Africa

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  7 December 2020
  AFRICA/GHANA - Ghana to vote: presidential and parliamentary elections begin Accra (Agenzia Fides) - Today 7th December 2020, 17,027,665 Ghanaians are expected to cast their votes as the country chooses its new president and members of parliament for the next four years. 12 candidates are contes ...
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  5 December 2020
  AFRICA/UGANDA - The drama of gender-based violence in refugee camps during the Covid-19 pandemic Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - "Looking at the situation in South Sudan, where conflicts and violence are the order of the day, there is no doubt that the refugees who fled their country and live in the camps are traumatized ...
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  4 December 2020
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Patriarch Tawadros II in a television interview: I suffer when I see the Church treated with neglect Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "I never wanted to become Patriarch" and "I suffer when I see that the Church is not valued and taken for granted". This was revealed by Pope Tawadros II, Coptic Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria, ...
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  4 December 2020
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Humanitarian agencies mobilized to help the populations of Tigray Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - As the government of Addis Ababa announces the victory against the rebel forces of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), the concerns of humanitarian agencies for the one million disp ...
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  4 December 2020
  AFRICA/GHANA - The Bishops: "May the vote be free and transparent" Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "While we reaffirm our confidence in the Electoral Commission to work to guarantee transparent elections, we urge you not to be negligent in carrying out this constitutional duty", say the Bishops ...
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  3 December 2020
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Humanitarian corridor for Tigray and dangers for Eritrean refugees Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - The Ethiopian government has signed an agreement with the United Nations to allow the creation of a humanitarian corridor "without obstacles", at least for the areas under the control of the ...
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  3 December 2020
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The priest kidnapped on 22 November has been released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We thank God because our brother Fr. Matthew Dajo was released safe and sound today Wednesday 2 December" . Thus His Exc. Mgr. Ignatius Ayau Kaigama, Archbishop of Abuja yesterday announced the r ...
• 3 December 2020
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Resignation of the Bishop of Kamina Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Diocese of Kamina (Democratic Republic of Congo), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Jean-Anatole Kalala Kaseba. (SL) (Age ...
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  2 December 2020
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Islamist threat in Kivu and Mozambique: States in southern Africa should act together Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Islamist threat in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in the north of Mozambique is a common challenge and all countries in southern Africa must face it together. This is ...
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  2 December 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - The Bishops: "No to the culture of hedonism that leads young people to ignore anti Covid-19 restrictions" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "People are tired of Covid-19 restrictions", says His Exc. Mgr. Sithembele Sipuka, Bishop of Mthatha and President of SACBC (Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference, which brings toge ...
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  2 December 2020
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - Farewell to Archbishop Henri Teissier: he wanted to make known the importance of St. Augustine's African origins Algiers (Agenzia Fides) - He left this world on the feast of Blessed Charles de Foucauld: Henri Antoine Marie Teissier, Archbishop Emeritus of Algiers, died yesterday, December 1st, at the age of 91, due to the consequen ...
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  1 December 2020
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Cardinal Nzapalainga on the death of Kobine Lamaya: a "peacemaker" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a baobab that has fallen, because this man was a scholar, a man of wisdom, who spoke of unity and had respect and appreciation for his fellow men ", said His Eminence Cardinal Dieudonné N ...
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  1 December 2020
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - The Church continues to pray for peace while the situation in Tigray remains uncertain Addis Abeba (Agenzia Fides) - While the government of Addis Ababa announced that Mekelle, the capital of the Tigray region, had been taken by the Ethiopian army and declared victory over the Tigray People's Liberation Fr ...
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  30 November 2020
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Uncertain situation in Tigray, concern for the fate of 100,000 Eritrean refugees Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - "I launch a strong appeal to the Prime Minister of Ethiopia so that the situation of 100,000 Eritrean refugees is urgently addressed", said UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, ...
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  30 November 2020
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - At least 110 dead in Nigeria after suspected Boko Haram attack; there is still no news of a kidnapped priest Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The United Nations has declared that over 110 farmers were killed by the rebels of Boko Haram on November 28, in the village of Zabarmari, a community of rice farmers in the Jere area of the State ...