Africa

• 6 September 2010
  AFRICA/BOTSWANA - Providing ARVs to refugees Gaborone (Agenzia Fides) - Botswana was the first country in southern Africa to roll out an antiretroviral (ARV) treatment programme, which now has almost universal coverage, but is among the last to include its relative ...
• 4 September 2010
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Missionaries and concerns for Zimbabwean refugees in South Africa Cape Town (Agenzia Fides) – "The Zimbabwean refugees with whom I have spoken are very concerned about the regularization measure decided on by the South African government, as the situation in their country has not cha ...
• 4 September 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Discrimination in aid: incidents and testimonies Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – There have been a long list of cases reported to Fides on discrimination against Christians, religious minorities, Dalits, the poorest of the poor in humanitarian aid distribution. "The gene ...
• 3 September 2010
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Calm follows 2-day clashes in Maputo; Archbishop Chimoio encourages faithful to pray for the nation Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is slowly returning to calm, although there is less traffic on the streets of the capital because of the transport strike," Fides has been told by a local Church source in Maputo, ...
• 2 September 2010
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Local Church source in Maputo tells Fides about the “spontaneous uprising that took everyone by surprise” Maputo (Agenzia Fides) – "This has been a spontaneous uprising that took everyone by surprise - the government, the opposition parties, and the trade unions. The protest seems to have evolved 'from the bottom up'. SMS ...
• 2 September 2010
  AFRICA/KENYA - Catholic NGO working against trafficking in human persons Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – Between 600,000 and 2,000,000 people each year are victims of human trafficking. Among the countries affected by this crime in Africa is Kenya. According to the Trafficking in Persons Report ( ...
• 2 September 2010
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Raising a child with disabilities, without suitable aid or facilities Dakar (Agenzia Fides) – In Senegal many women refuse to take mentally disabled children on public transport; families hide children with mental or neurological disorders, and some parents disown them outright. Accordin ...
• 1 September 2010
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Bishops: No to the law on the media, as it “violates the spirit of openness and accountability” of government officials Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of South Africa have “serious concerns about the wisdom and the constitutionality of the Protection of Information Bill currently before Parliament, as well as about the nee ...
• 1 September 2010
  AFRICA/KENYA - Nairobi seminar on establishing a Catholic information agency for all Africa Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - “Today communications is taken as the first aeropagus of the modern world, which is unifying humanity and turning it into a global village. Thus, we as Catholic Communicators we expect and wan ...
• 31 August 2010
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Local Fides sources tell of a new rebel group in Central Africa Bangui (Agenzia Fides) – A newly formed rebel group has appeared in the southeastern Central African Republic, according to a report in the international press. Bishop Juan Jose Aguirre Muños, Bishop of Bangassou, sen ...
• 31 August 2010
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Sharp increase in child malnutrition in north Kousseri (Agenzia Fides) – In northern Cameroon, as in much of Africa’s western Sahel band, there is an unusually high child malnutrition rate. Six children died from malnutrition in Kousseri hospital, northern Camer ...
• 30 August 2010
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Formation course for 20 new missionaries concludes; first Guinean priest ordained for the PIME Bissau (Agenzia Fides) – The sessions of the Missionary Training Course begun August 2 ended on August 27 with a Mass presided by two bishops of Guinea Bissau. According to information sent to Fides from the Curia of B ...
• 30 August 2010
  AFRICA/NIGER - Nearly 200,000 refugees following severe flooding Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Further heavy rains in Niger have caused the number of people displaced by flooding to soar from 111,000 last week to 198,740 this week, says the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Af ...
• 30 August 2010
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - “A pastor who knew how to live suffering with strength and serenity, along with the sense of giving one's life until the end.”: PMS Director's testimony of Bishop of Ziguinchor Dakar (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Bruno Favero, OMI, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Senegal and Mauritania sent Fides his testimony on Bishop Maixent Coly, Bishop of Ziguinchor (capital of Casamance ...
• 28 August 2010
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Spreading the Gospel in a context marked by violence: theme of Missiology Conference in East Congo Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – How should we communicate the Good News to the victims of recent wars? How should we communicate the Gospel of peace to those who find it difficult to live as brothers, after the horrors of w ...