Africa

• 2 January 2007
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Somalia’s difficult transition to peace after last Islamic Courts Union stronghold falls Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - The future remains uncertain for Somalia, since Government and Ethiopian troops took the last stronghold of the Union of Islamic Courts. Government troops moved into Chisimaio (500 km south of ...
• 28 December 2006
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - “The clan mentality must be put aside if peace is to be restored in Somalia” says Apostolic Administrator of Mogadishu, Bishop Bertin Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides)- “This is a new chapter in Somalia’s chaos which will never end unless the international community makes more effort and the Somalis put aside the clan mentality once and for all” Bishop G ...
• 21 December 2006
  AFRICA/SOMALIA -Heavy fighting close to interim government headquarters, flow of Somali refugees continues Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides)- There is heavy fighting near Dinsoor, 100 km from Baidoa where the Somalia’s interim government has its headquarters. According to local sources the conflict is between troops of the Islamic ...
• 20 December 2006
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Advent with the World Youth Day Cross Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides)- “The cross and icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary which Pope John Paul II consigned to young people of the world at the end of the first World Youth Day in 1984 has arrived in Malawi” said Monf ...
• 20 December 2006
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - “39,000 former guerrillas still waiting to be integrated in civil society” says UN report Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) - Until it has its own national security policy Liberia will have to rely on UN troops to guarantee protection for its citizens. This is the sense of a report recently presented to the UN Securit ...
• 20 December 2006
  AFRICA/KENYA - ““I can only be holy if I am a missionary. I can only be a missionary if I am holy”.”: theme of 4th National Pontifical Mission Societies Mission Congress Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- “I can only be holy if I am missionary. I can only be missionary if I am holy”. This was the theme of the 4th Pontifical Mission Societies Kenya National Mission Congress held in Nairobi fro ...
• 19 December 2006
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Growing concern for spread of synthetic drugs in Cape Town area Cape Town (Agenzia Fides) - There is growing concern in South Africa for the spread of synthetic drugs even more popular than Crack, the dangerous by-product of cocaine. The phenomenon is also because criminal gangs of C ...
• 19 December 2006
  AFRICA/KENYA - The country’s only Catholic Radio receives UNESCO award Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- “This is a great honour for us and a positive recognition of our station’s commitment to break the silence on HIV/AIDS,” Radio Waumini director Fr Martin Wanyoike told CISA Catholic Informa ...
• 18 December 2006
  AFRICA - Africa adopts crisis warning system Addis Ababa (Fides Service) - The African Union has adopted a 24 hour continental crisis monitoring system which will supply advice and suggestions to the AU presidency with regard to potential crisis and threats to peac ...
• 18 December 2006
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Towards presidential mandate extension. Human Rights organisations denounce police force abuse Harare (Agenzia Fides)-“The government of Zimbabwe has adopted a control system of the colonial era” said Catholic Archbishop Pius Alick Ncube of Bulawayo commenting the presentation of a report on abuse committed b ...
• 16 December 2006
  AFRICA/KENYA - “A chance to initiate the process of healing, to forgive and reconcile with one another in the interest of peaceful co-existence now and in the future”: the Bishops of AMECEA express satisfaction for Great Lakes Summit Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - “We, wish to express our appreciation to the Heads of States and Governments, of the Great Lakes Region for their initiative to come together to reflect and discuss matters of common good for ...
• 16 December 2006
  AFRICA/NIGER - Thanks to record cereal harvest in 2006 Niger overcomes food crisis. Still struggling Angola will boost agriculture Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Good news for Africa's agriculture. This year Niger, affected by a serious food shortage (see Fides 21 September 2005), has a record harvest with a surplus of 457,237 tons. According to the loc ...
• 15 December 2006
  AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - After devastating the west, floods strike in the east, thousands of homes evacuated, people living on pirogues Bumba (Agenzia Fides)- The consequences of climate change are ever more serious in Africa. After Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea now the eastern regions of Democratic Congo are being devastated by torrential rains a ...
• 13 December 2006
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Commemoration of 60 Loyola Jesuit College students killed a year ago in Port Harcourt air-crash Abuja (Agenzia Fides)- A special Mass was celebrated on Sunday 10 December for the repose of the souls of the 60 students at Loyola Jesuit College Karu, Abuja (Nigeria) killed a year ago in an air crash in Port Harcourt ...
• 13 December 2006
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Holy See Permanent Observer to the United Nations and the International Organizations attends 4th Special Session of UN Human Rights Council: “The victims are not just statistics; they are real people. Indeed the priority is action to end the killings and the abuses over political arrangements and commercial interests.” Geneva (Agenzia Fides) -“For three years already the Holy See has been following with grave concern the terrible suffering of the people caught up in the tragic conflicts intermittently erupting in the Darfur region o ...