Africa

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  15 November 2017
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - "The population is at work and the spirit is high" in Harare, where the military has taken control Harare (Agenzia Fides) - "The military has taken control of the key points of the capital: the presidential palace, parliament, airport, bus station, and the radio and television headquarters", says the Commission of Soc ...
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  14 November 2017
  AFRICA - Migrants and land-grabbing, spies of injustice; the commitment of all against fake news Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Migrants from Africa are the spies of a series of global economic and social injustices who call all to work for true justice based on solidarity: this is the sense of the series of speeches during ...
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  14 November 2017
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Elections in Somaliland, Mgr. Bertin: "Democracy is possible in the Horn of Africa" Djibouti (Agenzia Fides) – The vote in Somalia gives hope and represents an encouraging form of democracy: the November 13 elections, to choose the president who will succeed Ahmed Mohamed Silanyo, took place regularly ...
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  13 November 2017
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - An attack against a peace concert in the Muslim area relights tensions in Bangui Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Four dead and about twenty injured is the toll of the explosive attack against a coffee bar on November 11 in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic. Some strangers threw an explosive w ...
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  11 November 2017
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Eritrea: a "North Korea of Africa" «Eritrea is the country with less freedom in the world ». These words come not from someone who opposes president Isayas Afeworki or from the hated government of Ethiopia, instead they come from an official United Nati ...
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  10 November 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - New jihadist threats against Copts: they must be eliminated because they build churches, evangelize, do not respect the Sharia Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Coptic Christians in Egypt do not accept the condition of submission imposed on Christians in Islamic societies: they continue to build churches and even promote television networks to spread the ...
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  10 November 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bishops launch a National Dialogue Forum while the political crisis risks making the country explode Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "The Country is now threatened with disintegration and conflict, if the situation witnessed currently is anything to go by. This is why we have announced to organize a National Dialogue Forum, w ...
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  8 November 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The extension of Kabila's mandate has the support of the United States Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Outgoing President Joseph Kabila has received some important international awards as the expiration of his mandate, as envisaged by the San Silvestro Agreement, signed on December 31, 2016, is ...
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  7 November 2017
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Tunisia: culture promotes interreligious dialogue In Tunisia, culture plays a very important role in interreligious dialogue and mutual understanding and acceptance among different peoples and civilizations. This is what the director of the Bardo Museum in Tunis, Moncef ...
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  7 November 2017
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Joint appeal of African and European Bishops: "Human trafficking and brain drain from Africa are being fought" Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "We call for justice and equity in trade in goods and services, but especially with regard to natural resources, which are taken each year from Africa", say the Bishops of Africa and Europe, in ...
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  7 November 2017
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Childhood denied for the Karamoja children, among misery and begging Karamoja (Agenzia Fides) - They sit all day, until two or three at night, at the edge of the streets, begging for a few pennies. They cannot have a hot meal, go to school, play, wash, feel safe and secure. They are child ...
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  6 November 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Al Azhar on the massacre in the US church: all religions forbid to shed innocent blood Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Violence acts "which desecrate the holiness of places of worship and destroy innocent lives threaten the people's stability and security". And the shedding of innocent blood, irrespective of race ...
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  6 November 2017
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - Presidential elections on 23 December 2018; the opposition protests: "so Kabila remains in power until January 2019" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Presidential, legislative, provincial and local elections will be held on December 23, 2018 in the Democratic Republic of Congo. "At 6pm, yesterday, Sunday, November 5, 2017, the election calen ...
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  6 November 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Nomadic herdsmen in Taraba force settled farmers to flee Jalingo (Agenzia Fides) - Many ethnic groups live in the state of Taraba, one of Nigeria’s 36 States situated in the eastern part of the Country, bordering Cameroon. Tribes are divided into settled farmers, mostly Cath ...
• 6 November 2017
  AFRICA/GABON - Appointment of the Bishop of Franceville Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On November 4, 2017, the Holy Father appointed as Bishop of the diocese of Franceville (Gabon), the Rev. Jean-Patrick Iba-Ba, currently rector of the “Saint Augustin” national major sem ...