Africa

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  6 October 2023
  AFRICA/TOGO- Caritas and "Justice and Peace" project to prevent conflict on the Togo-Benin border Lomé (Fides News agency) - The cross-border project "Nuwaki Togo-Benin", implemented by the Episcopal Council for Justice and Peace of the Togolese Diocese of Dapaong in collaboration with Caritas Natitingou (Benin), h ...
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  6 October 2023
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Pre-Election Clashes in Foya Foya (Fides News Agency) - Twenty years ago with the peace agreements signed in Accra, Ghana, one of the bloodiest pages of African history came to an end: the dual Liberian civil war. "The memory of the conflict, of the ...
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  5 October 2023
  AFRICA/KENYA - Kenyan delegation presents expectations and hopes of Kenyan Catholics at synod Nairobi ( Fides News Agency) - The expectations and hopes of Kenyan Catholics are being brought to the Assembly of the Synod of Bishops by the Kenyan delegation, represented by the President of the Kenya Conference of Ca ...
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  5 October 2023
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Annalena Tonelli: Somali Church remembers the martyr on the 20th anniversary of her murder Djibouti ( Fides News Agency) - "I chose to be for others: the poor, the suffering, the abandoned, the unloved, which I was as a child and so I have been and I trust to continue until the end of my life. I wanted to foll ...
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  4 October 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - 5 female students kidnapped from a university hostel in the north of the country Abuja (Fides News Agency ) - At least five female students were abducted by an armed group that attacked a hostel at the Federal University of Dutsin-Ma, in Katsina State, northern Nigeria. Reports indicate that the ass ...
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  4 October 2023
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Severe humanitarian crisis on Sudan-South Sudan border; war in Khartoum continues unabated Khartoum (Fides News Agency) - The humanitarian crisis in Sudan is worsening with strong repercussions in neighboring countries especially South Sudan. The World Food Program (WFP) has sounded the alarm over the looming ...
• 4 October 2023
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Resignation of Archbishop of Gagnoa Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father accepted the resignation of Bishop of Molegbe Joseph Aké Yapo from the pastoral governance of the Archdiocese of Gagnoa (Ivory Coast). (EG) ( Fides News Agency 04/10/2 ...
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  3 October 2023
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Ethnic conflicts, hunger and drought: despite numerous challenges, missionaries do not give up Robe (Agenzia Fides) - "The month of September is special in Ethiopia because the Ethiopian New Year begins, which this year is 2015, and we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Cross, which is also a national holiday. The st ...
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  3 October 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Detained priest accused of belonging to a separatist group released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Anambra State Police Command (southern Nigeria) has released Father Samuel Aniebonem and seven other people arrested on September 27 on charges of belonging to the Movement for the Actualizati ...
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  2 October 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Arrest of the alleged murderers of the seminarian burned alive Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The alleged murderers of Stephen Na'aman, the seminarian burned alive during the September 7 attack on the St. Raphael parish in Fadan Kamantan, in the diocese of Kafanchan, in the state of Kaduna ...
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  30 September 2023
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - The President of Bishops on the tragedies of emigration: our young people are dying at sea because they cannot benefit from the Country's riches Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "The first missionaries of the Society of African Missions (SMA) arrived in Ivory Coast in 1895. We are therefore a relatively young Church", declared to Fides Msgr Marcelin Yao Kouadio, Bishop ...
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  29 September 2023
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Ugandan troops invade South Sudanese territory: “Border dispute with Uganda should be resolved through diplomatic channels” Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The border dispute between Uganda and South Sudan should be resolved through diplomatic negotiations. This was stated by South Sudanese army spokesman Major General Lul Ruai Koang, saying the matte ...
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  28 September 2023
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - A priest and several teachers wounded by Anglophone separatists Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - A priest of the Missionary Society of St. Joseph of Mill Hill (MHM) was wounded in an attack on the parish of St. Martin of Tour in Kembong, in the diocese of Mamfe, in southwest Cameroon. Acco ...
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  27 September 2023
  AFRICA/CHAD - Chad is the fifth country in the world for the number of refugees per capita compared to the population N'Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - Despite being one of the poorest countries in the world, Chad hosts almost a million refugees, of which about 75% are Sudanese, 21% come from the Central African Republic and 4% from Nigeria a ...
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  27 September 2023
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Government takes action against Al Shabab militias: “The aim of the terrorists is to destroy the Somali people” Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - "The aim of the terrorists is to destroy the entire Somali people". In a statement, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud recalled that the al-Shabab militias do not shy away from destroying ...