Africa

• 2 December 2011
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - The number of returnees from Yemen increases Hargeisa (Agenzia Fides) - The continuing unrest and xenophobia present in Yemen have increased the returns of refugees in Somalia. There are about 6000 of those who have returned back, crossing the Red Sea since the beg ...
• 2 December 2011
  AFRICA/BENIN - "The Post-Synodal Exhortation urges us to a greater commitment to evangelization in Africa", says Cardinal Pengo Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM), Cardinal Polycarp Pengo, Archbishop of Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania), has described the Apostolic Exhortation ...
• 1 December 2011
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE-Education and evangelization of children and young people Lungi (Agenzia Fides) - The Salesian community has been present in Sierra Leone for 25 years, and has always been committed to education and evangelization of children and young people in the African country. According t ...
• 1 December 2011
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Caritas operations in Somalia were not affected by the ban of the Shabab against foreign NGOs Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - "At the moment, no Caritas operation has been affected by the decision of the Shabab to close the activities of humanitarian organizations in different areas of Somalia controlled by them" ref ...
• 1 December 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - "In the long term disenchantment will prevail towards the political proposal of the Islamists," says a missionary from Cairo Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "This is the first data and not the final official data, but expresses a real tendency," says to Fides Fr. Luciano Verdoscia, a Comboni missionary who lives and works in Cairo, commenting on the f ...
• 1 December 2011
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - More than a million people need food aid Harare (Agenzia Fides) - Due to very scarse harvest, more than a million people in the Midlands Provinces are forced to survive eating fruit as a main meal in the evening, and are not able to pay school fees for their ch ...
• 30 November 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - "The elections were held, but in an almost generalized disorder," says a missionary Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The elections were held, but in an almost generalized disorder," says to Fides Fr. Loris Cattani, a Xaverian missionary, an attentive observer of the situation in the Democratic Republic of Co ...
• 30 November 2011
  AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE - Gbagbo handed over to the International Criminal Court: worrying statements in the newspapers close to him Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "In Abidjan so far there have not been demonstrations in favor of Gbagbo and the situation is calm, but the opposition newspapers, close to the deposed President, have strongly criticized the go ...
• 29 November 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Tense calm after the elections, waiting for the results Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is calm, but there is also tension awaiting the election results", said local Church sources to Fides from Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where ...
• 29 November 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - "Calm elections, but in some polling stations voting was carried out on ballots which were not stamped" local sources say Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "The elections are taking place in a serene atmosphere, with a high turnout", said local Church sources to Fides from Cairo, capital of Egypt, where the first round of voting to elect the lower ho ...
• 28 November 2011
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - A nun and a volunteer killed, another woman religious seriously injured during a robbery Kiremba (Agenzia Fides) - Mother Lukrecija Mamica, of Croatian origin, and Francesco Bazzani, an Italian volunteer, were killed during a robbery attempt, while a second religious, Italian, Sister Carla Brianza, was injur ...
• 26 November 2011
  AFRICA-Financial speculation and Africa Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The current international financial crisis is having strong repercussions even towards the poorest Countries of Africa. The international speculation in fact, after the mortgage crisis, bad housing ...
• 25 November 2011
  AFRICA/KENYA- Kenya blocks the strategic port of Kismayu, the Shabab respond with attacks Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - At least three people have died and thirty injured: this is the toll of a series of terrorist attacks carried out yesterday, November 24, in Garissa, in the North Eastern Province in Kenya. On ...
• 25 November 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - The eve of the elections is tense between an alleged coup attempt and accusations of fraud through "fictitious seats" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – In the upcoming presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a newspaper in Kinshasa denounces an alleged coup attempt, foiled by the local authorities in collaboration w ...
• 24 November 2011
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Agricultural Training Centre in Kasisi helps farmers to improve their living conditions Lusaka (Agenzia Fides ) - Located about 300 km northeast of the capital, Lusaka, the Kasisi Agricultural Training Centre (KATC), run by the Society of Jesus, has been concerned for decades to improving the living conditi ...