Africa

• 23 July 2008
  AFRICA/KENYA - Students’ rebellion also affecting the Seminary in Nairobi: “The frustration of the young people is not the only excuse for the violence,” a local Church source informs Fides Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – Over 300 secondary schools are in revolt in Kenya and in some cases, the students have sacked and burned the school buildings. The dormitories of Queen of Apostles Minor Seminary in the Archdi ...
• 23 July 2008
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Sudan’s President on a “promotional” visit to Darfur Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – It is a “promotional” tour to show the world his own popularity, even in Darfur. This is how international analysts have interpreted Sudan President Omar al-Bashir’s visit to the turbul ...
• 22 July 2008
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Talks scheduled between the government and the opposition in the statement signed yesterday by Mugabe and the opposition leader Harare (Agenzia Fides) – Today, July 22, negotiation talks begin in South Africa, between Zimbabwe’s government and the opposition party. The talks are a direct result of the preliminary agreement signed yesterday in ...
• 22 July 2008
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - “The abduction of humanitarian aid workers is a result of the generalized chaos: even the control mechanisms on Somali clans have been broken”: an expert on the Horn of Africa gives his perspective Rome (Agenzia Fides) – “The abduction of humanitarian aid workers is a result of the extreme fragmentation of Somalian society,” Agenzia Fides was told by Federico Battera, Professor of Political Science at the Uni ...
• 21 July 2008
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Change for Zimbabwe: the government and opposition sign an agreement to begin direct dialogue Harare (Agenzia Fides) – Is the political climate in Zimbabwe changing? This is what international analysts and the country’s population are all asking after it was announced that on July 21, an accord would be signe ...
• 21 July 2008
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Cocaine: a threat to fragile local establishments from Guinea Bissau to Sierra Leone Bissau (Agenzia Fides) – The confiscation of over 500 kilograms of cocaine from a plane in the Bissau airport is showing the gravity of the drug-trafficking situation, especially, the extent of its complexity on all le ...
• 18 July 2008
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Pastoral prospects on globalization and its consequences on African cultures: Convention of African Members of the Pontifical Council for Culture Bagamoyo (Agenzia Fides) – The African Members and Consultors of the Pontifical Council for Culture will meet from July 23-26, 2008 with the aim of providing a new impulse to the pastoral approach to culture. The theme ...
• 18 July 2008
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Apostolic Administrator of the Catholic Church in Liberia calls for the formation of a war crimes tribunal Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) – “We must ensure that those who bear the greatest responsibilities for the horrors in Liberia must be held accountable for the crimes committed,” said Monsignor Andrew J. Karnley, Apostoli ...
• 17 July 2008
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Angola’s Bishops: “We entrust the successful outcome of the elections on September 5 to the intercession of the Virgin Mary, Patroness of Angola.” Luanda (Agenzia Fides) – “We are glad to see that the date for elections this year, September 5, has finally been determined. As Pastors, we once again ask the faithful and all Angolans to participate with awareness ...
• 17 July 2008
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Tensions mount between Nigeria and Cameroon over the Bakassi Peninsula Lagos (Agenzia Fides) – Tensions have sparked once again over the Bakassi Peninsula, where in recent days, three Cameroon soldiers were wounded in an assault on a military post on the border with Nigeria. Bakassi is ...
• 16 July 2008
  AFRICA/TOGO - The Catholic University of Togo opens, forming a part of the Catholic University of Western Africa Lomé (Agenzia Fides) – On July 5, the new Catholic University of Togo was officially opened. The Université Catholique de l’Afrique de l’Ouest-Unité du Togo (UCAO-UUT) has two locations, one in Sanguera, on the ...
• 16 July 2008
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Parliament members support Congolese Bishops in observing that the country is not being governed Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The difficulties that the Democratic Republic of Congo is facing have been addressed by the Bishops in a public statement issued at the close of their Plenary Assembly (see Fides 14/7/2008) a ...
• 15 July 2008
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - “Building a community based on the law of love, following the example of Saint Paul”: Pastoral Statement from the Bishops of Angola, Sao Tome and Principe for the Year of Saint Paul Luanda (Agenzia Fides) – “We are invited to live this year as a year of grace, a year in which each of our hearts is called to conversion, to a more intense living of the Gospel in our lives, a credible testimony of ...
• 15 July 2008
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The demand to file charges against the President of Sudan creates an important precedent and opens a heated debate in the international community Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – Two African crises are the focus of attention for the international community that appears divided on the proper means to resolving it. Following the Russian and Chinese vetoes on a UN Securi ...
• 14 July 2008
  AFRICA/CONGO - “It’s time for us to wake up”: Message from the Congolese Bishops on the occasion of the nation’s anniversary of independence Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – “We are still far from the dream of a more beautiful Congo,” the Bishops of the Democratic Republic of Congo affirmed in their message, “It’s time for us to wake up,” published at t ...