Africa

• 1 March 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Calm in Kinshasa after an attempted attack on the Head of State's residence Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Congolese authorities have arrested about 30 people in the ranks of the security forces after two simultaneous attacks on Sunday, 27 February on the residence of President Joseph Kabila, in t ...
• 1 March 2011
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Card. Sarah in Burundi to inaugurate Benedict XVI School in Muyaga Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) – Card. Robert Sarah, President of the “Cor Unum” Pontifical Council, is in Burundi to inaugurate the “Benoît XVI” (Benedict XVI) School in Muyaga (Cankuzo) on Saturday, 5 March, on b ...
• 28 February 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Appeal by Bishop Martinelli for the Eritreans in Libya: “yesterday 2,000 came back to our church and buildings asking for help” Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - “I would like to make an appeal for the estimated 2,000 Eritreans who came into our church and buildings yesterday, asking for help and assistance,” Bishop Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Apo ...
• 26 February 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - “The people are not going to let the old regimes reappear under new guises,” says Fr Verdoscia Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - “The daily demonstrations in Tahrir Square have become a fixed event, above all to denounce attempts by the old regime to remain in power. Yesterday's protest was directed against the Prime Mini ...
• 25 February 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - “The situation in the centre of Tripoli is calm, but there is concern,” Apostolic Vicar tells Fides Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - “The situation in the centre of Tripoli is calm, but there is concern about what may happen at the end of prayer on Friday. The protest organised for today at this stage hasn't gone ahead”. ...
• 25 February 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - After the tension, AIFO projects resume for the disabled Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The crisis situation that affected several states in North Africa did not have repercussions on the structure and personnel of the Project of Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) of the Italian A ...
• 25 February 2011
  AFRICA/CÔTE-D'IVOIRE - The situation deteriorates, concern grows for displaced people Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) – The situation is deteriorating in Si aggrava la situazione in Côte d'Ivoire, where clashes are ongoing between supporters of Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara throughout districts in the ...
• 24 February 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - “The murderer of the Coptic Orthodox priest is perhaps linked to the tensions two years ago,” Bishop of Assiut tells Fides Assiut (Agenzia Fides) - “It seems that the issue goes back to two years ago, when a Coptic Orthodox faithful committed an act of sacrilege against Islam, provoking the anger of Muslims. This person then said that it w ...
• 24 February 2011
  AFRICA/MAURITANIA - The Bishop of Nouakchott asks for missionaries of the community of Guinea Bissau Bissau (Agenzia Fides) – Bishop Martin Albert Happe of Nouakchott in Mauritania, asked the Bishops of Guinea Bissau to send missionaries from the Guinean community. Mauritania is a country with an Islamic majority and ...
• 24 February 2011
  AFRICA/REPUBLIC OF CENTRAL AFRICA - Lessons under the trees for Ouande school students in Linguiri village Linguiri (Agenzia Fides) – Decades of political violence in the north of the Central African Republic have caused destruction on a vast scale and massive numbers of displaced persons. Even the education sector has been ...
• 23 February 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - “The centre of Tripoli is calm, clashes are on the outskirts and in the east of the Country,” the Apostolic Vicar tells Fides Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - “The situation is somewhat calm because in the morning because there are no particular movements. Clashes usually occur at night when you hear the echoes of gunfire from a distance,” Archbis ...
• 23 February 2011
  AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - Reported new clashes in Abidjan while waiting for indications from African mediators Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) – The tension seems to be rising in Côte d'Ivoire, meanwhile the mediation mission from the African Union is leaving the Country. According to local sources, yesterday, 22 February, there were ...
• 22 February 2011
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - The Bishops of Southern Africa concerned about the situation in Zimbabwe Harare (Agenzia Fides) – “We address a very particular plea to the political leaders of the SADC region (South African Development Community) at a critical time in the life of the Zimbabwean Nation,” write the Bish ...
• 22 February 2011
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - Fr Rybinski killed for a thousand Euro; police arrest the alleged murderer Tunis (Agenzia Fides) – Police authorities in Tunis arrested the alleged murderer of Fr Marek Rybinski, the Polish Salesian missionary killed on 18 February in Manouba  (see Fides 19/2/2011). They arrested Chokri Ben ...
• 22 February 2011
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Infant mortality reduced to 10% thanks to the work of San Gaspare Hospital in Itigi Rome (Agenzia Fides) – “San Gaspare” Hospital in Itigi, situated in one of the poorest zones in the region, offers assistance to people who live there but also to people from further away, without distinction for r ...