Africa

• 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 ...
• 27 January 2011
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - “The Church must make its voice heard in an increasingly materialistic society,” affirms the President of the SACBC Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - The Southern African Bishops lament the fact that the Church's voice is struggling to be heard in the general debate on issues such as sexual morality and the proper utilisation of wealth. ...
• 27 January 2011
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - The inequitable distribution of national wealth helps to provoke ethnic tensions Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - The increase in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) does not automatically translate into improved living conditions for the local people, says a note sent to Fides by the Jesuit Centre for Theological ...
• 26 January 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - “The journey towards democracy requires time. Cultural preparation is also needed,” Father Scattolin tells Fides Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - “The crisis involving all Arab Countries has various motives, among which economics weighs heavily, considering even just the unemployment which above all affects youth,” Fides was told by Fat ...
• 25 January 2011
  AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - Bishops condemn violence and call all to observe pacts Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - “We condemn the violent deaths carried out in the name of the dignity of the human person dear to God. It is also in the name of respect for human life that we oppose the use of force, violenc ...
• 25 January 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Presence of the Shabab in the east of DRC? A missionary calls for caution Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - “The presence of an Islamic group in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is plausible, but up until now we haven't heard any reports of their activities,” Fides was told by F ...