Africa

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  18 December 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - After jihadist threats, the closure of Coptic monasteries for security reasons has been denied Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Historical Coptic monasteries in Wadi Natrun region will not suffer any closure for security reasons, after the jihadist threats aimed in particular against the monastery to Baramos, dedicated to ...
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  18 December 2015
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - 90% of voters approved the new constitution in Bangui Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - 90% of voters in Bangui voted "yes" to the constitutional referendum of December 13 (see Fides 17/12/2015), but the turnout was only 30% of voters in the capital of the Central African Republic, ...
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  18 December 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Appeal to the EU: "The crisis in Burundi threatens to spread to the entire Great Lakes region" Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - President Nkurunziza’s pursuit of a third term in office has precipitated a humanitarian, economic, and security crisis, forcing more than 200,000 Burundians to become refugees in neighborin ...
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  17 December 2015
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - At the beginning of the new school year, 574 students will have a renovated school Chipata (Agenzia Fides) - To ensure that learning is enjoyable as well as profitable, all students should be able to study in a safe and secure environment with appropriate ceilings, windows and desks. This is why the no ...
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  17 December 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Protests over the resignation of the Minister of Finance: "Zuma go away" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of people marched in major cities across South Africa on Wednesday December 9, to demand the resignation of President Jacob Zuma after sending away the Minister of Finance, Nhlanh ...
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  17 December 2015
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The Archbishop of Bangui: "Central Africans want peace and unity" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "We have seen the will of the people who want change and want to live within the law", says to Agenzia Fides His Exc. Mgr. Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Archbishop of Bangui, capital of the Central Afr ...
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  16 December 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Solar energy to light up the island of Sagbo Kodji Lagos (Agenzia Fides) - For the first time in his 30 years on Sagbo Kodji Island, near Lagos, the islanders have electricity at home, thanks to a solar power project that could transform the lives of the island’s 80,00 ...
• 16 December 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On September 19, 2015 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Shenouda Shafik Andrawes Khalil, of the clergy of the eparchy of ...
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  16 December 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - We hope for a peaceful Christmas after two years of Civil War Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "Two years after the outbreak of the civil war we continue to hope for peace, and perhaps this Christmas will be different from the last two, where we experienced suffering and fear", says a missi ...
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  15 December 2015
  AFRICA/DRC CONGO - The Bishops: "The Church is neutral", the participation at the meeting on African elections was called off Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of the Democratic Republic of Congo (CENCO) withdrew its representative, Don Leonard Santedi (Secretary General of CENCO), from the International Conference on the ele ...
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  15 December 2015
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Safe Birth after Ebola in a Country with the highest maternal mortality rate in the world Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - Sierra Leone is the country with the highest maternal mortality rate in the world. About one mother out of 100 cannot survive the birth of her child. In this dramatic scenery Ebola has caused n ...
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  15 December 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Are there connections between the Islamic Movement of Nigeria and Boko Haram? Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "In Nigeria we wonder why the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, IMN tried to kill the army Chief of Staff, General Yusuf Buratai, under whose guidance our military is inflicting hard defeats to Boko Ha ...
• 14 December 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Hundreds of cases of extrajudicial killings Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - There are between 150 and 200 people who were found dead in what appears to be extrajudicial killings in Bujumbura and in the "Rural Bujumbura", the suburban area of the capital of Burundi. Th ...
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  14 December 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Clashes between the army and members of a radical Shiite movement Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Dozens of people were killed in clashes between the Nigerian army and members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, IMN, a group formed by Islamist Shiites, in Zaria, in the north of the Country. A ...
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  11 December 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Assault against the barracks in the capital, the government said "attacks failed" Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - Heavy fighting took place last night and this morning in Bujumbura, capital of Burundi, where rebels who oppose the third term of President Pierre Nkurunziza, attacked all the barracks in the ...