Africa

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  18 December 2023
  AFRICA/GUINEA - At least 8 dead after fuel depot explodes in residential area Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - At least eight people were killed and just over eighty injured and a residential area was completely devastated. This is the sad conclusion of the major fire that broke out on the night of Decem ...
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  18 December 2023
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Ten years of civil war: Sexual violence as a weapon of war Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Victims of sexual violence are the invisible victims of the civil war that broke out in South Sudan 10 years ago in December 2013 (see Fides, 16 and 18 December 2013). Sexual violence is a real wea ...
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  18 December 2023
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Diocese of Yei publishes five-year plan: evangelization, social development, economy Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "This is a very important event, both for the faith and for the holistic development of the Church," said the Bishop of Yei, Alex Lodiong Sakor, on the occasion of the presentation of the five-year ...
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  15 December 2023
  AFRICA/NIGER - Diocesan youth Days: Young people play an important role in the Christian communities of the Diocese of Niamey Dosso (Agenzia Fides) - "Young people play an important role in the Christian community of Dosso, as in all communities where there are young people," said the missionary Father Rafael Casamayor to Fides on the occasion ...
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  15 December 2023
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Justice and Peace Commission publishes election handbook Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "Citizen education is an essential part of any democratic society," says the handbook prepared by the Commission for Justice and Peace of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Southern Africa ...
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  13 December 2023
  AFRICA/NIGER - Humanitarian crisis in the Sahel region: Catholic Church provides aid Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - The Sahel is increasingly at risk of becoming a "humanitarian black hole". In addition to the region's internally displaced people, refugees from neighboring countries such as Nigeria and Sudan ...
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  12 December 2023
  AFRICA/NIGER - Sanctions against coup plotters extended: “The people of Niger are prepared to sacrifice their economy for nationalist pride” Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - The sanctions imposed by the Economic Community of West African States (CEDEAO/ECOWAS) against Niger following the military coup of July 26 that deposed President Mohamed Bazoum have been extende ...
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  11 December 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The priest and his companion kidnapped in southeastern Nigeria released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Father Kingsley Eze and his companion Uchenna Newman, who were victims of a kidnapping on November 30 in Umuekebi, Osuoweerre, in the Isiala Mbano local government region of the State of Imo, sout ...
• 11 December 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of Bishop of Ilorin Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 8, the Holy Father appointed the Reverend Anselm Pendo Lawani, until now diocesan administrator of Ilorin, Nigeria, as bishop of the same ecclesiastical circumscription. Msgr. ...
• 11 December 2023
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Resignation and appointment of Bishop of Tôlagnaro Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 5, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Tôlagnaro, Madagascar, presented by Bishop Vincent Rakotozafy. The Holy Father has appoin ...
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  7 December 2023
  AFRICA/KENYA - Agricultural workers from Malawi and Kenya are supposed to work in Israeli fields Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - African agricultural workers are to work in Israeli fields as a replacement for Palestinian and Thai workers. After around 220 agricultural workers were recruited in Malawi in recent weeks, it i ...
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  7 December 2023
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Suspected mastermind of failed coup attempt arrested Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - With the arrest of the former bodyguard of former President Ernest Bai Koroma and two police officers accused of having offered him refuge, the number of people arrested in Sierra Leone for the ...
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  6 December 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - At least 85 dead in an accidental military attack on Muslim procession Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu describes the attack by the Nigerian armed forces on a procession of Islamic believers celebrating the Mawlid an-Nabi holiday (birthday of the Prophet Mohammed ...
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  5 December 2023
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The war is becoming more complicated: the United Nations now decides to end the UN mission in Sudan Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The war in Sudan between the regular army (SAF) led by General Abdul Fattah al-Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) under the command of Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, known as Hemeti, now has an e ...
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  4 December 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The parish priest of St. Michael's Church in Umuekebi, Imo State kidnapped Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Another Catholic priest, Father Kingsley Eze, has been kidnapped in Nigeria. The parish priest of St. Michael Church of Umuekebi in Osuoweerre Autonomous Community in Isiala Mbano Local Government ...