Africa

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  7 December 2022
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Three people detained in the US accused of financing separatist activities, including the kidnapping of Cardinal Tumi Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - The separatist conflict between the two English-speaking regions of Cameroon has an international dimension that has not yet been fully revealed. Last week, the US Department of Justice arreste ...
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  7 December 2022
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The answer to the prayers of the population arrives in the country that has never known peace Tombura Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - "The announcement of the Holy Father's visit is an answer to our prayer. The entire population of Sudan and South Sudan awaits the the Successor of Peter to come and step on the soil of o ...
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  6 December 2022
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Upper Nile: More than six thousand people forced to flee after the assault on the Aburoch reception camp Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "Here the fighting is very heavy and it is difficult to see the light of peace", explains to Fides Sr. Elena Balatti, Comboni missionary in charge of Caritas in the diocese of Malakal, in the Upper ...
• 6 December 2022
  AFRICA/MALI - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Rev. Jacques Damobe Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On September 22, 2022, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle appointed Rev. Jacques Damobe, of the archdiocesan clergy of Bamako as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in M ...
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  5 December 2022
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Thousands of people take part in the bishops' march for peace in the east of the country Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Our march has no political meaning, it aims to show the world that we are one people, united for the national cause, united for the sovereignty of our country and for the dignity of our people ...
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  5 December 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Disengagement of the Tigrinya forces: silence of arms for a peaceful return to daily life Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - The diplomatic breakthrough that led to the signing of the peace agreement on November 2 in South Africa and the disarmament agreement of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), signed ...
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  3 December 2022
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - National mourning for the massacre in a village in the east of the country; Sunday march for peace convened by the Bishops Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Three days of national mourning starting today, December 3, have been announced by Félix Tshisekedi, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, to commemorate the victims of the massacre i ...
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  3 December 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - In Tigray, disarmament is ready, but subject to the withdrawal of Eritrean and Amhara forces from the region Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - While efforts continue in Ethiopia to try to normalize the situation in Tigray after the signing of the peace accords on November 3, there are difficulties for a real disarmament of the part ...
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  2 December 2022
  AFRICA/GHANA - Ghana, so far spared from jihadist attacks, questions the threat of terrorism in the region Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "Dialogue has the potential to be a continuous stimulus for a greater understanding of the truth", said Fr. Lazarus Anondee, Secretary General of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Ghana (GCBC), ...
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  1 December 2022
  AFRICA/NIGER - Zankey Handuriya: the children's star, a small light of hope for blind children Dosso (Agenzia Fides) - After a year, Father Rafael Casamayor, together with two of his collaborators, managed to return to Gaya and spend some time with the blind children of the inclusive Catholic school in the city th ...
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  30 November 2022
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - More and more women in migratory flows: a conference in Ouagadougou Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - More and more women are part of the migratory flows from Africa. This is what emerges from the conference "Women, gender and migration" which is being held in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina ...
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  30 November 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Simple gestures of silent and providential charity towards the poor Robe (Agenzia Fides) - Adaba and then Dodola, Kofale, Robe, Addis Ababa, Gode, it is among these missions that Fr. Angelo Antolini, ofm cap., Apostolic Prefect of Robe, spends his journey of evangelization always close ...
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  29 November 2022
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Tribal conflicts aggravate the state of emergency Karthoum (Agenzia Fides) - The food crisis that causes deaths from hunger (see Fides 10/10/2022) in large areas of the tormented country is aggravated by continuous episodes of violence, especially in Wad El Mahi in the ...
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  29 November 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Father Ochang and members of St. Jude's Society kidnapped on November 24 have been released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Father Peter Abang Ochang and his companions were released on the morning of Saturday, November 26. They are fine", said Fr Peter Abue, Vicar General of the diocese of Ogoja, confirming the relea ...
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  29 November 2022
  AFRICA/BENIN - Prayers and offerings. The exchange of gifts that supports the missionary openness of priestly vocations Klouékanmè (Agenzia Fides) - Contribute to the growth of a vocation, to its development so that the "seed" bears fruit. Many are those who, each year, contribute spiritually and economically, through the Pontifical Soc ...