Africa

• 22 February 2024
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Erection of the diocese of Boké, Guinea, and appointment of first bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has erected the new diocese of Boké, Guinea, with territory taken from the archdiocese of Conakry. The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Moïse Tinguiano, of the cler ...
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  22 February 2024
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Naval agreement between Somalia and Turkey to counter the one between Ethiopia and Somaliland? Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - "Somalia does not want foreign powers to fight on its territory," said Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, assuring that the naval military agreement approved yesterday February 21st (but ...
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  21 February 2024
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The ten-month war has devastated the country Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The war that broke out in Sudan ten months ago has triggered a devastating humanitarian crisis. As of January 2024, there were over 10.7 million displaced people, the largest displacement crisi ...
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  21 February 2024
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Gorom: Precarious conditions in refugee camps Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "The most basic services are lacking, refugees in the Gorom camp, west of Juba, the capital of South Sudan, are struggling to get food," report local sources, given the deteriorating conditions ...
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  20 February 2024
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Zimbabwean bishops warn of increasing poverty in their Country Harare (Agenzia Fides) - Another Bishops' Conference in Africa warns that the government's economic policies are worsening the poverty in which the majority of the population lives. Like the Bishops of Nigeria (see Fides ...
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  19 February 2024
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Resumption of jihadist attacks in the north, but with a new "modus operandi" Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Attacks by jihadists linked to the ISIS militia "Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jamma'ah" have increased in the Pemba province, northern Mozambique. In recent days, the small Mozambican fishing village of Q ...
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  19 February 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - President of the Bishops' Conference: “Economic reforms lead to extreme poverty” Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - " As a result of the government’s reform agenda, millions of Nigerians have been reduced to a life of grinding poverty, wanton suffering, and untold hardship as never before in our national hist ...
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  16 February 2024
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - The Constitutional Court cancels the postponement of the vote decided by President Sall Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "Senegal has lost the title of African champion of football nations, but retains the title of beacon of democracy in Africa", says a headline on the Burkinabe news portal "Wakatsera" on the decisi ...
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  16 February 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Kidnappings in Nigeria are now out of control: Dicastery for Evangelization expresses solidarity with those affected by Luca Mainoldi Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "In these trying times, this Dicastery offers its deepest and heartfelt solidarity to the Nigerian people, who are grappling with a crisis that is expanding in scope and intens ...
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  15 February 2024
  AFRICA/GHANA - The Minister of Finance fired in view of the most challenging electoral campaign in the country's history Accra (Agenzia Fides) - After Senegal (see Fides, 12/2/2024) now also Ghana (the two most stable countries in West Africa) has entered into crisis, albeit with a severity that is currently less worrying than the first. T ...
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  15 February 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - North Kivu: two South African soldiers die in an attack on a military base Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The situation in North Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is deteriorating. Yesterday, February 14, two South African soldiers were killed and three others wounded whe ...
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  14 February 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - An alleged kidnapper of the two Claretian fathers has been arrested Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - An alleged kidnapper of the two Claretian fathers kidnapped on the night of February 1 in Plateau State, in central Nigeria, and then released on February 8, has been arrested (see Fides, 8/2/2024 ...
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  13 February 2024
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - The refugees from the Corrane refugee camp to Cardinal Tagle: we ask the Pope for prayers so that this war ends and we can return home" by Antonella Prenna Nampula (Agenzia Fides) - "Your Eminence, I would like to ask you to tell Pope Francis to pray for us, pray that this war ends and that we can return home". This is the request of a refugee from t ...
• 13 February 2024
  AFRICA/KENYA - Appointment of auxiliary bishops of Nairobi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the following as auxiliary bishops of the metropolitan archdiocese of Nairobi, Kenya: the Reverend Simon Peter Kamomoe, of the clergy of the same archdiocese, ...
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  13 February 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The advance of the M23 towards Goma triggers waves of protests in the Country Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "I have come to reassure you that we are working to bring peace to North Kivu. You must remain calm. Hand in hand, we will drive out the Rwandan M23 rebels who are attacking us", said the milit ...