Africa

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  24 February 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Elections on February 25th and March 11th: The country is at a turning point Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Two "old foxes" of Nigerian politics and one (almost) outsider, very popular with the younger electorate, are the three favorites in the presidential elections that will take place in Nigeria tomo ...
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  23 February 2023
  AFRICA/ALGERIA -The three Nuns of Timimoun Timimoun (Agenzia Fides) - The village of Timimoun rises in the homonymous oasis in the center of the Algerian desert, more than 1,200 kilometers south of Algiers. Tourist guides point it out for the red ochre color of i ...
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  23 February 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - In the east of the Country: Around 10 million people depend on humanitarian aid Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A total of 2.25 billion dollars is needed to help the 10 million people in the three eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Ituri, North and South Kivu) who, according to th ...
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  22 February 2023
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - The number of the latest jihadist attacks worsens Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - At least 70 soldiers have been killed in four days in two different clashes with jihadist groups in northern Burkina Faso. The bloodiest clash dates back to February 17 when at least 51 sol ...
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  22 February 2023
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - The missionaries in the Anjanamasina juvenile prison: Making young people feel loved, important to someone, not a burden to get rid of Ankililoaka (Agenzia Fides) - 'Trano zaza maditra', or Home for naughty boys, is the name of the state rehabilitation center which receives more than a hundred children and young people in Anjanamasina, a suburb of the c ...
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  21 February 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Uncertainty and the economic crisis characterize the election campaign Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - In addition to the insecurity (only yesterday, February 20th, at least eight police officers were killed in the south-east of the country), Nigeria is also facing serious economic difficulties ahe ...
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  21 February 2023
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Father Norberto Pozzi is to have a second operation in Italy Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Father Norberto is on his way to Italy," says Father Aurelio Gazzera, a confrere of the 71-year-old Italian Carmelite missionary Norberto Pozzi, who was injured in a land mine explosion on the B ...
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  20 February 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Attention to the use of new technologies for the vote on February 25 Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Our votes are precious; we must use them well, encouraging all eligible citizens to vote en masse for God-fearing, honest, dynamic and transparent leaders for a better Nigeria", says the final co ...
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  18 February 2023
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Catechism and integration programs for South Sudanese refugees. "Good deeds" in Adjumani refugee camps Adjumani (Agenzia Fides) - In Adjumani, in northern Uganda, the Jesuit father Lasantha Deabrew coordinates the Jesuit Refugee Service project for South Sudanese hosted in the refugee camps of Maaji and Aiylo. From this l ...
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  17 February 2023
  AFRICA - Strong resumption of jihadist attacks in the Maghreb and Sahel in January Rome (Agenzia Fides) - According to the Spanish International Observatory for Studies on Terrorism (OIET), the results of the activities of the various jihadist groups operating in the Maghreb and the Sahel are 134 attac ...
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  16 February 2023
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Is ISIS Mozambique now hitting only military targets? In any case, civilians are also affected Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Change of strategy by ISIS-Mozambique? This is what one wonders after the latest attacks carried out by the jihadist group against military and government targets that spared the inhabitants of t ...
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  16 February 2023
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - A musician 'trapped' in the body of a nurse: Father Camorani between missionary work and healthcare Monassao (Agenzia Fides) - "Here, in my small, modest, but dignified village hospital, the care of the body and the care of the soul come together", writes to Fides Father Davide Camorani, who arrived in Central Africa o ...
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  15 February 2023
  AFRICA/TOGO - Small hospital in the suburbs of an indigenous religious institute at the service of the population Lomè (Agenzia Fides) - The 'Msgr. Joseph Strebler', is a small field hospital belonging to the Sisters of Our Lady of the Church (NDE), an indigenous religious institute founded on August 15, 1952 in Noépé, Togo, by t ...
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  15 February 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Catholic parish and hospital in Birambizo looted: vaccination campaign against measles ruined Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Among the buildings looted on February 13 by the M23 rebels in Birambizo, in the Bukombo group, Rutshuru territory, in North Kivu (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo), there is also the local ...
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  14 February 2023
  AFRICA/NIGER - Basic Christian communities, a simple tool for proclaiming the Gospel Dosso (Agenzia Fides) - "I would like to tell you about our basic Christian communities which, it seems, normally operate in all the missions of the diocese except in Dosso", writes Father Rafael Casamayor from Niger. "W ...