Africa

• 21 December 2011
  AFRICA/KENYA - A shelter for safe deliveries with the highest mortality rate across the country Garissa (Agenzia Fides) - The Garissa Maternal Shelter in the northeast Province of Kenya is the only existing maternal and child care health centre in an area that records the highest mortality rates across the country. ...
• 21 December 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - President Kabila swears in for another term, but the controversy does not stop Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "In Kinshasa, the situation is calm, but we are all waiting for 23 December, when the opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi, will appoint himself Head of State" local Church sources told Fides f ...
• 20 December 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Demonstrators in Tahrir Square have lost popular support Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "Fighting continues. This morning we heard at least 500 rounds of firearms and the people say that there are snipers on the roofs of Tahrir Square" this is what Fides was told by a local source (f ...
• 20 December 2011
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - New explosions in the north; for the Bishops, "either one learns to live in peace or one perishes in violence" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – Still explosions in northern Nigeria attributed to the Boko Haram sect. On 18 December in Malikali, on the outskirts of Kaduna, capital of the State, at least one person died and several others ...
• 20 December 2011
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Typhoid, dysentery, cholera and malnutrition are the causes of infrastructure insecurity Harare (Agenzia Fides) - The diseases caused by contaminated water, such as typhoid, dysentery and diarrhea, are creating great concern in Zimbabwe. A possible revival of the cholera epidemic that in 2008 - 2009 killed m ...
• 19 December 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR- December 23 crucial day for the DRC? Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Military presence in Kinshasa is massive. So far there have not been major clashes, but the tension is evident", said local Church sources to Fides contacted in the capital of the Democratic R ...
• 19 December 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - "A part of the population justifies the attitude of the police in the name of the return to order" notes a missionary Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "A part of the area affected by the conflict, life proceeds normally in Cairo," says to Fides Fr. Luciano Verdoscia, a Comboni missionary who works in Cairo, where clashes between demonstrators an ...
• 17 December 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - More than 125,000 irregular armed fighters, divided into hundreds of militias: the complaint of a report Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - In Libya, there are 125,000 irregular armed fighters. According to a report by the International Crisis Group (ICG), which warns about the presence of hundreds of militias that control chunks o ...
• 16 December 2011
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - The Diocese of Bafatá celebrates ten years: "the virtue of hope has always illuminated our diocesan path " Bafatá (Agenzia Fides) – Mgr. Carlos Pedro Zilli, Bishop of Bafatá, issued a pastoral Letter addressed to the entire diocese that this year 2011 celebrates its tenth anniversary, having been founded by Blessed John P ...
• 16 December 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - "Publishing the minutes of the polling station to resolve disputes over the elections" a proposal from a missionary Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "There are data that vary from one source to another. There are seats that have not been accounted for. The only way out of this situation is to publish the minutes of the individual seats", sa ...
• 16 December 2011
  AFRICA/HAITI - Christmas also for the poor in Haiti, victims of the earthquake Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - At last, even the many poor, victims of the severe earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010, will celebrate Christmas through a program of government activity extended throughout the national ...
• 16 December 2011
  AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE - Victory of the President’s coalition Abidjan (Agenzia Fides ) - The coalition led by President Alassane Ouattara obtained 80% of the vote in the parliamentary elections in Côte d'Ivoire held on 11 December, according to official figures released today, Dec ...
• 15 December 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Clashes and tension awaiting the final announcement of the presidential vote outcome Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Kinshasa continues to be heavily guarded by the police, while waiting anxiously for the final announcement of the presidential election results by the Supreme Court before December 20, the dea ...
• 15 December 2011
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - The plague of Casamance and cocaine trafficking Dakar (Agenzia Fides) – Tension increases in Casamance, region of Senegal wedged between Gambia and Guinea Bissau, a "low intensity" theater of war since 1982 for the presence of an independence movement. On 13 Decembe ...
• 14 December 2011
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishop of Maiduguri does not confirm the tragedy attributed to the military, after yesterday’s failed attack Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "There is nothing official and I am not able to confirm that the military fired indiscriminately on the crowd", says to Fides His Exc. Mgr. Oliver Dashe Doeme, Bishop of Maiduguri, capital of the ...