Africa

• 5 February 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - “I have seen the best of Egypt,” Fr Luciano Verdoscia who saw the demonstrators in Tahrir Square tells Fide Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - “The situation has greatly improved,” Father Luciano Verdoscia told Fides, the Comboni missionary who has worked for years in Cairo. “Yesterday, 4 February, the army took significant steps, ...
• 4 February 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - “The opposition could talk with Suleiman if they want to assume power in the meantime,” missionary tells Fides Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - “The Country is expecting demonstrations after Friday's prayers,” Fides was told by Father Luciano Verdoscia, Comboni missionary who has worked for years in Cairo among children who make a liv ...
• 4 February 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - “At the heart of the revolt is also the divide between the consumerism diffused by the media and the poverty of the people,” Bishop of Luxor tells Fides Luxor (Agenzia Fides) - “The situation is calm because everyone in Luxor, Christians and Muslims, work with tourism,” Fides was told by Bishop Joannes Zakaria of the Coptic Catholics in Luxor, Egypt. “Everyone has ...
• 3 February 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - “The climate has changed: foreigners are urged not to leave their homes. There are many Mubarak supporters”. Missionary in Cairo speaks to Fides Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - “The climate has changed following the clashes yesterday, 2 February, among demonstrators in Tahrir Square and the supporters of Mubarak,” Fides was told by Father Luciano Verdoscia, a Comboni ...
• 3 February 2011
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - The North African Bishops recognise in recent events “a vindication of freedom and dignity” Algeria (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of North Africa “recognize in events that are shaking Tunisia and Egypt... a claim to freedom and dignity, in particular by the younger generations, resulting in the desire that al ...
• 2 February 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - A missionary among the protesters in Cairo tells Fides: “I have not experienced a climate of fanaticism, but one of joy and celebration” Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - “Internet connections have just been restabilised,” Father Luciano Verdoscia reports to Fides. Fr Verdoscia is a Comboni missionary who has worked for years in Cairo, in contact with the child ...
• 2 February 2011
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Rising number of child landmine victims in Somaliland Hargeisa (Agenzia Fides) – Recently Somalia's self-declared independent region of Somaliland has experienced an increase in landmine and unexploded ordnance (UXO). In a note from Ahmed Ali Maah, director of the Somalil ...
• 1 February 2011
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - “The elections are valid, even if biased by irregularities” affirms the Commission for Justice and Peace Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - “The elections are valid, even if biased by irregularities” affirms the Commission for Justice and Peace of the Episcopal Conference of Central Africa, defining the presidential and legislati ...
• 1 February 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - “Demonstrators intend to head towards the presidential palace,” local source tells Fides Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - “Tahrir Square is full. The crowd is swarming and you can sense a certain tension, also because if anything happens that forces people to flee, many people risk dying of being crushed,” the mi ...
• 31 January 2011
  AFRICA/NAMIBIA - Alert in the region of Caprivi for the breaking banks of the Zambezi River Widhoec (Agenzia Fides) – More than 1,000 people have been “relocated permanently” from the 32 villages at risk of flooding in Caprivi, the most northerly province of Namibia, preparing to meet a Zambezi River swol ...
• 31 January 2011
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - A centre to young Christians and Muslims in the State of Plateau to not take the path of violence to resolve problems Jos (Agenzia Fides) – A formation centre for young Christians and Muslims was officially opened on 27 January in Hai-Hong, Bokkos, 70 km from Jos, capital of the Nigerian State of Plateau, where in recent times various ...
• 31 January 2011
  AFRICA/SUDAN - 99% of voters in favour of independence of Southern Sudan while in Khartoum the students are in revolt Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Southern Sudan will become an independent State. The results from the referendum held from 9-15 January were published yesterday, 30 January. The announcement was made from Juba, capital of the ...
• 29 January 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - “The police have disappeared from the centre of Cairo while demonstrators march again”: a missionary to Fides Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - “The police have retreated from the centre of Cairo. The army only protects the buildings of importance such as the Parliament. There is an atmosphere that has never been seen before,” Fides w ...
• 28 January 2011
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - South African Bishops pray for Mandela “Father of the Nation” Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - “On behalf of the Bishops, Clergy, Religious Sisters and Brothers as well as the Catholic Church in Southern Africa, the Catholic Bishops of Southern Africa extend to President Mandela an ...
• 28 January 2011
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Obstacles to evangelisation and human promotion in Africa: FIAC meeting concludes Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - Poverty and social injustice, bad governance, the persistent insecurity, the bad start to democracy in many Countries, the corruption, the urgency of reconciliation and the integral formation of t ...