Africa

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  5 June 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - 15 children die in botched vaccine campaign Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Fifteen young children have died in a botched measles vaccination campaign. Children, 5 years of age, lived in the village of Kapoeta, in the southeast of the Country. According to a survey conduct ...
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  5 June 2017
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Two "kamikaze children" blow themselves up in a refugee camp Kolofata (Agenzia Fides) - Two children with explosives, blew themselves up on Friday, June 3, near a refugee camp in northern Cameroon, which houses civilians displaced by Boko Haram's attacks in Nigeria. Nine people di ...
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  2 June 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - New controversy over Zuma after the publication of 100,000 confidential documents Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - Pressures on South African President Jacob Zuma are growing so that he resigns before his expiration in 2019. The publication of about 100,000 e-mails and confidential documents demonstrate ...
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  2 June 2017
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - "We cannot wait any longer": hunger emergency in eastern Africa Addis Abeba (Agenzia Fides) - The NGO World Vision has launched an alarm on the urgent need for aid for 25 million people and 700,000 children on the verge of dying due to hunger in eastern Africa. The severe drought tha ...
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  2 June 2017
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - The first "Weekend for the youth " organized by the Life and Love Education Center Fianarantsoa (Agenzia Fides) - On 27 and 28 May 2017, the E.V.A. Center (Life and Love Education) of the Diocese of Fianarantsoa (Madagascar) organized a weekend for young people between 18 to 30 years of age. This is w ...
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  1 June 2017
  AFRICA/MALI - "What is the aim of the article on alleged hidden accounts of the Bishops?" asks the Episcopal Conference Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "We are fully at the service of the Church's works", says a statement by the Bishops' Conference of Mali, sent to Fides, in response to the article published by the newspaper "Le Monde", accordin ...
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  30 May 2017
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Still two thousand Muslim refugees in the diocese of Bangassou; testimony of the Bishop to Fides Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Two thousand Muslims still find themselves in the Catholic mission. A part in the Minor Seminary, the others in the Cathedral and in the Bishop’s House", says to Agenzia Fides His Exc. Mgr. Ju ...
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  29 May 2017
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - "Clan rivalries and economic reasons facilitate the settling of the Islamic State", says Mgr. Bertin Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - "From what I have been told, members of the Islamic State pay better and therefore in the situation of Somalia's crisis it is easy to find followers" says to Agenzia Fides His Exc. Mgr. Giorgi ...
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  26 May 2017
  AFRICA/ETIOPIA - Even in Ethiopia, missionary childhood feast: prayer, sharing, mission, peace Adaba (Agenzia Fides) - May 19, is the anniversary of the founding of the Pontifical Society of Holy Childhood or Missionary Childhood, the anniversary of all missionary children. To celebrate the occasion, Apostolic Pre ...
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  26 May 2017
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - More than 410,000 Burundian refugees abroad; UNHCR "insufficient funds to handle the crisis" Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - Over 410,000 Burundians have taken refuge in neighboring countries for the last two years. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reports that this number is expected to inc ...
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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 ...