Africa

• 29 March 2010
  AFRICA/KENYA - Schools closed in several coastal areas due to severe cholera epidemic Msambweni (Agenzia Fides) – About 11,000 students from different schools in the districts of Kwale and Msambweni, in the coastal area of Kenya, were forced to leave school before the Easter holidays following a severe ...
• 29 March 2010
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Northeastern region suffering famine: nearly 1 million people at risk Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – According to a note from the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS Net) sent to Fides, there are about 900 thousand people in the region of Karamoja, northeastern Uganda, who are facing a ...
• 29 March 2010
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Meningitis kills 10% of people infected 48 hours after first signs of symptoms Kano (Agenzia Fides) – According to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), as of March 24, 156 people have died of meningitis (of 1500 infected) in Nigeria. A third of the deaths were recorded in the northeas ...
• 27 March 2010
  AFRICA/KENYA - Christian Churches increase pressure to abolish new Constitutional clause setting the beginning of life at birth Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - “The Catholic Church strongly feels the fight against abortion is the fight for the family,” said Cardinal John Njue, Archbishop of Nairobi, in an ecumenical encounter that took place on Mar ...
• 27 March 2010
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - “Mkombozi Bank,” first Catholic commercial bank in the country, founded with local funds Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - “The church believes that if it has to serve the people well, these kind of projects are inevitable,” said Cardinal Polycarp Pengo, Archbishop of Dar es Salaam, in the opening ceremony ...
• 27 March 2010
  AFRICA/CONGO - Laboratory in Cité Guanella, along with the primary school, will be important reference point for many local villages Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Work has begun on the construction of an analysis laboratory at the “Cité Guanella” of Plateaux de Batek. The Guanellian agricultural community, which is about 120 km from Kinshasa welco ...
• 26 March 2010
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Catholic Church launches website for World Cup: utmost attention to prostitution of minors Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "The goal of this site is not only to provide information to fans, but especially not to miss the opportunity to speak of the Church in South Africa and the extraordinary work she does here ...
• 26 March 2010
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - 100 billion barrels of oil still untapped in Africa, but will future oil revenues be used to improve the living conditions of local people? Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Over 100 billion barrels of oil. This is the amount of oil reserves in Africa according to the 4th Congress of the African Petroleum Producers Association (APPA), which opened March 24 in Ki ...
• 26 March 2010
  AFRICA/NIGER - New health centers help fight malnutrition of 200,000 children Niamey (Agenzia Fides) – Most government health centers in Niger are not ready to meet the needs of the number of malnourished children calculated by the Ministry of Health. An estimated at least 200,000 children need ...
• 26 March 2010
  AFRICA - Polluted water: silent killer that claims the lives of 1.8 children under 5 every year Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – Every 20 seconds a child dies of an illness related to water pollution, every year about 1.8 million of them under age five. These alarming figures emerge from the last report of the Unit ...
• 25 March 2010
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Archbishop of Jos: “It was politics rather than religion that caused the fighting for years. They fought not because they wanted to be holy Catholics or Protestants but because of political power. It is time to liberate religion from the manipulative hands of people who when they fail, use religion as an excuse for their failure.” Jos (Agenzia Fides) - “Since 1994 the wind of ethnic, political, social and religious discord has blown throughout Plateau State resulting in depressing loss of lives and properties. Is God testing our faith so as to p ...
• 25 March 2010
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Cardinal Turkson, representing the Holy Father, joins local Church in commemorating victims of the Plateau State clashes Jos (Agenzia Fides) – On March 21, a Mass was celebrated at St. Fidelis Catholic Church, at Dogon Na Hawa (about 20 miles from Jos, capital of Plateau State, central Nigeria), where Fides has learned from Archbishop Ig ...
• 24 March 2010
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - “LRA should be considered a terrorist group,” Bishop of Dorma-Dungu in northeast Congo tells Fides Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – During the night between March 20 and 21, the Ugandan rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) attacked the town Bamokandi, near the town of Dungu, 780 km north-east of Kisangani, the capit ...
• 24 March 2010
  AFRICA - Increasing prices, lack of infrastructure, closing borders affect 10 million in Sahel Region Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – West Africa can meet its food needs through regional trade, most agricultural experts say, if countries keep their borders open for the free flow of staple grains, especially in times of ...
• 24 March 2010
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - 25th Anniversary of World Youth Day in Ziguichor: a special event for Catholics of Guinea-Bissau, Gambia, and Senegal Bissau (Agenzia Fides) – Bishop Pedro Zilli of Bafatá will attend the celebration of World Youth Day 2010 being held in Ziguichor (in Casamance, Senegal), March 26 to 28. This is what was stated in a note sent to Fide ...