Africa

• 24 January 2013
  AFRICA/MALI - Armed conflict exacerbates the already precarious country's education system Barcelona (Agenzia Fides) - The armed conflicts underway in Mali continue to aggravate the already precarious education of children, and to cope with this emergency, the Spanish NGO Intervida is committed to the educatio ...
• 23 January 2013
  AFRICA/MALI - Japan closes its embassy in Bamako, but there are no specific threats against foreigners Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The closure of the Embassy of Japan in Bamako is a preventive measure, taking account of the terrorist attack in Algeria during which several Japanese citizens lost their lives, but to our knowl ...
• 22 January 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - New Bishops' appeal: "release the three Assumptionist Fathers kidnapped in October" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The three Assumptionist Fathers who were kidnapped last October are still in the hands of their kidnappers. The National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO) and, in particular, the Diocese o ...
• 22 January 2013
  AFRICA/ERITREA - Uncertain situation in Asmara after the revolt of a group of soldiers Asmara (Agenzia Fides) - Calm seems to have returned in Asmara, capital of Eritrea, where last night a group of soldiers occupied the Ministry of Information. From the limited information that come from the Country, the ...
• 21 January 2013
  AFRICA/MALI - The Bishops visit the wounded in the fighting; the Bishops' Conference gather up Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The Bishops visited the wounded in the fighting in the hospitals in Bamako to offer moral and spiritual comfort" says to Fides Agency Don Edmond Dembele, Secretary General of the Episcopal Confe ...
• 18 January 2013
  AFRICA/MALI - The army announces the reconquest of Konna: the first African soldiers are arriving Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - The Malian army announced today, January 18, to have taken full control of Konna, the city in the center of Mali, whose capture by the jihadist rebels provoked the intervention of the French mili ...
• 18 January 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak is the new Patriarch of Alexandria of the Catholic Copts Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Coptic Catholic Church has a new Patriarch: Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak, 57, Bishop of the Eparchy of Minya. The Synod of the Coptic Catholic Bishops, who gathered in Cairo from January 12 to 16, rec ...
• 18 January 2013
  AFRICA/MALI - "Humanitarian corridors to be opened to help civilians": Archbishop of Bamako’s appeal Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - It is necessary to immediately open humanitarian corridors to allow aid to be sent to the population without food and medicines. This is the appeal launched by Archbishop Jean Zerbo, Archbishop o ...
• 17 January 2013
  AFRICA/NIGER - Diseases, floods, damage to agriculture: heavy rains continue to hit the country Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - As a result of the rising water levels recorded during the annual floods, expected until February, about 800 families from Niger have been transferred from areas along the river Niger. The floodi ...
• 17 January 2013
  AFRICA/MALI - First signs of liberation for the cities of the north, but fear still remains Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The people of the great urban centers of northern Mali abandoned by Islamist groups, are showing the first signs of liberation from the Islamist domination: women take off their veil, young peop ...
• 17 January 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Doubts about the unilateral ceasefire announced by the M23 Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - On January 8, the M23 (the armed movement protagonist of a war in North Kivu, east of the Democratic Republic of Congo-DRC) announced a unilateral ceasefire in the course of negotiations with t ...
• 17 January 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - "Coptic" quota? No thank you. The proposal to ensure seats "reserved" to the Christians in the upcoming elections does not find consensus Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The proposal to reserve seats to the Copts in the lists that will compete in the upcoming parliamentary elections give rise to negative reactions in the Christian communities in Egypt. The idea wa ...
• 16 January 2013
  AFRICA/MALAWI - There is lack of food, water and health care for the people affected by the floods Zomba (Agenzia Fides) – In Mwambo, in the district of Zomba, in Malawi, 641 families have been left homeless and their corn plantations have been destroyed caused by the overflowing of the river Phalombe, due to the he ...
• 16 January 2013
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Food-for-work: plan to keep the forests and help the people Amboasary (Agenzia Fides) - One of the best ecosystems in the world is the one that includes the dry forests of southern Madagascar. Unfortunately, these are increasingly at risk as the inhabitants of the region, aggrava ...
• 15 January 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT- Children working in limestone caves Al-Minya (Agenzia Fides) - The region of al-Minya lies along the shores of the East and West Nile in Egypt. This is a region where there is no work and most of the population lives in poverty. Almost everyone, including ...