Africa

• 5 February 2025
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Local health authorities forced to suspend HIV & AIDS program in Yambio: thousands of lives at risk Yambio (Agenzia Fides) – The suspension of the HIV & AIDS program in Yambio has placed thousands of lives at risk. Healthcare workers, patients, and local authorities are now calling for urgent intervention to restore ...
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  5 February 2025
  AFRICA/GHANA - A debate in Parliament revives the question of the incompatibility between the Catholic faith and membership in Freemasonry Accra (Agenzia Fides) – Since the end of January, various statements have been made by bodies of the Catholic Church in Ghana, aimed at reaffirming the incompatibility between the Catholic faith and membership in Freem ...
• 4 February 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bishop of Goma: "The ceasefire is holding, but people are afraid. Hospitals and refugees are the most worrying situations" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The city is calm, but people are still afraid to leave their homes because security is not fully guaranteed," reports Willy Ngumbi Ngengele, Bishop of Goma, speaking to Fides from the capital ...
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  3 February 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - “In Bukavu, young people are joining self-defense militias” Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation in Bukavu is calm at the moment, but young people are flocking en masse to the recruitment centers of the self-defense groups of the so-called 'Wazalendo' militias," report Fides ...
• 3 February 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Poverty, food insecurity, inadequate health care and high cost of living Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - In addition to the serious waves of violence that are affecting the Nigerian population, including kidnappings, clashes, terrorist attacks and brutal murders, there is poverty, food insecurity, in ...
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  31 January 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Without electricity and water: Catholic parish in Goma welcomes 2000 displaced people Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The greatest danger for the population of Goma is the so-called 'Wazalendo' militiamen," local church observers told Fides about the situation in the capital of the Congolese province of North ...
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  30 January 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - “Foreigners leave Bukavu: fears of advance of the M23 rebel movement on the capital of South Kivu province” Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - “In Bukavu, foreigners are fleeing,” missionaries from the capital of the Congolese province of South Kivu tell Fides. “The various embassies in Kinshasa have ordered their compatriots to ...
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  29 January 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "Did the flight of the military leadership facilitate the capture of Goma?" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "In Goma there are 2 million people in need," local Church sources, who asked not to be named for security reasons, told Fides. "At least a million of them are displaced from other areas of Nor ...
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  28 January 2025
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "Simplicity and poverty": the words that extend Christmas to the rest of the year in Monasao Monasao (Agenzia Fides) - In Central Africa, the month of December was marked by a series of important celebrations, such as Republic Day (December 1st) and, for the Christian community, Christmas and New Year celebratio ...
• 28 January 2025
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Resignation and appointment of the Bishop of Iringa Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Iringa, Tanzania, presented by Bishop Tarcisius Ngalalekumtwa. The Holy Father has appointed the Reve ...
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  28 January 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bishop of Goma: "The neonatal ward at the Charité Maternelle General Hospital is affected by fighting" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Fighting continues in Goma, the capital of North Kivu, which the M23 rebels took over between Sunday 26 and Monday 27 January (see Fides, 27/1/2025). The M23 forces are encountering resistance ...
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  27 January 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - M23 enters Goma Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – “It was a terrible night,” local sources told Fides from Goma, the capital of North Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which was conquered today, January 27, by the re ...
• 25 January 2025
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Nouna, Burkina Faso Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Nouna, Burkina Faso, presented by Bishop Joseph Sama. The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Guy M ...
• 25 January 2025
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Laghouat Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis has accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Laghouat (Algeria) presented by His Exc. Msgr. John Gordon MacWilliam, M. Afr. At the same time the ...
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  24 January 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Escalation of violence in North Kivu: M23 rebels advance towards Goma Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The North Kivu region, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is facing a serious escalation of violence, with intense fighting between the Congolese armed forces (FARDC) and th ...