Africa

• 15 November 2011
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Links between the Boko Haram sect and Al Qaeda: "confirms our suspicions", says the Archbishop of Jos Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Nigerian Boko Haram sect has ties with the group Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). This is what Abdelkader Messahel, Deputy Foreign Minister of Algeria said, citing the existence of intellig ...
• 15 November 2011
  AFRICA/GHANA - "Use oil proceeds for the common good": appeal on behalf of the Bishops of Ghana Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "Good governance involves the judicious use of national resources," say the Bishops of Ghana who ask the oil proceeds to be used, recently discovered in the country, for the good of the whole popu ...
• 14 November 2011
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - What formation for priests? Bishops of Rwanda and Burundi confront each other Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "What formation do we need for priests in major Seminaries?". This is the title of the reflection of the Plenary Assembly of the Association of the Episcopal Conferences of Rwanda and Burundi ...
• 14 November 2011
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Strong tensions between North and South Sudan Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Tension rises between North and South Sudan, that continue to accuse each other of destabilization attempts. The Minister of Defense in Khartoum, Abdel-Rahim Mohamed Hussein, has accused the go ...
• 11 November 2011
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - "If we want to unite the Country we should start from the poor": a missionary on the re-election of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) - "Even the international media, wonders what credibility an election has in which only 37% of the voters voted", says to Fides Fr. Mauro Armanino, of the Society of African Missions (SAM), who l ...
• 11 November 2011
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - A new hospital pavilion in Yirol has been inaugurated Yirol (Agenzia Fides) – A new pavillion has recently been inaugurated in Yirol, one of the poorest areas of the newborn South Sudan, the OPD (Out Patient Department), the new 250 square meters wing with First Aid servi ...
• 11 November 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - "Important to re-establish a peaceful climate immediately": an appeal on behalf of Cardinal Monsengwo Pasinya against electoral violence Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We are daily witnesses to incidents that are astonishing on how frequent and repeated they are: they cause victims, people arm themselves with machetes and sometimes with guns, they destroy an ...
• 10 November 2011
  AFRICA/BENIN-Six thousand malnourished children admitted to hospital in Tanguiéta: Emergency in the country Tanguiéta (Agenzia Fides) - "The Department of Pediatrics at Fatebenefratelli Hospital in Tanguiéta, Benin, is literally bursting. In the past year, due to the worsening economic crisis that has hit the Country, the ch ...
• 10 November 2011
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Medical Equipment from Italy to a hospital in Puntland Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - Medical supplies sent by the Perigeo International People community Onlus has arrived in Somalia, as reported in a statement sent to Agenzia Fides. "Perigee is the first to have carried out an ...
• 10 November 2011
  AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE - "I am not afraid to continue to give my testimony", says a missionary to Fides who has been working in a "difficult" area in Abidjan Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "Security does not exist yet, but apparently the situation is calm", said Sister Rosaria to Fides, of the Sisters of the Holy Family, who works in the area of Abobo in Abidjan, among the most af ...
• 9 November 2011
  AFRICA/KENYA - A school for children of HIV/AID victims in Kibera slums Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - More than one million people live in Kibera, the slum communities of Nairobi, among them are 30,000 orphaned children due to the HIV/AID epidemic. The Jesuit Father Terry Charlton is the co-foun ...
• 9 November 2011
  AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE - "Forty Catholic buildings have been attacked in two and a half months", reports the spokesman of the Archdiocese of Abidjan, while robberies continue Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "In two and a half months, about 40 churches and religious men and women’s houses all over Abidjan have been attacked by armed bandits with the aim to steal" the complaint to Fides is by Fr. ...
• 9 November 2011
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Poor turnout for the ballot; the candidate of the opposition denounces an assassination attempt, the police denies Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) - Low turnout in the second round of the presidential elections in Liberia, where one of the two candidates, Winston Tubman, the rival of the outgoing President, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, has sent v ...
• 8 November 2011
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - "After this election there will be a fractured country": a missionary’s opinion Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) - "After this election there will be a fractured country, not united" says to Fides Fr. Mauro Armanino, of the Society of African Missions who lived in Liberia for several years (now works in Ni ...
• 8 November 2011
  AFRICA/MALAWI - A testimony of the Church’s growth in the Country: 50 years of the diocese of Mzuzu Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - The diocese of Mzuzu in Malawi celebrated on November 5 its Golden Jubilee in the Cathedral dedicated to St. Peter. According to a note sent to Fides, the Eucharistic celebration was presided b ...