Africa

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  23 December 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Between M23 “ghost” militiamen and private vendettas, Uvira lives in uncertainty Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – A city suspended in limbo. This is the situation in Uvira, a city in South Kivu, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on the border with Burundi, which was captured on December 10 by M23/ ...
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  22 December 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The last 130 children from the Catholic school in Papiri have been freed Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – The 130 students who had been held hostage in the attack on St. Mary's Catholic School in Papiri (Niger State, north-central Nigeria) on November 21 (see Fides, November 24 and 26, 2025) have be ...
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  19 December 2025
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - UN staff member killed detained by South Sudanese security forces Juba (Agenzia Fides) – Tensions have risen between the Government of South Sudan and the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) following the death, under circumstances that remain unclear, of a mission staff ...
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  18 December 2025
  AFRICA/SUDAN - New drone attacks and threats to oil production Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – Drones belonging to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have attacked the city of Atbara in northern Sudan, targeting power infrastructure and other sites, according to local media reports. The RS ...
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  17 December 2025
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Priest reported missing since December 3 arrested under unconstitutional circumstances Kampala (Agenzia Fides) – The Uganda Catholic Lawyers Society (UCLS) has denounced the arrest of Rev. Fr. Deusdedit Ssekabira, a Catholic priest from the Diocese of Masaka, who had been missing since December 3, as a v ...
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  17 December 2025
  AFRICA/DR. CONGO - After capturing Uvira, the M23 continues its advance south Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The M23/AFC (Congo River Alliance) guerrilla fighters announced on December 16 that they had withdrawn from the city of Uvira in South Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, n ...
• 17 December 2025
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Appointment of bishop of Chimoio Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Lúcio Andrice Muandula, until now bishop of Xai-Xai, as bishop of the diocese of Chimoio, Mozambique. Bishop Lúcio Andrice Muandula was born on 9 Oct ...
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  17 December 2025
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Doctors with Africa CUAMM celebrate the 25th anniversary of St. Luke hospital in Wolisso Wolisso (Agenzia Fides) – Twenty-five years later, in the Jubilee year, Doctors with Africa CUAMM celebrates the anniversary of the construction of St. Luke hospital in Wolisso, and the adjacent training center for nur ...
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  15 December 2025
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - The Chigubhu lantern: students transform waste into renewable energy-powered lanterns Seke (Agenzia Fides) - Turning waste into renewable energy-powered lanterns. This is the project of a local innovator Aluwaine Tanaka Manyonga from the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, who invented the so-called "Chigubhu" la ...
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  15 December 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The tragedy of the conquest of Uvira: “Drones, rockets, and mortar bombs against civilians” Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – On December 10, 2025, troops of the M23/AFC (Congo River Alliance), supported by Rwandan forces, declared the conquest of Uvira, the second largest city after Bukavu in South Kivu, the easter ...
• 14 December 2025
  AFRICA/KENYA - Appointment of Auxiliary Bishop of Kisumu Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Leo XIV, has appointed Rev. Fr. Vicent Ouma Odundo, currently Vicar General of the same Archdiocese, as Auxiliary Bishop of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kisumu, assignin ...
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  13 December 2025
  AFRICA/KENYA - The pilgrimage of hope and solidarity of the missionary children of the Diocese of Kakamega Kakamega (Agenzia Fides) - Clothing, food, prayer materials, financial aid, and smiles. These are the gifts that some 30 children belonging to the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood of the Diocese of Kakamega, Ke ...
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  11 December 2025
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Call for unity and collective responsibility: meeting on promoting peacebuilding and a peaceful electoral environment Tombura Yambio (Agenzia Fides) – “Peace is our inheritance; reconciliation is our path; unity is our future. Peace will not come from one group alone. It will come from all of us, hand in hand, heart by heart, villag ...
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  10 December 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Despite Peace Agreement: M23 Advance towards Uvira Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The strategically important city of Uvira is in the sights of the M23 rebel movement. According to the United Nations, the rebels, supported by elements of the Rwandan army, are advancing tow ...
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  9 December 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishop of Kontagora: "The freed hostages are on their way to their families" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – "The 100 freed children and young people are on their way from Minna, the capital of Niger State, to Papiri to return to their families," reports Bishop Bulus Dauwa Yohanna of Kontagora, the dio ...