Africa

• 25 August 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "There are only foreign nurses and volunteers left in the hospitals in Tripoli", say local sources of Fides Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "In the healthcare facilities that we contacted this morning, foreign workers, in particular Filipinos, are doing the whole job alone: recording, taking care and feeding patients, everything is ...
• 25 August 2011
  AFRICA - What does the future hold for Gaddafi’s Libyan investments in Africa? Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Gaddafi's Libya in recent years has been one of the biggest investors in sub-Saharan Africa, thanks to its currency reserves (100 billion dollars in 2009). According to an article in "Les Afriques" ...
• 24 August 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "The hours of the attack on Bab al Aziziya were terrible," say local sources of Fides Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "People are venturing timidly in the streets which are patrolled by the men of the rebellion. There is lack of food, and fuel", say local sources in Tripoli to Fides, where the combined forces o ...
• 24 August 2011
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Members of the South Sudan parliament call for immediate measures after the recent massacres in Jonglei State Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Members of the south Sudan parliament have agreed on a series of resolutions which call for the urgent deployment of military forces and police in the State of Jonglei, reconciliation process and ...
• 23 August 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Heavy fighting in Tripoli. The Franciscan monks barricaded in the convent Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "Currently there are 3 Franciscan friars barricaded in the convent in Tripoli. No one dares to walk in the street because people are shot on sight, even if it is not clear who shoots who. Of cou ...
• 23 August 2011
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Two religious women seriously injured in an assault due to street gangs were transported to Germany for treatment Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - On August 20, Catholic Relief Services in Bujumbura organized the emergency evacuation of two nuns belonging to the Congregation Bene-Umukama. The nuns, in serious condition, were transported ...
• 22 August 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "Fighting still continues", say local sources from Tripoli to Fides Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "Fighting and gun firing still continue. It is a disaster", say local sources from Tripoli to Fides, who have requested anonymity for security reasons. "We do not know how the situation is evol ...
• 22 August 2011
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Conclusion of the Burundians youth Forum in communion with the 26th World Youth Day Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - In communion with the young people in the world gathered around the Pope in Madrid to celebrate the 26th World Youth Day, the Episcopal Commission for the Apostolate of the Laity organized t ...
• 20 August 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "The rebels intend to celebrate the end of Ramadan in Tripoli," say sources of Fides Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - The situation is calm but we know that the rebel forces are located 50 km to the east and west of Tripoli " local sources from Tripoli tell Fides, who have requested anonymity for security reaso ...
• 20 August 2011
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - "Every 11 weeks, ten percent of the under-5 population in Somalia is dying" says the Situation Report" of Caritas Somalia Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - "Health facilities in Somalia are trying to cope with the mass influx of internally displaced persons flocking to urban areas to seek assistance", says the "Situation Report" of Caritas Somali ...
• 19 August 2011
  AFRICA/BENIN - The letters of the first missionaries (SAM) who arrived in Dahomey in 1861 Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The current April 21, which fell on the first Sunday after our arrival, a hundred people or more, between blacks and whites attended the first Mass that we publicly celebrated in the chapel of the ...
• 19 August 2011
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - The Bishops of Burundi express their concerns to the Head of State about the insecurity that plague some areas of the country Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Burundi expressed their appreciation for the good relations between State and Church to the head of State, but at the same time said they were concerned about the insecurity di ...
• 19 August 2011
  AFRICA/KENYA - Death of Father Tony Bellagamba, a Consolata missionary, postulator for the cause of beatification of the Servant of God, Cardinal Maurice Otunga Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Father Tony was a great missionary and a dedicated servant of the Catholic Church. May he rest in peace. He now makes his final journey to God our Father to meet the Servant of God Cardinal Ot ...
• 18 August 2011
  AFRICA/MALAWI - "You cannot suffocate civil society and democracy", warns the President of the Episcopal Conference Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - The police have intensified controls in the major cities in Malawi although the protest planned for yesterday, August 17 was postponed (see Fides 17/8/2011). Opposition parties have given the g ...
• 17 August 2011
  AFRICA/MALAWI - The national demonstration of protest planned for today has been called off Lilongwe (Fides Service) - The demonstrations planned for today, August 17, in Malawi have been called off. The organizers have announced that "demonstrations have been postponed and not canceled to allow the High Court ...