Africa

• 5 September 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Deceptions of war on the border between Congo and Rwanda Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – To create a "plausible" pretext to the Rwandese army in order to officially enter the Congolese territory. This seems to be the purpose of the artillery shots fired on and around Gisenyi, a R ...
• 5 September 2013
  AFRICA/NIGER - Prevention against malaria for more than 180,000 children Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - For the first time in Niger a prevention campaign has started against malaria which involves the treatment of children between three months and 5 years of age with a specific treatment called che ...
• 4 September 2013
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Mgr. Bertin: "I hope in authentic dialogue with regards to the need for everybody to get out of the crisis in Somalia" Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - "Opponents, Shabaab or others, have targeted government and foreign organization representatives and their staff. This is because they want to destabilize the Somali institutions in the recons ...
• 4 September 2013
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Threats to the distribution of water in Tripoli Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - The kidnapping of Anoud Senussi, daughter of Gaddafi's former intelligence chief, Abdullah Senussi, has raised protests from the Margani tribe, to whom the family of the kidnapped belongs. The ...
• 3 September 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - The inhabitants of the villages where a military offensive against the guerrillas is planned is caught between two fires Kinshasa ( Agenzia Fides) - "The population is trying to lead a normal life but attentive to what is happening because a new wave of violence is always feared" say to Fides Agency Church sources from Goma, the capital of ...
• 3 September 2013
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - The harsh survival of people with disabilities in the Country Freetown ( Agenzia Fides) - The civil war in Sierra Leone has left tens of thousands of disabled people, many of whom have suffered amputations. However, while the war victims receive aid, people suffering from various d ...
• 3 September 2013
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Libya struggles to find stability two years after Gaddafi’s escape from Tripoli Tripoli ( Agenzia Fides) - A passenger who blocked the airport for an hour because he wanted at all costs to embark with his sick mother on a direct flight to Tunis, the daughter of former intelligence chief of the old r ...
• 3 September 2013
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - The Country commits itself to prohibiting child labor in gold mines Dodoma (Agenzia Fides ) - Child labor in gold mines is one of the heaviest wounds that affect Tanzania. Children who are employed in the mines are orphaned or living in precarious conditions, they often do not reach 8 y ...
• 2 September 2013
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - The Church in North Africa sympathizes with that of the East Algiers ( Agenzia Fides) - The Catholics living in North Africa have welcomed the invitation to fasting and prayer for peace in Syria launched by the Archbishop of Tunis, Mgr. Ilario Antoniazzi, and the Bishop of Constan ...
• 2 September 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Patriarchate: no one can justify war under the pretext of defending the Christians Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "No one can justify military intervention in the Middle East under the pretext of defending the Christians. This is now valid in Syria. But even in the dramatic moment experienced by Egypt, the ex ...
• 2 September 2013
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Emergency for women and children in refugee camps Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - More than a million people still live scattered in Somalis refugee camps, among them women and children who live every day at great risk of violence of all kinds. Forced to flee and abandon th ...
• 31 August 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA – More witnesses on the fury against Christians Bangui ( Agenzia Fides) - A delegation from the diocese of Bouar went to Bohong (80 km from Bouar, in the west of the Central African Republic) where on Sunday, August 18 priests and nuns of the Sœurs de la Charité wer ...
• 31 August 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Rwanda says it was bombarded by the Congolese army. The UN "evidence on the support of Kigali to the rebels" Kinshasa ( Agenzia Fides) - Rwanda has accused government forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo of having fired artillery against its own territory, killing a woman and injuring her son. The authorities in Kinshasa ...
• 31 August 2013
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA – Death of Cardinal Mazombwe, Archbishop Emeritus of Lusaka Lusaka ( Agenzia Fides) - Strong emotion in Zambia for the death, on August 29, of Cardinal Medardo Joseph Mazombwe, Archbishop Emeritus of Lusaka. In a statement sent to Fides Agency by the Episcopal Conference of Zamb ...
• 30 August 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA – Seven people killed by the rebels Seleka in the north-west of the Country Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Still chaos and violence in the Central African Republic, a country that has been defined recently at risk of "Somalization" by French President François Hollande. The uncontrolled elements of t ...