Africa

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  4 August 2023
  AFRICA/NIGER - "Military intervention on part of the CEDEAO/ECOWAS is no bluff, but would be the worst possible answer" Niamey (Fides News Agency) - "I don't believe it to be a bluff" stated Rahmane Idrissa, a Nigerien researcher at the University of Leiden, with regard to a possible military intervention on part of the Economic Community ...
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  3 August 2023
  AFRICA/NIGER - Demonstration in support of putschist junta Niamey (Fides News Agency) - A large demonstration in Niamey today, August 3, in support of the putschist military government on the day of the 63rd anniversary of Niger's independence from France. Some of the demonstra ...
• 2 August 2023
  AFRICA/ CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO - Resignation of the Bishop of Molegbe Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - On August 1 the Holy Father accepted the Bishop of Molegbe's resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Molegbe presented by Bishop Dominique Bulamatari. (EG) (Fides Ne ...
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  2 August 2023
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - "We are still dealing with the spontaneous protests of a youth that's angry because they have no future" Dakar (Fides News Agency) – "These are spontaneous protests of a younger population with no future. At the moment there are no groups organizing the riots", Fides News Agency was told by Fr. Bruno Favero, with the Obla ...
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  1 August 2023
  AFRICA/NIGER - A foretold coup? Amidst a stifled political system and the ambitions of the military, an initial analysis of the putsch Niamey (Fides News Agency). It is still too early to make an in-depth analysis of the military coup in Niger, but some considerations can be made with the help of Rahmane Idrissa, a Nigerien researcher with the Universit ...
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  31 July 2023
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Voting held to modify the constitution to allow the President to run for third term Bangui (Fides News Agency) - Voting was held yesterday, Sunday July 30th, in the Central African Republic for the constitutional referendum to allow the president, Faustin Archange Touadéra, to run for a third term. Ac ...
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  31 July 2023
  AFRICA/ CÔTE D'IVOIRE - Youths from ten of the country's dioceses ready for WYD Yopougon (Fides News Agency) - Father Régis Akpess is the diocesan director of The Pontifical Mission Societies in Yopougon, one of the ten dioceses in Côte d'Ivoire taking part in World Youth Day in Lisbon. "When my b ...
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  29 July 2023
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Proclaiming Jesus in the midst of the new miseries of the world, on the Antsirabe plateau Ambanja (Agenzia Fides) - Sister Germana Boschetti is one of the five pioneers of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians in Madagascar. "We arrived in Ambanja on October 15, 1985, at the beginning we studied the Malaga ...
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  28 July 2023
  AFRICA/NIGER - Coup: Situation in Niamey still uncertain Niamey (Fides News Agency) - The situation is still uncertain in Niamey, Niger's capital city, where a military coup is taking place (see Fides 27/7/2023). President Mohamed Bazoum is still being held in his residence, s ...
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  28 July 2023
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - So much suffering, but also deep humanity due to the dramatic situation of the population of Las Anod Las Anod (Agenzia Fides) - The situation in Las Anod, in the Somali region of Sool, is always more dramatic. Efforts to reach a ceasefire have failed. The local authorities of the Dhulbahante clan demand the withdrawal o ...
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  27 July 2023
  AFRICA/NIGER - A missionary to Fides: Coup d'état - "In Niamey the situation is calm at the moment" Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "Following the announcement of the "coup" during the night, everything is calm in the streets. Some wounded have been transferred to the national hospital, probably as a result of the shots fired ...
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  27 July 2023
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - There is a lack of financial resources to welcome the many candidates for priestly life Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - On August 15, the Catholic Church in Burundi will celebrate the final events of the Jubilee for 125 years of Evangelization, which began on October 1, 2022 (see Fides, 17/3/2023). Despite th ...
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  26 July 2023
  AFRICA/MALAWI - "You choose the future": 50 years of the Association of Catholic Women in Malawi Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "You have to choose the Malawi you want. Currently, things are not okay and we cannot continue with the way things are. You have that responsibility and power to choose the future", exhorted Ms ...
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  26 July 2023
  AFRICA/UGANDA - The family is the main formation center for young people: Bishop Wanok urges unity in the fight against corruption Lira (Agenzia Fides) - The bishop of the diocese of Lira, Sanctus Lino Wanok said "corruption in the current world is becoming a setback to human progress and is destroying the society and its values". The bishop implore ...
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  25 July 2023
  AFRICA/SUDAN - 100 days of fighting in Sudan and no peace in sight Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - As the Sudanese conflict enters its 100th day, one of the two parties involved, the regular army (Sudanese Armed Forces - SAF) rejects the mediation initiated by IGAD (Intergovernmental Authori ...