Africa

• 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 ...
• 26 October 2007
  AFRICA/GABON - Information Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Gabon, with an area of 267,667sq km. And a population of about 1,500,000 is situated at the heart of the continent of Africa. Irrigated by the basin of the River Ogoué, the country has an equator ...
• 25 October 2007
  AFRICA - Privatisation of peacekeeping in Africa: conference in Nairobi Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- In the midst of a heated debate over the role of Private Military Companies (PMC) in Iraq, a conference on how to employ “contractors”, or mercenaries, in peacekeeping operations in Africa wa ...
• 25 October 2007
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Violence in north Kivu causes never ending flow of refugees Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- In recent weeks some 30,000 more people have fled violence in north Kivu in the east of D.R. Congo. This was denounced by the UN High Commission for Refugees UNHCR. “This latest explosion of v ...
• 24 October 2007
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Mission Sunday in Chaone mountain villages: greetings from the Bishop, the son of a local Muslim, and the inauguration of a new mill Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides)- Mission Sunday in a mission country: a testimony from Italian Monfort missionary Fr. Piergiorgio Gamba in Malawi. Fr. Gamba was reporting from Mount Chaone, near the great Chirwa swamp which fr ...
• 23 October 2007
  AFRICA/EGYPT - SECAM Standing Committee meets in Cairo: principal focus for the Bishops, human trafficking, 200 years since the End of Slavery in Africa Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Standing Committee of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) will be meeting in Cairo, Egypt from October 25-29, 2007. The issue of new slaveries or human traf ...
• 22 October 2007
  AFRICA - Africa rejoices for two new African Cardinals: the Archbishops of Dakar and Nairobi Rome (Agenzia Fides)- “I received the news of my appointment as Cardinal, as a call, a duty, to serve the Lord more and better” said Archbishop Théodore Adrien Sarr of Dakar in Senegal and President of the Bishops' ...
• 19 October 2007
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - “We are called to help spread the Gospel”: national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies says in letter for World Mission Sunday Abuja (Agenzia Fides)- “World Mission Sunday is an opportunity to reflect on the urgency and importance of the Church's missionary activity, still today, 50 years since the Fide Donum Encyclical” Mgr Hypolite Adigwe, ...
• 19 October 2007
  AFRICA/REPUBLIC OF CONGO - “Formation for young people, support for families and promotion of social justice: these are our priorities” says President of Catholic Bishops of Congo, in Rome for the ad limina visit Rome (Agenzia Fides)- “The formation of young people and support for the family are the main concern of the Catholic Church in the Republic of Congo” Bishop Louis Portella Mbuyu of Kinkala and President of the Bisho ...