Service)- “The path to peace in Sudan and the path to peace in Uganda are connected: national reconciliation in our great neighbour will certainly lead to positive developments here in Uganda” Archbish ...
• 6 November 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - MIRACLE OF LEPERS WHO ESCAPED WAR. LEPROSY SCARES WARLORDS BUT NOT CONSOLATA MISSIONARIES Monrovia (Fides Service)- “Leaders of the two rebel movements LURD and MODEL are now negotiating with heads of the international peacekeeping force to put an end to fighting in northern Liberia” a local Consolata Mis ...
• 6 November 2003
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “THE CHURCH IS THE BEST CHANNEL FOR DIALOGUE WITH THE PEOPLE OF SOUTHERN SUDAN” SAYS HASSAN AL TURABI THE COUNTRY’S CHIEF MUSLIM LEADER Khartoum (Fides Service )- The Church is the best channel for dialogue with the people in the south. This was affirmed by main Muslim leader in Sudan Sheikh Hassan Al Turabi during an interview with Al Jazeera Arab TV af ...
• 5 November 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA - FOR GUERRILLA LEADERS THE WAR OF ATROCITIES IS NOW A WAY OF LIFE Kampala (Fides Service)- “A military option is not a solution for the war in northern Uganda. The governments of the United States and European Union members must pressure Uganda and Sudan to find a negotiated solution ...
• 3 November 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA - 120 CHILD SOLDIERS RESCUED IN NORTHERN UGANDA. SECOND IN COMMAND LRA LEADER KILLED. HAS THE CONFLICT REACHED A TURNING POINT ? Kampala (Fides Service) - Is the Ugandan war at a turning point, international observers are wondering after the recent massive government offensive against Lord’s Resistance Army LRA rebels. During the action governme ...
• 3 November 2003
  AFRICA/SUDAN - GOVERNMENT AIRFORCE HITS TARGETS IN THE WEST BUT TALKS WITH MAIN REBEL GROUPS CONTINUE Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - While talks to restore peace in Sudan continue, the government airforce has admitted bombings in the western part of the country. However a military spokesman affirmed that targets bombed by Kh ...
• 3 November 2003
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - MILITARY PARADE ENDS IN TRAGEDY: 200 INJURED INCLUDING 13 SUFFERING FROM SEVERE BURNS Ouagadougou (Fides Service)- “It was a tragedy and we express our deepest sympathy while ensuring our prayers for the injured and the families”, a local Church source in Burkina Faso tells Fides after the fire which ...
• 31 October 2003
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN WARN TAYLOR TO STOP EFFORTS TO DESTABILISE SIERRA LEONE Freetown (Fides Service )- The United States and Great Britain have issued a severe warning to former Liberian President Charles Taylor. The two countries say they will take Taylor before a Special Court in Freetown to ...
• 31 October 2003
  AFRICA/CHAD - BISHOPS OF CENTRAL AFRICA: “THE OIL IN OUR COUNTRIES MUST BE USED FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR PEOPLE ” N’Djamena (Fides Service)- Catholic Bishops in Central Africa say that oil revenue must go to the people of Africa. The Justice and Peace Commission of ACERAC Association of Catholic Bishops’ Conferences has organise ...
• 30 October 2003
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - AFRICAN WOMEN UNITED IN THE STRUGGLE WITH AIDS. SISTER 2 SISTER MEETS FOR SECOND TIME IN SOUTH AFRICA Cape Town (Fides Service)- “This is not the usual Conference on AIDS, it is more of a coming together of people, most of them women, who battle every day against this illness, often with very restricted means” Father ...
• 30 October 2003
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - MISSIONARIES SAY: WE SEE HATRED GROWING IN PEOPLE’S HEARTS. HOW DIFFICULT IT IS TO BUILD A CULTURE OF PEACE! Abidjan (Fides Service)- “Hatred continues to grow in hearts, while political leaders carry on with their discussions” say Missionaries in Ivory Coast still divided in army and rebel controlled zones since the outbre ...
• 30 October 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA - LORD's RESISTANCE ARMY REBELS KILL 13 CIVILIANS AND KIDNAP OTHERS Kampala (Fides Service ) - 13 civilians were beaten to death and many others abducted in a raid in northern Uganda by rebels of the LRA Lord’s Resistance Army yesterday 29 October in the Lira district. (Fides Service 3 ...
• 29 October 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - “RENEW LIBERIA’S POLITICAL CULTURE TO END CIVIL WAR ONCE AND FOR ALL” Monrovia (Fides Service)- “This is the usual ballet about appointments which weighs on the shoulders of the poor people” Father Mauro Armanino SMA Provincial tells Fides commenting the compromise reached between LURD ...