Africa

• 19 January 2011
  AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - Failed mediation by Kenyan Premier, new attempts at a peaceful conclusion to the crisis Abidjan (Agenzia Fides)- “Time is up”, said the Kenyan Prime Minister, Raila Odinga, mediator for the African Union in the crisis in Côte d'Ivoire, in an announcement on 19 January about the failed attempt to come t ...
• 19 January 2011
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - IV continental FIAC Meeting for Western Africa opens today Dakar (Agenzia Fides) – The West African Continental Meeting of the International Forum for Catholic Action (FIAC) opens today, on the theme: “Life, bread, peace and liberty. For a prosperous, peaceful, reconciled Af ...
• 18 January 2011
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Floods: serious damages to farms and to housing in northern zones Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – Serious damage to farms has been caused by heavy summer rains affecting South Africa and which have destroyed numerous houses. The province most seriously affected is the Northern Cape, ...
• 18 January 2011
  AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - The international community continues to mediate, but also prepares for military intervention in the end Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) – Between attempts at dialogue and signs of a possible military intervention, the international community continues to add pressure to relieve Côte d'Ivoire from the political-institutional cri ...
• 18 January 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - “Sister Jeanne Yegmane was the victim of a street ambush,” the Bishop of Doruma-Dungu tells Fides Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- “Sister Jeanne Yegmane was killed in a street ambush. It does not appear to be a targeted killing,” Bishop Richard Domba Madiy of Doruma-Dungu, in north-east Democratic Republic of Congo, te ...
• 17 January 2011
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - The crisis of the “Tunisian model” and the world of the Middle East Tunisi (Agenzia Fides) – The situation in Tunisia remains tense and uncertain, especially in the capital city of Tunisi, after President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali left the country in the wake of a popular protest which b ...
• 17 January 2011
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “The referendum was held peacefully but we fear a food shortage,” Bishop of Tombura-Yambio tells Fides Khartoum (Agenzia Fides)- “Based on initial counts of the votes, more than 80% of the voters of West Equatoria have voted for independence” Bishop Edward Hiiboro Kussaka of Tombura-Yambio tells Fides, from southern S ...
• 15 January 2011
  AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - International pressure is growing against Gbagbo Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) – Pressure is growing for the outgoing President of Côte d'Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo, to recognise the victory of Alassane Ouattara in the vote at the end of November and leave power. The European ...
• 14 January 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Students in revolt in Kinshasa Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - “The situation is not yet under control because it is still marked by clashes,” say sources of Fides from the local Church in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republis of Congo, where a ...
• 11 January 2011
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “We are here to express our solidarity with the Church in the south and in the north of Sudan” said a spokesperson of the SACBC Juba (Agenzia Fides) - “Things are going incredibly well. Most of the population has voted and the situation is very calm,” Father Chris Townsend tells Fides, a spokesperson for the SACBC, located in Juba (south Suda ...
• 10 January 2011
  AFRICA/SUDAN - "Vote calm, people participate en-masse,” says the Bishop of Tombura-Yambio Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - “The people are voting en-masse and so far the voting procedures have taken place in calm,” Bishop Edward Hiiboro Kussala of Tombura-Yambio told Fides, in southern Sudan, where yesterday, 9 ...
• 10 January 2011
  Africa/Kenya - More than 150,000 people at risk of starvation in the north of Kenya Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- More than 150,000 people are at risk of starvation in the north of Kenya. According to the Kenyan daily, “The Nation”, “children under five years of age, pregnant women and elderly people a ...
• 8 January 2011
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The independence of southern Sudan is at risk due to the tragedy of millions of displaced people from the north, denounces Sudanese Bishop Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - “Following the euphoria of independence now they must deal with the harsh reality of the thousands and thousands of southern Sudanese who have returned to the south and who have nothing. Ther ...
• 8 January 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO - A new law to protect the rights of indigenous peoples Brazzaville (Agenzia Fides) – The Republic of Congo is destined to become the first country in Africa to provide special legal protection to its indigenous peoples. In a declaration by Jean Ganga, president of the Asso ...
• 4 January 2011
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - “They want to destabilize Nigeria, with attacks on Christian places of symbolic importance,” says the Archbishop of Jos Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - “It was an attack on places symbolic of Christianity. Unlike other incidents in the past that had other causes, the attacks at Christmas have a clear religious motivation,” Fides was told by A ...