Africa

• 7 October 2008
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Jesuits founding a house in Abidjan in a School of Moral and Political Sciences, for the students of Western Africa Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) – Form an elite African people so they can take on important leadership roles in the public and private sector, according to the Church’s social doctrine. This is the objective behind the Scho ...
• 6 October 2008
  AFRICA - From “Angolagate” to “Faina”: the mysteries of arms trafficking in Africa Rome (Agenzia Fides) – While the cargo ship “Faina” remains blocked and surrounded by ships from other countries such as the US and Russia, with its arms in the hands of Somali pirates, the Court in Paris is openin ...
• 6 October 2008
  AFRICA - The international financial crisis also affects Africa Rome (Agenzia Fides) – What are the consequences for African countries suffering from the crisis that is hitting international financial markets? According to experts, the continent is also suffering a financial crisi ...
• 3 October 2008
  AFRICA/GUINEA - “The people await a better future,” says the Archbishop of Conakry on the 50th anniversary of the country’s independence Conakry (Agenzia Fides) – “The Republic of Guinea has celebrated 50 years of independence amidst uncertainty and expectation for a better future. The absence of the Chief of State, Lansana Conte, at the official cere ...
• 3 October 2008
  AFRICA/CONGO - The Catholic Church presents a report on poverty: “We should renew our preference for the poor,” says the President of the Bishops’ Conference Brazzaville (Agenzia Fides) – “The results of the investigation on poverty are necessary. They are the sign of the efforts of an evangelical lucidity that the Church tries to make, so as to be evermore faithful to he ...
• 2 October 2008
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - As voters’ registration begins for November elections, tensions on the rise from soldiers’ mutiny Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) – 91 soldiers were fired from the Ivory Coast Army for mutiny. This is what a statement from the Ivory Coast’s leadership said, informing that another 13 soldiers have deserted and “are acti ...
• 29 September 2008
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - “The international community should end its ambiguous policy on Kivu: an armed group guilty of atrocities cannot be placed on par with a legally elected government,” missionaries say. Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Violence has once again broke out between the Congolese Army and rebels of the National Congress for People's Defense (CNDP) led by Laurent Nkunda in North Kivu, in the eastern part of the De ...
• 26 September 2008
  AFRICA/KENYA - “We need to resolve the drama of those who have lost their homes, as soon as possible,” says Kofi Annan, mediator in the Kenyan political crisis Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – “The situation of the internal refugees is in the mind of all Kenyans. We need to find a solution as soon as possible.” These were the words of former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in ma ...
• 26 September 2008
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - New South African President assures the business world: “I will not try to change a policy that works.” Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – “Mine is not the desire to deviate from what is working. In a turbulent global economy, we will remain true to the policies that have kept South Africa steady.” This was what Kgalema ...
• 25 September 2008
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Situation in eastern Congo remains serious. President Kabila declines participation in the UN General Assembly in order to observe how things evolve. Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Congolese president Joseph Kabila and Special Representative of the UN for Congo, Alan Doss, have decided not to participate in the 63rd General Assembly of the United Nations that is taking ...
• 25 September 2008
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - South African Parliament elects a President ad interim Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – South African Parliament will elect a President ad interim today, September 25, who will lead the country to the upcoming presidential elections in 2009, substituting Thabo Mbeki who resi ...
• 24 September 2008
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - “The people’s trust in institutions needs to be reestablished,” Bishops say in a message in response to the resignation of President Mbeki Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – “There is no doubt that rivalry and discord in the governing party have hindered its ability to serve the whole community in recent months. It is now time for the new leaders to focus o ...
• 24 September 2008
  AFRICA/KENYA - Concern for the respect of human rights following the publication of a report on “death squadrons” Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – Nearly 500 people have been killed in Kenya by what are called “death squadrons,” who are linked to local secret service agencies. This is what a report from the National Commission on Hum ...
• 23 September 2008
  AFRICA - “Africa’s development is a challenge and an opportunity for the whole world,” says the Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the UN New York (Agenzia Fides) – “For the last 60 years Africa, with its historical and geographic particularities, has challenged the capacity of the United Nations to carry out the high ideals enshrined in its Charter of ...
• 23 September 2008
  AFRICA/CONGO - Ugandan rebels attack eastern Congo, forcing missionaries to flee the land and join the population taking refuge in a Sudan diocese Rome (Agenzia Fides) – “Fr. Mario Benedetti and Fr. Ferruccio Gobbi are fine. They are in Yambio, in southern Sudan and are preparing their documents to travel to Kampala, in Uganda, where we have our Provincial Hous ...