Africa

• 8 May 2012
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Radio Okapi, a voice in the service of peace and human rights Bukavu (Agenzia Fides) - In the African continent radio is often used as a tool of war. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, Radio Okapi goes against the tide by putting itself at the service of peace. Created by the Uni ...
• 8 May 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "One does not want to thoroughly fight Boko Haram" says a Nigerian Bishop Jos (Agenzia Fides) - "Nigeria does not want for the time being the end of the Boko Haram threat. The members of the security services have proven to know who are those behind this threat, but are not able to catch them. ...
• 8 May 2012
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Situation blocked, while the international community studies sanctions against coup plotters Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation remains blocked both at a domestic political and international level," says to Fides father David Sciocco, PIME missionary and director of Radio Sol Mansi, from Bissau. The Economi ...
• 7 May 2012
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - No one should die any more when giving birth: new public health project to reduce maternal and infant mortality Wolisso (Agenzia Fides) - A new public health project to reduce maternal and infant mortality in 4 African countries has just been inaugurated in Wolisso, in Ethiopia. Funded by the Italian Cooperation, and launched in J ...
• 7 May 2012
  AFRICA/KENYA - Emergency Refugee in the Mission of Camp Garba: more than 3 thousand people need everything Camp Garba (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation in refugee camps is dramatic, government aid is rather insufficient, everyone is afraid to go to the area, the essential is lacking, especially water, increasing the risk of di ...
• 4 May 2012
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Young missionary killed during a robbery at the mission of Liqueleva Liqueleva (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Valentim Eduardo Camale, of the Consolata Missionaries (IMC), was brutally killed on May 3, 2012 during a robbery at the mission of Liqueleva (Mozambique), which occurred at 8 pm. Accordin ...
• 3 May 2012
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - In three months 241,000 other displaced from North Kivu: the complaint of a missionary Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "In the first quarter of 2012, in North Kivu alone, displaced people increased by 241,000 units" this is the complaint made to Fides by Fr. Loris Cattani, a Xaverian missionary animator of "Pea ...
• 3 May 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - More than 30 people died in the attack at a livestock market in the north-east of Nigeria Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - At least 34 people died caused by a bomb in a cattle market which took place yesterday afternoon, May 2, in Potiskum, in the north-east of Nigeria. According to agency sources, the toll of the att ...
• 2 May 2012
  AFRICA/EGYPT - At least ten victims in the clashes in front of the Ministry of Defence in Cairo Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - At least ten people have died in the clashes in Cairo, in front of the Ministry of Defence, at dawn today. A group of armed men, nicknamed "Baltajiya", attacked a sit-in organized by Salafis demon ...
• 30 April 2012
  AFRICA/KENYA - A dispute regarding the ownership of church land or an attack on Christians: there are two hypotheses on the attack in Nairobi Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "The attack against the church in Nairobi could be related to a dispute about ownership of the land where a place of worship was built or be a new retaliation of the Shabaab for the Kenyan milit ...
• 30 April 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "The State must be more pro-active to counter Boko Haram which has set its sights on the Church" says the Archbishop of Jos Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "These attacks are a continuation of the state of insecurity in which we have long expressed our concern as Bishops" says to Fides His Exc. Mgr. Ignatius Ayau Kaigama, Archbishop of Jos and Presi ...
• 27 April 2012
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - "Justice is done, but those who helped Taylor to sell blood diamonds should also be condemned," says a missionary Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - "The greatest satisfaction is that a trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity involved a former Head of State and that he has been convicted. In this way, justice, albeit slowly, was ca ...
• 27 April 2012
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Still no reaction of the coup leaders to the ultimatum of ECOWAS Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - In Bissau, there are still no reactions to the ultimatum launched yesterday by the ECOWAS to the military junta that seized power in Guinea Bissau with the coup on April 12. "We do not know if th ...
• 26 April 2012
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Hypothesis of an ECOWAS military dispatch in Bissau, while civil servants do not receive their salary Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - The Community of West African States (ECOWAS) are thinking of sending a military force of 600 soldiers in Guinea Bissau. This is what has been circulating on the eve of the Summit of the Heads of ...
• 26 April 2012
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Khartoum decrees war economy measures, China mediates to avoid a major conflict Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The Sudanese government has launched austerity measures that are intended to finance a major war with South Sudan. Khartoum authorities have ordered the Civil Administration to reduce the consu ...