Africa

• 30 January 2013
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Funding for AIDS drugs have halved while the Country must cope with flood damage Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "The contributions donated by the International Fund to Fight AIDS have halved, it is a real alarm. The funds allowed nearly 500,000 people to regularly get ARVs" is Fr. Piergiorgio Gamba’s c ...
• 30 January 2013
  AFRICA/SWAZILAND - Marriages between adult men and minor girls still go unpunished Mbabane (Agenzia Fides) - The phenomenon of early marriages between adult men and young girls still children, continues to be very serious in the world. Recent data highlight that about 70 million women between 20-24 yea ...
• 30 January 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Despite the peace agreements, violence against civilians continues Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - In spite of the peace agreements and the appointment of a Prime Minister in charge of forming a government of national unity, in the Central African Republic incidents of looting and violence aga ...
• 30 January 2013
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Over 50 thousand people displaced due to the floods Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Following the heavy rains that are flooding the southern part of Mozambique, where already a decade ago, hundreds of people died, local authorities have planned the evacuation of 50 000 people. S ...
• 29 January 2013
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - The Bishops denounce serious violations of human rights, "the Country is not in a state of emergency" Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - "The respect and protection of human rights in our Country is deteriorating at an alarming rate," say the Bishops of Zambia in their last Pastoral Letter, sent to Fides Agency. The document makes ...
• 29 January 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Boko Haram declares ceasefire in Borno State Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Boko Haram, or at least a part of this jihadist group that operates in northern Nigeria, has agreed to a ceasefire. According to the website of the newspaper "Nigerian Tribune", a group suspected ...
• 28 January 2013
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - The national stock of essential goods destroyed in the fire of the central market in Bujumbura Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "Traders have lost everything and the national stock of essential goods has been destroyed. Now skyrocketing prices will rise and people unfortunately pay the consequences," says to Fides Agen ...
• 28 January 2013
  AFRICA/MALI - The population of the cities liberated are celebrating Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "In the region liberated by jihadist groups, the population is celebrating" says to Fides Agency don Edmond Dembele, Secretary General of the Episcopal Conference of Mali, where the French and Ma ...
• 26 January 2013
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - 2013 State budget: social spending increases but those for the defense are still remain very high Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - The state budget in 2013 in Angola, approved by the National Assembly on January 15, is 6.6 trillion kwanza (about 69 billion U.S. dollars), an increase of 50% compared to 2012. The Government ha ...
• 25 January 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - The M23 asks to review the 2011 elections; "on what basis if it does not have popular consensus?" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Among the points that the M23, the guerrilla movement active in North Kivu (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo), has asked to discuss with the government of Kinshasa in the ongoing negotiatio ...
• 25 January 2013
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Some Western countries invite their countrymen to leave Benghazi Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) – Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands and Australia have urged their citizens to leave Benghazi immediately for fear of imminent terrorist attacks. An attack on oil installations is feared, ...
• 25 January 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Catholic Bishop Youhanna Golta: Egypt cannot become Islamist like Mali Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The future of Egypt? At the moment no one knows. Not even President Morsi. " On the second anniversary of the Revolution of 25 January 2013, while there are reports of new clashes in the streets b ...
• 24 January 2013
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Two purifiers will allow 1,800 people to have drinking water Kaolack (Agenzia Fides) - The campaign initiated in these past 12 months by the Catholic Spanish organization Manos Unidas La salud, derecho de todos: ¡Actua! is about to end, which has been busy around the world to try ...
• 24 January 2013
  AFRICA/SUDAN - "Stop the war in South Kordofan and Blue Nile" is what 350 African civil societies ask for Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Stop the war between the Sudanese army and SPLM-N (Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North) in South Kordofan and Blue Nile. This is the appeal launched by 350 African civil societies on the e ...
• 24 January 2013
  AFRICA/MALI - Bishops’ appeal for prayer and solidarity, who today will be received by the Head of State Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "For over a year our Country has been in a deep crisis. At the beginning of the new year, this crisis has entered a crucial phase," say the Bishops of Mali in a letter to the local Catholic commu ...