Africa

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  12 July 2019
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Presidential elections: tensions over the Ivorian Independent Electoral Commission Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - The new Ivorian Independent Electoral Commission (CEI), set up to prepare for the presidential elections to be held in 2020 (see Fides, 9/10/2018) is already a source of controversy. "There are ...
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  12 July 2019
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Bishops ask the new government to guarantee peace and security Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Guinea-Bissau have asked the new government to guarantee peace and national security, in order to bring the country out of the crisis in which it has fallen in recent years. In pa ...
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  11 July 2019
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Drought emergency: 2.3 million people in a state of food insecurity, of whom 490,000 are children Chiulo (Agenzia Fides) - In the south of Angola, in the provinces of Cunene, Huila and Namibe, a state of emergency due to drought has persisted for over six months, with very serious repercussions on the health conditio ...
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  11 July 2019
  AFRICA - A special issue of Mundo Negro to have "Africa in hand" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - A continent with one billion and 300 million inhabitants, 40% of whom are under 15, and 60% do not reach 25 years of age. And it is to this Africa that the magazine Mundo Negro, published in Spain ...
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  10 July 2019
  AFRICA/UGANDA - "We want the truth about the murder of Brother Mugarura", says Bishop Emeritus of Masaka to Agenzia Fides Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - "We are trying to verify the circumstances of the death of Brother Norbert Emmanuel Mugarura", says His Exc. Mgr. John Baptist Kaggwa, Bishop emeritus of Masaka to Agenzia Fides, with regards to ...
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  10 July 2019
  AFRICA/EGYPT - New Institutes of Coptic Studies are spreading in public universities Alexandria of Egypt (Agenzia Fides) - With an unprecedented initiative, Egyptian political institutions have decided to invest resources to support the opening of institutes, centers and departments in public universitie ...
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  10 July 2019
  AFRICA/NIGER - Father Maccalli: the father who thinks of all, Christians and Muslims, Gurmancè and Peulh, Haussa and Zerma Bomoanga (Agenzia Fides) - "Hello Father Gigi, we have been praying for your release and that of other hostages whose names we do not know for ten months". This is the beginning of the letter that Father Vito Girotto, of ...
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  9 July 2019
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Catholic priest killed Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - "He was a true servant of God" said Brother Charles Dominic Kagoye, spokesman for the Brothers of St. Charles Lwanga, in remembering, Fr. Norbert Emmanuel Mugarura, who was killed on July 3. The ...
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  9 July 2019
  AFRICA/NIGER - Continental free trade area: a major step in Africa's economic development Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - More than one billion people from 55 countries are the bases on which the African continental free trade area (Zlec) will be built. The initiative was born during the summit of the African Union ...
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  9 July 2019
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Archbishop Angaelos: martyrs are not "victims" but "witnesses" London (Agenzia Fides) - Christian martyrs killed in odium fidei are not "victims" but "witnesses", and media must take seriously the responsibility they have in reporting persecution, because a headline just for a few e ...
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  9 July 2019
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bosco Ntaganda convicted of war crimes by The International Criminal Court ICC Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The International Criminal Court convicted a notorious rebel commander known as "The Terminator" of 18 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes including murder, rape and sexual slavery ...
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  8 July 2019
  AFRICA/GHANA - The youth: "No to the new Chamber, a $ 200 million project" Accra (Agenzia Fides) - Ghanaian youth have called on members of parliament of the republic to turn their minds from building a new parliament Chamber to accommodate over 600 members from the current seating capacity of ...
• 8 July 2019
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Appointment of the Bishop of Moramanga Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed His Exc. Mgr. Rosario Saro Vella, S.D.B., as Bishop of the Diocese of Moramanga (Madagascar), transferring him from the Diocese of Ambanja. (SL) (Agenz ...
• 8 July 2019
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Appointment of the Auxiliary of Antananarivo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis appointed the Rev. Jean Pascal Andriantsoavina, of the clergy of Antananarivo, former Rector of the Philosophical major interdiocesan Seminary of Antsirabé, as Auxi ...
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  6 July 2019
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - General Secretary of the Holy Childhood: promoting missionary spirituality among children and young people Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church in the Democratic Republic of Congo is alive, lively and present at every level, and shows particular attention in the human and Christian education of children and young people ...