Africa

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  10 October 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "Let us commit ourselves, as Catholics, to fight crime and violence" urges a priest Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "The latest crime statistics in South Africa describe a worrying upward trend of violent crimes, and therefore as Catholics we need to translate our commitment into active participation to ...
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  8 October 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - Massacre of Mandera: the police claim to have "vital clues" on the reason and the perpetrators Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We are following crucial leads that would unearth those behind the attack", said Mandera County Commissioner Fredrick Shisia, in northeast Kenya, where on 6 October six people were killed, thr ...
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  8 October 2016
  AFRICA/GHANA - "It is time for Catholics and Anglicans to join hands to fight the social ills of Ghana" says Anglican Primate of the Province of West Africa Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "It is time for the Anglican Church of Ghana and the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference to join hands to fight poverty, child trafficking, climate change and other social ills eating into the fab ...
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  7 October 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Inmate accused of the New Year massacre in the church of Alexandria released from prison Alexandria (Agenzia Fides) - He was released from prison accused of having planned and carried out the attack on New Year's Eve 2011 at the Coptic church of Saints Mark and Peter in Alexandria, Egypt, which caused 23 dea ...
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  7 October 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - "The massacre in Mandera is part of a long sequence of blood", says the Bishop of Garissa Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Once again workers from other parts of Kenya were hit, in a terrorist attack which recalls other attacks committed by the Shabaab in the area, whose victims have always been foreign workers. Th ...
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  6 October 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The government prohibits Coptic demonstrations on the anniversary of "massacre of Maspero" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Egyptian Ministry of Internal Affairs denied the associations of young Copts permission to organize a demonstration on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the massacre known as the "massa ...
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  6 October 2016
  AFRICA/CONGO - Guerrilla in the south of Congo resumes: 23 dead Brazzaville (Agenzia Fides) - 23 people were killed in the attacks committed in late September in the Republic of Congo by former members of the Ninjas Nsiloulou rebel group. This was announced by the Minister of Justice ...
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  6 October 2016
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Illegal migration is bad, yes to legal migration but the key is the development of Africa Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - Africa questions the tragedy of irregular migration which sees many young people often lose their lives in the mirage of a better life in Europe. In Conakry, the capital of the Republic of Guine ...
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  6 October 2016
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The number of deaths due to diarrheal diseases Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The death toll of the recent outbreak of diarrheal diseases in Sudan continues to increase and medical facilities have difficulties in keeping the situation under control. The most vulnerable s ...
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  5 October 2016
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "Fighting at km5 after the killing of a military commander" report Fides sources Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - A Central African army chief, Marcel Mombeka, was killed yesterday morning near km5, the Muslim area of the Central African Republic capital, Bangui. During the ambush the military’s 14-year-ol ...
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  5 October 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Need to separate presidential, legislative and local elections to overcome the crisis Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Joseph Kabila, confirmed on October 4 the postponement of the presidential elections which were to be held before 19 December, the expiry date ...
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  5 October 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Four Copts (including a child) kidnapped in the province of Assiut Assiut (Agenzia Fides) - Four Coptic Christians, one of whom is also a 9-year-old boy, were kidnapped on October 3 in the city of Manfalut, in the province of Assiut, 350 km south of Cairo. The kidnappers initially deman ...
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  4 October 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Auxiliary Bishop of Juba: "There is no need to tell lies: people suffer. There is no peace without justice" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "There is no need to tell lies. They do not help us. This country is sinking. We need to get up and stand strong and say God help us to carve a new way, rather than denying the suffering of the peo ...
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  4 October 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Congolese crisis threatens to set fire to the whole area of the Great Lakes Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Besides the political instability experienced in the Democratic Republic of Congo there is also instability in peripheral areas, such as in Central Kasai (see Fides 26/09/2016) and especially ...
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  3 October 2016
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Restructuring of the Somali intelligence; Turkey announces the opening of its first base in the Country Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - 1,500 officers and intelligence agents in Somalia have been dismissed, including the head-center of the capital, Mogadishu. This was decided by General Abdullahi Gafow, according to whom the d ...