Africa

• 9 November 2007
  AFRICA/UGANDA - “Great hopes for peace, but the situation calls for much prudence and patience” says AVSI representative in Kampala Kampala (Agenzia Fides)- “Peace has never been so near and hope is tangible but it should be remembered that post-conflict situations are always very delicate” said Filippo Ciantia, representative of the local AVSI O ...
• 8 November 2007
  AFRICA/MOROCCO - West Africa and the Caribbean principal routes for cocaine on its way to Europe: Interpol warning Marrakech (Agenzia Fides) - West Africa is one of two principal routes used by drug traffickers to export South American cocaine to Europe. This was said by Emmanuel Leclaire, vice director of Interpol and person in char ...
• 8 November 2007
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “Darfur at the crossroads” says UN secretary general Khartoum (Agenzia Fides)- The situation in Darfur has reached a crucial crossroads for restoring peace, secretary general of the United Nations Organisation Ban Ki-moon said in a report made public yesterday 7 November i ...
• 6 November 2007
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Ugandan rebel leaders ask "forgiveness for the suffering caused to our people” in northern Uganda Kampala (Agenzia Fides)- Yesterday 5 November a step forward was made in the process for peace in Northern Uganda: members of the Lord's Resistance Army asked forgiveness for the suffering caused to the people in over 20 ...
• 6 November 2007
  AFRICA - Africans increasingly urbanised Rome (Agenzia Fides)- Forget pictures of rural Africa: the slum is now advancing. A report issued by the International Institute for Environment and Development said that Africa urban population is larger than that of No ...
• 5 November 2007
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - “The priest of the third millennium: Witness of Christ and missionary in the Church and in society”: Catholic Church in Madagascar concludes third Synod Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides)- “The priest of the third millennium: Witness of Christ and missionary in the Church and in society” was the theme of the 3rd Synod organised by the Catholic Church in Madagascar held in ...
• 5 November 2007
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Telecommunications in Africa: local governments and international institutions make promises in Kigali Kigali (Agenzia Fides)- A promise to invest 55 billion dollars (38 billion euro) in the next five years in the sector of African telecommunications, was the closing act of Connecting Africa Summit held at the end of Octo ...
• 31 October 2007
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - In early November Cardinal Ivan Dias Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples will visit Mozambique Maputo (Agenzia Fides)- On 4 November Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples will start a pastoral visit to Mozambique, making his first stop in Nampula, Mozambique's “norther ...
• 31 October 2007
  AFRICA/MOROCCO - “We must make better use of Africa's enormous hydroelectric potential”: Meeting on electricity in Africa Tangier (Agenzia Fides)- Africa has enormous hydroelectric power which it does not exploit. This is the opinion of representatives of 52 electricity companies gathered 30 and 31 October in Tangier Morocco for the 39th ge ...
• 30 October 2007
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Development through information and communications technology ICT: in 5 five years from 16 million to 135 million mobile phones in Africa, International Meeting in Kigali Kigali (Agenzia Fides)- “In just 10 years, what was once a luxury and a privilege, the mobile phone, has become a basic necessity in urban and rural Africa" said Paul Kagame President of Rwanda, underlining Africa's p ...
• 30 October 2007
  AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - Inongo diocese starts Evangelisation Centenary celebrations Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- The diocese of Inongo in the north of the province of Bandundu, in the west of Democratic Congo began Evangelisation Centenary celebrations October 2007-2008, with a solemn Mass on 14 October he ...
• 29 October 2007
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi resigns Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides)- Situation ever more confused in Somalia, where today, 29 October, prime minister Ali Mohamed Gedi presented his resignation to the temporary parliament meeting in Baidoa (250 km north west of ...
• 29 October 2007
  AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - “Violence against women is a way of killing the whole community ” a report from east Democratic Congo denounces Bukavu (Agenzia Fides)- “Action aimed to humiliate and kill a whole community using exceptional and at times systematic action perpetrated in one village or another”. This is goal of sexual abuse of women in south Ki ...
• 29 October 2007
  AFRICA/BENIN - Salesian Sisters of the Sacred Hearts open new mission to help hearing impaired children Péporyakou (Agenzia Fides) - A new mission of the Salesian Sisters of the Sacred Hearts opens today at Péporyakou, in the diocese of Natitingou in Benin. The first community has four members, from two different congre ...
• 26 October 2007
  AFRICA/GABON - “A major concern is young people to guarantee the future of the Church and the country” says president of the Catholic Bishops of Gabon in Rome for their ad limina visit Rome (Agenzia Fides) - A Church committed to the formation of lay Catholics, young people especially, which works together with the state institutions and other religious communities in the country. This was the picture ...