AFRICA/EQUATORIAL GUINEA - Human rights at risk in view of the elections
Malabo (Agenzia Fides) - The campaign for the administrative and municipal elections have just begun and will be held in the country on 26 May. The population of Equatorial Guinea still has no fundamental freedoms as wel ...
15 May 2013
ASIA/MYANMAR - Serious human rights abuses and religious freedom
Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - In spite of the positive signs of change and openness, "there continues to be serious abuses of human rights and religious freedom" in Myanmar: So says a new report prepared by the NGO Christian ...
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Maronite Patriarch Rai: "Venezuela is in good hands"
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "We are convinced that Venezuela is in good hands." This is how the Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites Bechara Boutros Rai expressed himself after the meeting which took place yesterday, Tues ...
AFRICA/SUDAN - Chadian troops entered in Darfur, accusing a rebel movement
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), one of the main rebel groups in Darfur (western Sudan) has accused Chad of having sent troops across the border and warned Chadian President Idriss Deby ...
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - New tensions in the South African platinum mines
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "Tension is still very high. We are concerned," says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Kevin Dowling, Bishop of Rustenburg, near Marikana where the miners of platinum mines are in turmoil after ...