Africa
12 June 2008
AFRICA/DJIBOUTI - Fighting between soldiers of Djibouti and Eritrea near the strategic Strait of Bab el Mandeb
Djibouti (Agenzia Fides) – 9 soldiers of Djibouti are dead and 60 wounded, after fighting broke out on the border between Eritrea and Djibouti 3 days ago. No information has been released regarding victims on the part ...
11 June 2008
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - “Clear signs of hope are appearing, however we must act with strength in fighting the plague of AIDS and poverty.”
Maputo (Agenzia Fides) – “We support and encourage those who are working in the peace effort. May they do their best so that all Mozambicans may have life and have it to the full,” the Bishops of Mozambique said in ...
11 June 2008
AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - “The Church has the task of forming consciences, of spreading awareness, of preparing new leaders, so that tomorrow can see a better life and a new Sierra Leone can emerge,” a missionary tells Fides
Freetown (Agenzia Fides) – “For the majority of the inhabitants of Sierra Leone, they barely make it to the end of the year. The world agriculture crisis and continual rise of fuel prices has got the nation on its kn ...
10 June 2008
AFRICA/BURUNDI - Further talks in South Africa for reaching a definitive peace accord for Burundi
Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) – A new stage in the peace process in Burundi has opened following the return of the National Liberation Force (FNL), Agathon Rwasa, to Burundi’s capital, Bujumbura. The FNL is the last of t ...
10 June 2008
AFRICA/SOMALIA - “The commitment of the international community is fundamental in bringing peace back to Somalia,” the Apostolic Administrator of Mogadishu tells Fides, following the cease-fire signing
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) – “It is definitely good news to hear of the accords and reconciliation meetings, although there have been many in recent years and the war continues,” Agenzia Fides was told by Bishop Gio ...
9 June 2008
AFRICA/SUDAN - Agreement reached on Abyei, an oil-rich territory disputed over by northern and southern Sudan
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – An accord has been reached on Abyei, the land that has been in dispute between northern and southern Sudan, which has lead to the recent fighting over its control (see Fides 21/5/2008). The a ...
9 June 2008
AFRICA/DR CONGO - The offensive against the “negative forces” has still not begun, say local sources in east Congo
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – “Right now the situation is calm and there are still no signs of the announced offensive on the negative forces,” Fides was told by a source from the local Church in southern Kivu, in the ...
6 June 2008
AFRICA/ANGOLA - “We want to expand the area of cultivated land to 4 million hectares by 2013,” Angola’s Foreign Affairs Minister announced in Rome
Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - Angola wants to increase cereals production between the 2009-2013 period, in about 4 million hectares of land, to produce over 15 million tons. This was its Foreign Affairs Minister, João Mirand ...
5 June 2008
AFRICA/UGANDA - Crowds attend the festival for Ugandan Martyrs
Kampala (Agenzia Fides) – According to the local Church, the festivities held in honor of the Ugandan Martyrs (celebrated June 3) 1.2 million pilgrims, including many from Kenya, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Co ...
5 June 2008
AFRICA/UGANDA - The Church objects to the new law on land property
Kampala (Agenzia Fides) – “The church objects to the spirit and substance of the Land Amendment Bill of 2007,” said Bishop Matthias Ssekamanya of Lugazi, President of the Ugandan Bishops’ Conference, at the close ...
5 June 2008
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Regional offensive against “negative forces” in the Great Lakes Region: population of eastern Congo showing serious concern
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The offensive announced against the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA, see Fides 4/6/2008) is giving way to an even greater participation on the part of countries in the Great Lakes Region in pla ...
4 June 2008
AFRICA/KENYA - “Include migrants in the local pastoral ministry, for an increasingly ‘catholic’ Church”: address given by Cardinal Martino at the African Meeting on migration
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino, President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People, presented the Instruction “Erga migrantes caritas Christi” tha ...
4 June 2008
AFRICA/UGANDA - Regional war against the Lord’s Resistance Army follows failed peace negotiations
Kampala (Agenzia Fides) – “The negotiations are no more, the man (Kony) doesn't know what he wants and we have resolved to go the military way.” This was how Major Paddy Ankunda, spokesman for the Ugandan Army, ann ...
3 June 2008
AFRICA/KENYA - “Do not remain only on the aspect of security in order to understand migration,” said Cardinal Martino in the African Meeting on migration inaugurated in Nairobi
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – Migration is “constantly on the policy agendas of governmental legislative bodies. There remains, however, the suspicion that the phenomena of migration may not be perceived in all their com ...
3 June 2008
AFRICA - African programs for improving the continent’s food self-sufficiency
Rome (Agenzia Fides) – To improve African small farmers’ access to the market and increase the use of better technologies in agricultural production. These are some of the measures being taken to reach food self-suff ...
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