Africa

• 15 January 2013
  AFRICA/MAURITANIA - Worrying increase in malnutrition among refugees in Mali Nouakchott (Agenzia Fides) - In Mbera refugee camp in eastern Mauritania, there are 55,000 refugees from Mali, among these 1 in 5 children are malnourished and 4.6% suffer from severe malnutrition. According to the lates ...
• 14 January 2013
  AFRICA/MALI - The local population is comforted by the French military intervention; the Church in aid of the displaced Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The Malian population is greatly comforted by the French military intervention. After jihadist groups had taken the city of Konna on January 10, Malians had in fact held their breath, fearing th ...
• 14 January 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Seats "reserved" for the Copts in the next election? Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – In the next parliamentary elections a Party of Coptic inspiration could be part of the list, with the declared function to represent the demands of the sectors of society - women, urban youth gr ...
• 14 January 2013
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - "After the Tunisian revolution irreversible changes in the Arab world," said Mgr. Lahham Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - "In these two years since the so-called 'Jasmine Revolution', two irreversible developments have taken place in Tunisia, and more generally in the Arab world," says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. M ...
• 11 January 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Rebels accept "in principle" a cease-fire; the Bishops denounce the violence on both sides Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The rebels of the coalition Seleka have accepted the agreement in principle to a cease-fire for a week. The announcement was made in Libreville, capital of Gabon, which holds the peace talks betw ...
• 11 January 2013
  AFRICA/MALI - Battles between Malian army and rebels rage Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - The city of Konna, 70 km from Mopti (central Mali), is at the center of fighting between the Malian army and Islamist rebels who control the north of the country. "According to the latest informa ...
• 11 January 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The ecumenical sensitivity of Patriarch Tawadros approaches the creation of a Council of Christian Churches Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The new climate of openness and collaboration that has been recorded in recent months among the various Christian communities in Egypt could soon lead to the establishment of a Council of Christia ...
• 10 January 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - The tragedy of child soldiers continues, forced to kill and sexually exploited Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - About 2,500 children have been recruited for armed conflict both by the Séléka Rebel Alliance troups, which already control 75% of the country, and forces of the Government of the Central Afric ...
• 10 January 2013
  AFRICA/KENYA - New massacres in the Tana Delta, concern for the hundreds of thousands of weapons in circulation Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - At least 11 people were killed in the village of Kibusu, in the region of the Tana Delta, in Kenya, in an attack carried out at dawn today, January 10. Among the victims were five children. The ...
• 10 January 2013
  AFRICA/MALI-Clashes between army and rebels, while in the capital protests continue Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "We know that there were clashes between last night and the early morning of today, around the area of Konna, between the army and rebels, but the authorities havenot given precise information ab ...
• 9 January 2013
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - The priest of Rwandan origins expelled in August returns to Zambia Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Viateur Banyangandora, the priest of Rwandan origins expelled by the Zambian authorities in early August (see Fides 07/08/2012), returned to the country on January 7. Fr. Banyangandora was we ...
• 9 January 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - WFP condemns the looting of its food warehouses Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds of tons of food aid have disappeared from the warehouses of the World Food Programme (WFP) in at least three locations in the Central African Republic conquered by the rebel coalition Se ...
• 8 January 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - A journalist of a community radio station in Bambari has been killed Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - A journalist of the community radio ''Bé-Oko'' in Bambari (in the center of the Central African Republic), Elisabeth Blanche Olofio, was killed by the rebels of the Seleka coalition during the o ...
• 8 January 2013
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Orthodox Christmas celebrated in the small community of Adaba Robe (Agenzia Fides) – The Christmas celebrations for the Orthodox Churches have just concluded. From the mission of Robe, Ethiopia, Father Angelo Antolini, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Ethi ...
• 8 January 2013
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - Father Marek Rybinski's murderer convicted Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - The judicial authorities in Tunisia have sentenced to life imprisonment Chokri Ben Mustapha Bel Sadek Mesteri, carpenter, 45, accused of murdering the Polish Salesian, Fr. Marek Rybinski. The prie ...