Africa

• 28 February 2023
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 1, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle confirmed Rev. Isidore Nombré, of the diocesan clergy of Koudougou, the position of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies ...
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  28 February 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Less violence in elections: Observers complain about organizational problems Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The level of violence in the margins of the elections last February 25, during which the Head of State was elected and the deputies of the National Assembly (cf. Fides 24/2/2023), although less th ...
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  27 February 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "We await clarification on the invasion of the Archbishopric by the Republican Guard" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We demand clarifications from the military hierarchy that raided the archbishopric and cathedral", says a statement from the Archdiocese of Lubumbashi where on the morning of Friday February 2 ...
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  27 February 2023
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Psychological assistance, schools, food for 7 million people: Salesian missionaries always on the front line Mekelle (Agenzia Fides) - "Sending humanitarian aid to Tigray has become easier and we continue to assist people who have been affected by the two years of conflict", wrote Father Abba Hailemariam Medhin, Superior of the ...
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  24 February 2023
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - After being injured by a landmine: Father Norberto Pozzi arrived in Bologna Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The 71-year-old Italian Carmelite missionary Norberto Pozzi, injured by a landmine on the road from Bozoum to Bocaranga in north-western Central African Republic (see Fides, 13/2/2023), arrived t ...
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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 ...