Africa

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  19 June 2023
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The new "last mile" of Doctors with Africa Cuamm in favor of the population of Bossongoa Bossongoa (Agenzia Fides) - A new 'last mile' where some 180,000 people live, a single 130-bed hospital with two general practitioners, without specialists, who do a little of everything. This is Bossongoa, a remote and ...
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  17 June 2023
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - "Antiquum ministerium" and the dream come true of the Uncanha Catechetical Center, the "citadel of catechists" by Stefano Lodigiani Tete (Agenzia Fides) - "In 2017, when I arrived in Uncanha, the dream of a formation center for catechists began to take shape, a 'Catequistado', which would include the whole family, and not just ...
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  16 June 2023
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Governor of West Darfur State assassinated after asking for international protection Geneima (Agenzia Fides) - The governor of West Darfur state and head of the Sudanese Alliance, Khamis Abdallah Abkar, was killed on Wednesday, 14 June, two months after the start of the armed conflict between the Sudanes ...
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  15 June 2023
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - People flee Las Anod: "We have nothing to eat, the only thing we get is water" Las Anod (Agenzia Fides) - The clashes between the security forces of separatist Somaliland, who have been occupying the city of Las Anod in the north of the country since 2007, and the militias of the local clans, who a ...
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  14 June 2023
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The war in Sudan worsens: ethnic violence reported in Darfur Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – The situation in West Darfur, the western region of Sudan which, together with the capital Khartoum (see Fides, 13/6/2023), the epicenter of the fighting between soldiers of the Sudanese reg ...
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  13 June 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Cardinal Tagle to the Church of Goma: you are in the heart of Pope Francis Goma (Agenzia Fides) - Even in the martyred region of North Kivu, the disciples of Jesus are called above all to offer to all the "wonderful flavor" and light of Jesus and his gospel. Flavor and light that "do not come f ...
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  13 June 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - In the north of the country: Another Catholic priest kidnapped and released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic priest Jeremiah Yakubu was the victim of another kidnapping in Nigeria, late on Sunday evening, June 11, by gunmen from the rectory of the Holy Trinity Parish in Karku, Kauru Local G ...
• 13 June 2023
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Resignation of Bishop of Miarinarivo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 12, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Miarinarivo, Madagascar, presented by the Bishop Jean Claude Randrianarisoa. (EG) (Agenzia Fid ...
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  13 June 2023
  AFRICA/SUDAN - RSF militiamen are consolidating positions on the Central African border Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - As fighting continues in the Sudanese capital Khartoum (see Fides, 12/6/2023), in Darfur, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militiamen, led by Mohamad Hamdan Dagalo (known as "Hemedti") consolidat ...
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  12 June 2023
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Violent fighting in Khartoum after the end of the 24-hour truce Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Fighting in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, resumed immediately after the end of the 24-hour ceasefire at 6 am on Sunday morning, June 11th. Clashes between Sudanese Army soldiers (SAF) and th ...
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  12 June 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "We are blessed because Jesus gives us his flesh". Cardinal Tagle celebrates the closing Mass of the National Eucharistic Congress Lumumbashi (Agenzia Fides) - Christ himself "promised to dwell in those who will receive his body and his blood: a promise and gift of his presence". And "his presence is active and dynamic. His presence makes us a new c ...
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  10 June 2023
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Only God can help us. The testimony of a Salesian missionary from the tormented Sudanese capital Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "Only God's intervention can help the people of this country to overcome the current situation". Faced with the conflict that broke out in Sudan on April 15, and after the announcements of agre ...
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  10 June 2023
  AFRICA/CHAD - Why the conflict in Sudan risks destabilizing Chad as well N'Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - The clash between military factions in Sudan has serious humanitarian consequences for neighboring States such as Chad and the Central African Republic, countries which have so far hosted 100, ...
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  9 June 2023
  AFRICA/EGYPT - For health reasons: Patriarch Tawadros suspends public audiences Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Like Pope Francis, the Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II has had to suspend public audiences and pastoral activities in recent days for health reasons. In the case of Pope Tawadros, the health ...
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  9 June 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Priest killed in a road ambush in southern Nigeria Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - This time the perpetrators did not limit themselves to kidnapping a priest, but committed a murder. The victim, Father Charles Onomhoale Igechi, a priest of the Archdiocese of Benin City in southe ...