Africa
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19 November 2008
AFRICA/CONGO - Partial retreat of rebel troops from the area surrounding Goma
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The CNDP (National Congress for the Defense of the People) rebels, led by Laurent Nkunda, are retreating from the area surrounding Goma (capital of North Kivu, eastern Congo). This is what a ...
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18 November 2008
AFRICA/SOMALIA - Chaos mounts as rescue attempts continue for captured religious sisters
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) – The international community is once again focusing its gaze on Somalia, where the situation in the territory controlled by the National Transitional Government, supported by Ethiopian troops ...
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18 November 2008
AFRICA/CONGO - North Kivu: more fighting between the regular army and pro-government militias
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – More fighting has been reported in Kanyabayonga, an important strategic location in North Kivu, in eastern Congo. The fighting is taking place between the regular army and the “Mai-Mai” p ...
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17 November 2008
AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Legislative elections take place in peace, however drug-trafficking remains an issue
Bissau (Agenzia Fides) – Legislative elections took place in peace in Guinea Bissau yesterday, when half a million voters voted for 100 representatives in the National Assembly. In order to guarantee the legality of th ...
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17 November 2008
AFRICA/RWANDA - Exports record for Rwandan minerals, in spite of international financial crisis
Kigali (Agenzia Fides) – The exportation of minerals from Rwanda reached a record worth of 70 million dollars in nine months. This is what Rwandan Minister for Natiral Resources and Minerals, Vincent Karega, said.
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14 November 2008
AFRICA/DR CONGO - “There is a silent genocide taking place in east Congo, right before our very eyes,” say Congolese Bishops, in an urgent plea to the international community
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of the Permanent Committee of the Congolese Bishops' Conference (CENCO) have issued a “cry of grief and protest,” saying that they are “disturbed and overcome by the human t ...
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14 November 2008
AFRICA/DR CONGO - “Indescribable and often unknown damage”: testimony of the Bishop of Goma, the capital of North Kivu, now in the hands of rebels
Goma (Agenzia Fides) – There seems to be a break in the fighting in North Kivu (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo) taking place between the Congolese army and rebels led by Laurent Nkunda, who have concentrated thei ...
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13 November 2008
AFRICA/SUDAN - Sudanese President announces ceasefire in Darfour, however rebels do not comply
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - “I hereby announce our immediate unconditional ceasefire between the armed forces and the warring factions, provided that an effective monitoring mechanism is put into action and observed by ...
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12 November 2008
AFRICA/SOMALIA - “I have reason to believe that the two Sisters' kidnappers are only vandals,” the Bishop of Djibouti tells Fides
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “I know that area of the Kenyan-Somalian border quite well and I knew the two nuns who were kidnapped from the mission in El-Wak,” Bishop Giorgio Bertin of Djibouti, Apostolic Administrator of ...
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12 November 2008
AFRICA/ZAMBIA - “We wish to take up the testimony left by the missionaries, to continue spreading the Gospel, in communion with the Universal Church,” the PMS Director of Zambia tells Fides
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “ We wish to take up the testimony left by the missionaries, to continue spreading the Gospel, in communion with the Universal Church,” says Fr. Bernard Macadani Zulu, National Director of the ...
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11 November 2008
AFRICA/SOMALIA - Uncertainty as to the whereabouts of two Italian religious sisters kidnapped in Kenya by Somalian gunmen
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) – The two religious sisters who were kidnapped on November 10 in El Wak, a Kenyan town on the border with Somalia, were supposedly taken to Garbahaarey, a small Somali town 175 kilometers away ...
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11 November 2008
AFRICA/DR CONGO - As humanitarian crisis continues in North Kivo, the Archbishop of Bukavu asks leading powers to cease their interference, as it only adds to tensions in Congo
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – It seems that the fragil truce declared by rebel leader Laurent Nkunda in North Kivu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, is being kept, however the humanitarian crisis remains seri ...
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10 November 2008
AFRICA/DR CONGO - 1,100 women and children have been taken in by a VIS (International Volunteer Program for Development) camp in downtown Goma. The Salesian NGO's Press Office Director shares her testimony with Fides.
Goma (Agenzia Fides) - “The humanitarian crisis is of drastic proportions, as the fighting brings more and more people into Goma,” Fides was informed by Giulia Pigliucci, of the Press Office of the NGO “VIS” (Int ...
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10 November 2008
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - "There is a need to recover the elements of African tradition that are compatible with the Catholic faith, in order to promote a new evangelization,” PMS National Director tells Agenzia Fides
Rome (Agenzia Fides) – “Our country is very large (with a surface area of 622,984 km²) and has a fairly small population (3,600,000 inhabitants), located in the center of Africa. This is one of the main reasons behi ...
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7 November 2008
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Fides learns of dramatic testimonies from the humanitarian crisis in Kivu
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - “The humanitarian situation in North Kivu is one of catastrophic proportions,” Fr. Sylvestre, Director of the Radio Maria “Queen of Peace” in Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu. “We ar ...
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