Africa

• 4 May 2007
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Situation desperate: more than one third of the people in Mogadishu abandoned the capital in the past two months Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The United Nations World Food Programme announced today that it intends to accelerate food supplies to at least 100,000 of the 365,000 people forced to abandon their homes in Mogadishu because of f ...
• 2 May 2007
  AFRICA/MALI - “Political activity is not promoting one's own career but rather the common good” says Catholic Bishops in a statement on presidential elections Bamako (Agenzia Fides)- “And if we were to re-establish politics?” was the title of issued by the Catholic Bishops of Mali on the occasion of the recent presidential elections. The statement, of which Fides received ...
• 30 April 2007
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Darfur Day : thousands of demonstrators all over the world demand immediate end to all violence Rome (Fides Service)- Yesterday 29 April in thirty capitals all over the world thousands took to the streets calling for an immediate end to violence in the western Sudan region of Darfur since 2003 at the centre of a dr ...
• 30 April 2007
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - A special meeting of Catholic Bishops discusses roots of Zimbabwe's crisis Harare (Agenzia Fides) - The roots of the crisis in Zimbabwe were the main topic for discussion at a special meeting of local Bishops last week. According to CISA new service in Nairobi, the bishops listened to various r ...
• 28 April 2007
  AFRICA/MALI - “These elections are a sign of democratic vitality however more effort must be made to bring the people closer to politics” says President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Mali Bamako (Agenzia Fides)- “These elections are a sign of democratic vitality however more effort must be made to help people understand what democracy is and what it means to vote. It will be a long term undertaking but ...
• 28 April 2007
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - “We failed to achieve free, fair and credible elections” Catholic Bishops of Nigerian say on the basis of reports by 30,000 local Church observers Abuja (Agenzia Fides)- “Reports from our observers show that once again we failed to achieve free, fair and credible elections. These reports from all over the country demonstrate that the people's mandate has been abu ...
• 27 April 2007
  AFRICA/UGANDA - “Atmosphere of confidence that the talks will have positive outcome” says S. Egidio Community representative at peace talks for northern Uganda resumed yesterday Juba (Agenzia Fides)- “There is an atmosphere of confidence and optimism with regard to the outcome of peace talks" Giancarlo Penza, a member of the S. Egidio Community “facilitator” delegation at talks for peace i ...
• 26 April 2007
  AFRICA/GHANA - “We continue to preach the Gospel following the example of the first missionaries” at the end of Evangelisation Centenary celebrations Bishop of Navrongo-Bolgatanga speaks to Fides Accra (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of celebrations for the Centenary of Evangelisation in northern Ghana (see Fides 21 and 23 April 2007), Fides spoke with the local Catholic Bishop Lucas Abadamloora who is in charge of ...
• 25 April 2007
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Horn of Africa, rivalry, extremism and disputed oil, an explosive mixture Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Tension rises in the Horn of Africa where regional rivalry, fundamentalism and interests in real or presumed local oil resources on the part of major world powers, have produced and explosive cockt ...
• 25 April 2007
  AFRICA - Another 2.4 million jobs a year are needed to halve poverty by 2015 Rome (Agenzia Fides)- Another 2.4 million new jobs must be created every year in Africa to reach one of the UN's Millennial Development Goals by 2015. This was affirmed in a report by the International Labour Organisatio ...
• 25 April 2007
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - The Pope appoints new Bishop of Kindu Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 25 April 2007 appointed Rev. Fr. Willy Ngumbi, M. Afr., Bishop of Kindu (Democratic Republic of Congo), until now the Bishop elect was formator at the ...
• 24 April 2007
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Elections: disputed victory of outgoing president's party candidate Abuja (Agenzia Fides)- Umaru Yar'Adua t he candidate of the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP led by outgoing President Olusegun Obasanj has been declared the winner of Nigerian presidential elections on 21 April ( ...
• 24 April 2007
  AFRICA/GHANA - “A great celebration for all the people of God” northern Ghana evangelisation centenary comes to a close Accra (Agenzia Fides)- “Participation in the liturgy was intense and devout” said local sources in the Ghana diocese of Navrongo, where celebrations for the centenary of evangelisation in northern Ghana concluded yes ...
• 23 April 2007
  AFRICA/GHANA - “ We thank God for the countless graces he has given northern Ghana in the past hundred years ” says Cardinal Dias, Pope Benedict XVI's Special Envoy to close Celebrations for northern Ghana Evangelisation Centenary Navrongo (Agenzia Fides)- “Every Jubilee is an opportune occasion to look at the past with gratitude, to the present with joy, to the future with hope” said Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Eva ...
• 23 April 2007
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Uncertainty with regard to regularity of presidential and legislative elections in Nigeria Lagos (Agenzia Fides)- While the candidate of the governing PDP People’s Democratic Party Umaru Yar'Adua, appears to be leading in the presidential elections in Nigerian on 21 April, the international community and loc ...