AFRICA/LIBERIA - JESUIT REFUGEE SERVICE RESUMES ACTIVITY IN LIBERIA
Monrovia (Fides Service)- Civil war in Liberia forced humanitarian workers to suspend, temporary aid programmes for numerous displaced persons in this west African country. The Jesuit Refugee Service JRS says in a statem ...
AFRICA/BURUNDI - INFO: 10 YEARS OF WAR
Bujumbura (Fides Service) – More than 300,000 civilians killed in ten years of war in Burundi, which broke out on 21 October 1993, when a group of rebel militia assassinated Melchior Ndadaye, first president of Burundi ...
21 October 2003
AFRICA/BURUNDI - PEACE PROSPECTS AFTER TEN YEARS OF WAR
Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides)- “This is perhaps the most serious effort to restore peace in Burundi” a local Church source in Bujumbura, who remains unnamed for security reasons, told Fides Service, referring to peace ag ...