Africa

• 26 May 2014
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Elections contested: the only thing certain are the irregularities and suspicions of fraud Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - There is institutional clash in Malawi between outgoing President, Joyce Banda, and the Supreme Court, which quashed the decision of the Head of State to annul the vote on 20 May and to hold ne ...
• 26 May 2014
  AFRICA/CHAD - Thousands of displaced children in the Central African Republic left without education N'djamena (Agenzia Fides) - About 40,900 children and thousands of other young people displaced due to the violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) are stranded in transit camps in southern Chad without being able ...
• 26 May 2014
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Christian Churches condemn the death penalty imposed on a Christian woman accused of apostasy Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - In a joint statement, the churches in Sudan deplore the death sentence imposed on Mariam Yehya Ibrahim, a woman in her eighth month of pregnancy, accused of apostasy. Fr. Boutros Trille Kuku, D ...
• 23 May 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "The kidnapping of the girls in Chibok has united the Country", said the Bishop of Sokoto Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The abduction of about 200 students from the school in Chibok, in northern Nigeria, has joined the Country and caused a wave of international solidarity. This was stated by His Exc. Mgr. Mathew Ha ...
• 23 May 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - 132 children abducted by the LRA have been released Juba (Agenzia Fides) - 132 children abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA ) have been released by the Regional Taskforce of the African Union in charge of hunting down the rebel group of Ugandan origin that has be ...
• 22 May 2014
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Disorganization disturbs the conduct of the elections Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - In Malawi the chaotic organization of the presidential, parliamentary and local elctions held on 20 May, generated tensions and accidents. "Up until the early hours of the morning of 20 May l ...
• 22 May 2014
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Project for defeating forms of avoidable blindness affecting millions of Ethiopians Milan (Agenzia Fides) - Trachoma is one of the most common visual disorders in Africa and, if not treated timely, leads to permanent blindness. Ethiopia is one of the African countries with the highest incidence of peopl ...
• 22 May 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Patriarch Tawadros : let us all go and vote to elect the new President Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - On the eve of the Egyptian presidential election, scheduled for May 26 and 27, Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II issued a strong appeal to the faithful to go to the polls to give the Country a ...
• 21 May 2014
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Rapes, theft and destruction against the displaced persons in the refugee camp in Zamzam Nyala (Agenzia Fides) - The displaced people in the refugee camp in Zamzam, in El Fasher in North Darfur, have been living days of terror since the militia and paramilitary forces of the Central Reserve Forces, known as ...
• 21 May 2014
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "NATO office in Tripoli has been hit" says Mgr. Martinelli to Fides Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "We spent a quiet night, although I heard that the NATO offices linked to the European Union, that are here in Tripoli were bombed. Probably these two institutions were symbolically hit", says t ...
• 21 May 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Bomb explosions will not stop dialogue between Christians and Muslims", says the Archbishop of Jos Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is still confusing and the information on the number of people affected is still incomplete", says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Ignatius Ayau Kaigama, Archbishop of Jos, a city in ...
• 20 May 2014
  AFRICA/MALAWI - "The most uncertain elections in the last 20 years, but democracy is a fact accepted by all", says a missionary Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "In 20 years of democracy, these elections are the most uncertain in Malawi", says Fr. Piergiorgio Gamba, a Monfortan missionary who has been working in Malawi for decades, where today, 20 May, ...
• 20 May 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA - Overcrowding and lack of assistance aggravate the situation of children in refugee camps Kakuma (Agenzia Fides) – More and immediate physical space and additional support for children are among the emerging priorities in the Kakuma refugee camp, in north-western Kenya, where waves of refugees continue to a ...
• 20 May 2014
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "There are presuppositions for a Civil War, but the people want peace", said Mgr. Martinelli Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "No shooting, but the situation remains tense, because it is not clear what lies beneath and what the various militias want to do", says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Giovanni Innocenzo Martinel ...
• 19 May 2014
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA – Missionary children evangelize their peers with the first Bible in Oromo language Kofale (Agenzia Fides) - The first "little missionaries" left from Kofale, Arsi region of Ethiopia, ready to evangelize their peers in Gode. With their notebooks, in which were represented the most salient scenes of the ...