Africa

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  24 May 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Kiir declares ceasefire and starts a national dialogue but his main opponent is excluded Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "Riek Machar is our leader and commander in chief, we will not send any delegates to Juba without his order", said Paul Gabriel, spokesman of the Sudan's People's Liberation Movement Opposition (SP ...
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  24 May 2017
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Cholera emergency in the capital of northern Kordofan El Obeid (Agenzia Fides) - Cholera cases were reported for the first time in El Obeid, capital of the state of northern Kordofan. So far 68 people have been hospitalized. According to local medical sources, the first inf ...
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  23 May 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - South African Bishops denounce: "1 in 5 children have been sexually abused" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "Each crime against a woman and child causes the delicate fabric of our society to unravel that much more" denounces His Exc. Mgr. Stephen Brislin, Archbishop of Cape Town and President of ...
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  22 May 2017
  AFRICA/MALI - "Mgr. Zerbo was pleasantly surprised of the appointment to Cardinal" Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The Archbishop was pleasantly surprised by the news. He did not expect the appoinment to Cardinal at all", said Fr. Edmond Dembele, Secretary General of the Bishops' Conference of Mali, referrin ...
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  22 May 2017
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Bishops’s message: "Produce good fruits as evidence of your repentance" Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - Faced with the worsening of the Country's conditions in various areas, the Bishops' Conference of Madagascar has recently published a message to all the baptized and people of good will, re ...
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  20 May 2017
  AFRICA/MALI - Sister Glory, kidnapped one hundred days ago, no news yet Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "Life continues timidly in the Diocese of Sikasso, on the one hand the community of the Franciscan Sisters of Maria Immacolata of Karangasso who had to stop working commitments, on the other no n ...
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  19 May 2017
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - Crisis in the DRC: is an external intervention being prepared? Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A meeting on the crises in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Burundi was held where representatives of the two States were not invited and Angola was the only African State admitted. The mee ...
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  17 May 2017
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Muslim refugees in the mosque in Bangassou welcomed in the cathedral and seminary Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - According to the UN 26 people died in the attack in Bangassou, in the southeast of the Central African Republic, due to a hundred anti Balaka. The Central African Red Cross believes the toll coul ...
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  17 May 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - UNESCO will proclaim the "Path of the Holy Family" World Heritage of Humanity Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - UNESCO is preparing to recognize the "Path of the Holy Family", the itinerary that unites the places travelled, according to the millennial traditions, by Mary, Joseph and the Child Jesus when the ...
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  17 May 2017
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Even Madagascar celebrated the centenary of Fatima's first apparition Fianarantsoa (Agenzia Fides) - "On the occasion of the centenary of the first apparition of Our Lady in Fatima, two pilgrimages were organized in Fianarantsoa". This is what Father Albert Rainiherinoro, MI told Fides. "T ...
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  16 May 2017
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Cardinal Nzapalainga and Bishop Aguirre mediate with the rebels in Bangassou Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Archbishop of Bangui, is at the head of the mediation mission that has convinced some hundreds of rebels to leave Bangassou, the city in the south-east of the Cen ...
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  16 May 2017
  AFRICA/GHANA - Respect for laws and human rights is fundamental to managing migration Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "Ghana’s natural resources have become a curse rather than blessings as a result of wanting distortion left behind by those involved in illegal mining of the earth for God given gifts of preciou ...
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  16 May 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Inauguration of the church built in the village of Ismailia with the offerings of Muslims Minya (Agenzia Fides) - It took little more than a year to build the second church in the village of Ismailia, in the Egyptian province of Minya. The Christian place of worship was also built in a short space of time tha ...
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  15 May 2017
  AFRICA/IVORY COST - The protests of the mutinied military continues; in Odienne the Bishop joins the mediation Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) – In Abidjan and Bouaké the military have taken to the streets and continue protesting by shooting in the air and terrorizing the population. The mutinied demand the payment of the remainder o ...
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  15 May 2017
  AFRICA/CENTRAFRICA - Dramatic situation in the south-east: hundreds of dead in clashes; civilian refugees in churches and mosques Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - There are over 130 deaths in Alindao in the south-east of the Central African Republic, caused by armed groups who also attacked Bangassou (230km east of Alindao), where 6 Blue Helmets were kille ...