Africa

• 15 April 2011
  AFRICA - About 2.64 million fetuses die after the twenty-eighth week of pregnancy, especially in poorer countries Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The annual number of stillbirths in the whole world is twice the number of people who die from diseases associated with HIV. According to the weekly science magazine The Lancet, about 2.64 mil ...
• 15 April 2011
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Tension is high in Ouagadougou for the military revolt Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) – Uncertain situation in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso, where a military revolt forced President Blaise Campaoré to take refuge in his native village (Ziniaré, about thirty mile ...
• 14 April 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "Providing weapons just means extending the war, " says Bishop Martinelli Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "The risk of providing weapons to rebels in Benghazi is a way of not ending the war, or rather a way to lenghthening it, " says Archbishop Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Vicar Apostolic of Trip ...
• 14 April 2011
  AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - "People need help, we must intervene: 25 000 refugees in the parish of the Salesians in Duékoué Duékoué (Agenzia Fides) - The arrest of Laurent Gbagbo, the outgoing president of the Ivory Coast who does not recognize the election of his successor, Alassane Ouattara, does not put an end to the tragic situation tha ...
• 14 April 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Serious outbreak of measles since the beginning of the year 6,524 cases and 33 deaths have been recorded Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A cholera outbreak in Katanga province continues to exacerbate another outbreak of measles which in the last six months has affected the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). "Children infected w ...
• 14 April 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Egypt supports the mediation of the Coptic Pope Shenouda III with Ethiopia over the Nile waters Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Shenouda III, spiritual leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church could play a role as mediator in the dispute that opposes Egypt and Ethiopia for the redistribution of the Nile waters. According ...
• 13 April 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - The Christian Churches in Tripoli ask for “an immediate and unconditional ceasefire by all parties involved” Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - “The violence and bloodbath must stop immediately, as war is not the solution to the current problems,” affirms a statement by the Ecumenical Council of Christian Churches in Tripoli (Libya) ...
• 13 April 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - “The fundamentalist message can not take root among the youth of the revolution,” says Fr Verdoscia from Cairo Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - “The arrest of Mubarak was probably also determined by the former President's speech on television. The promoters of the revolt in Tahrir Square criticized Mubarak for defending himself, pointin ...
• 12 April 2011
  AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - Captured Gbagbo remains incognito among armed civilians and the invisible commando Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - “In some quarters of Abidjan firearms could still be heard throughout the night and also this morning,” says Jean Djoman, Director of Development and Human Promotion for Caritas in Abidjan, ...
• 12 April 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - “We should listen to youth to reach peace,” says Bishop Martinelli of Tripoli Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - “We will see how it will all end. Unfortunately we can not see anything of substance yet,” says Bishop Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli, following the transitional n ...
• 12 April 2011
  AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - Despite hundreds of deaths and more than a million refugees the missionaries will not leave the Country Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – To this point the conflict in Côte d'Ivoire has caused irreparable damage both to the economy and to the Country and the people, as well as causing hundreds of deaths and more than a million r ...
• 11 April 2011
  AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - Fighting continues in Abidjan; humanitarian situation worsens; Archbishop calls for peace prayers Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - “Bombing around the presidential residence has gone on throughout the night. Here at the Nunciature (200 metres from Gbagbo's residence), the shots were felt very strongly,” Archbishop Ambro ...
• 11 April 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli, “a little more optimistic that the crisis can be resolved peacefully”, says statement issued by Christian Churches Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - “I am a little more optimistic that the crisis can be resolved peacefully. The ceasefire is the first step, then the two parties have to find some way of communicating to arrive at agreement o ...
• 9 April 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - “Italy should support Turkish diplomatic initiative,” says Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli Tripoli (Agenzia Fides)- “Italy should support the Turkish diplomatic initiative,” says Bishop Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli, to Fides. “This is because the Libyans have officially state ...
• 9 April 2011
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - “The Nigerians want peace and good governance. Anyone bombing wants to destabilise the Country,” says the Archbishop of Jos Jos (Agenzia Fides) - “The attacks and the violence are being carried out by people who want to impede the democracy that Nigerians aspire to. Nigerians are tired of the violence and bad governing. The elections are th ...