Africa

• 20 September 2011
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - A nutrition program for children of the diocese of Hosanna Hosanna (Agenzia Fides) - In the Horn of Africa, the situation continues to deteriorate and thousands of people continue to die of hunger every day. Among the organizations that continue to intervene is, "Manos Unidas" w ...
• 19 September 2011
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO- New ordinations in Burkina Faso, in the footsteps of St. Camillus Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - On 6 September in the scholasticate community of "San Camillo" in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, seventeen young postulants and pre-novices entered the novitiate, eight of the Camillian Vice P ...
• 19 September 2011
  AFRICA/GHANA - In her prophetic mission, the Church has a positive role to carry out in elections, for the good of all Accra (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of the Workshop on "The Role of the Church in supporting peaceful and credible elections in Africa", held in Accra, Ghana, from September 12 to 16 (see Fides 14/09/2011), organized by S ...
• 17 September 2011
  AFRICA/SOMALIA-Caritas continues to distribute food, tents and medicine, despite the difficulties Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - "Though al-Shabaab has left Mogadishu, there are still pockets of resistance in the city, and Somalia continues to be a difficult operating environment for local and international NGOs", said ...
• 17 September 2011
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA- Catholic radios are increasing: Radio Veritas also in Johannesburg Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - After waiting 11 years, the Catholic radio station Radio Veritas has received the license to broadcast. "The news has filled us with joy and we still receive congratulation messages", reads ...
• 16 September 2011
  AFRICA/SWAZILAND - Schools are closed for the orphans and the poor: the government does not pay fees Mbabane (Agenzia Fides) - The vast majority of primary and secondary schools in Swaziland have not been able to start their school activities as the government has failed to solve the problem of the additional fees provi ...
• 16 September 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "Libya has changed, there is an atmosphere of tranquility and peace", says Mgr.Martinelli from Tripoli Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "Libya has changed, there are other colors, there is even greater peace of mind" says His Exc. Mgr.Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli to Fides, Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli, who returned to the Libyan ...
• 15 September 2011
  AFRICA/KENYA - Strong solidarity towards the victims of the fire in Nairobi Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds of Kenyans in Nairobi are queuing up to donate blood for the victims of the pipeline explosion and fire which killed a hundred people and injured 118 people in the slums of Sinai, in Na ...
• 15 September 2011
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Cholera continues to spread, to hold it back a campaign on the use of drinking water and lavatories would be sufficient Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - Health officials in Burundi are trying to contain an epidemic of cholera which, since August, has killed 12 people and has infected more than 600. Although the epidemic is under control, in so ...
• 14 September 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Institutional meetings for Mgr. Martinelli before returning to Libya Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "I had the pleasure to meet Mgr. Dominique Mamberti, Secretary for Relations with the States, together with the Apostolic Nuncio to Libya, His Exc. Mgr. Tommaso Caputo", says His Exc. Mgr. Giovanni ...
• 14 September 2011
  AFRICA/GHANA - The Church must make a significant contribution to the peaceful development of the 20 forthcoming African elections Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "We must ensure that by December 2011, the Catholic Church can claim to have made a significant contribution to peace in Africa through interventions that have ensured the peaceful and fair develo ...
• 14 September 2011
  AFRICA/KENYA - Most African countries have serious difficulties in the health care of pregnant women Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Studies carried out by the Institute for African Development Policies (AFIDEP) in East, West and Southern Africa, showed that most countries have great difficulties for universal access to repro ...
• 14 September 2011
  AFRICA/KENYA - High risk of mental health problems for refugee children Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - About 18 million children around the world have been forced to flee their homes because of conflict, one third of these are refugees whose families have crossed international borders. To explain ...
• 13 September 2011
  AFRICA/SWAZILAND-Denied access to public information for "security reasons" Mbabane (Agenzia Fides) - Many public officials in Swaziland do not believe that access to information is a right for everyone but a privilege that can be withdrawn at any time. If it is diffult for adult citizens to get ...
• 13 September 2011
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "We call on the security apparatus so that they tell us who fuels the Boko Haram violence": the Bishops’ request Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Nigeria criticize the federal government for not having made progress in the fight against the Boko Haram sect, whose violent actions are spreading from the north to other parts of ...