Africa

• 20 November 2008
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - “We are seeing troubling signs of a possible spreading of the war into South Kivu,” local Church sources tell Fides Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - “We are seeing signs of a plan to launch hostilities, which would include South Kivu,” Agenzia Fides was told by a local Church source (we withhold their name for security reasons) in Bukav ...
• 20 November 2008
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Health complex run by Camillian missionaries, at the service of the people Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) – When they arrived in what was then Upper Volta (Burkina Faso's name at the time), in 1967, the Daughters of Saint Camillus (the Camillians) began a network of healthcare centers, offering ...
• 19 November 2008
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “The peace accord for the South is losing strength”: Sudan’s Bishops send out an alert Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - “We are worried about the fact that the letter and the spirit of the Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA) is losing its strength among the main signers, as well as among its supporters and those ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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. � ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...