Africa

• 11 September 2006
  AFRICA/CHAD - Jesuit Refugee Service resumes operations in Chad to help refugees from Darfur N’Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - This month Mateo Aguirre SJ, director of JRS West Africa with Joaquín Ciervide SJ, new director of JRS Chad, will reopen the regional office of the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) in eastern C ...
• 11 September 2006
  AFRICA - “Africa: are we the next target for terrorism?”… African leaders wonder five years since the September 11th attacks Rome (Agenzia Fides)- Five years after the tragic events of that dramatic Tuesday in the skies of the United States, Africa is also beginning to come to terms with international terrorism. Terrorism which chose Africa ...
• 9 September 2006
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - “The number of people seeking hospital treatment for intoxication symptoms has not diminished” says a missionary in Abidjan: toxic waste nightmare continues Abidjan (Agenzia Fides)- “The number of people seeking hospital treatment for intoxication symptoms has not diminished”. For the moment street protests have stopped, but people are demanding free medicines to treat t ...
• 8 September 2006
  AFRICA/KENYA - Local Church drafts plan to stop violent cattle raids Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- “Only sustained mediation and development - not the use of force by State security personnel - can restore peace among traditionally hostile herding communities in Kenya’s Rift Valley Provinc ...
• 8 September 2006
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Popular national singer caught in political crisis Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides)- The political crisis in Malawi has hit even one of the country’s most popular singers Lucius Banda, now an Oppostion MP. “It was meant to be a joke he could have taken an English language te ...
• 8 September 2006
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Alarm for high mortality rate in one of the richest countries of Africa Luanda (Agenzia Fides)- Angola has the highest infant mortality rate in Portuguese speaking countries in Africa. According to the annual report of the United Nations Population Fund the infant death rate in Angola is 133 ...
• 7 September 2006
  AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE -Expectation with regard to new executive body after toxic waste ship scandal caused previous one to resign Abidjan (Agenzia Fides)- “Everyone is waiting to see whose in the next government, the list is due to be made public this afternoon” Fides learned from a Catholic source in Abidjan, economic capital of Côte d'Ivoire ...
• 6 September 2006
  AFRICA/GUINEA -UNHCR assisted repatriation of Liberian refugees from the Guinea region of Kissidougou has been completed Conakry (Agenzia Fides)- The last convoy voluntary repatriation programme for Liberian refugees in the Kissidougou region of Guinea organised by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees UNHCR has reached its desti ...
• 6 September 2006
  AFRICA/KENYA - Italian Education Science students get Summer experience in Kenya with Comboni organisation AMANI Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Eight students of Education Science at the Catholic University of Rome, spent a Summer period of experience in a district of the city of Nairobi, where their shared daily life with a group of child ...
• 6 September 2006
  AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - Country searching for a solution, elections postponed until October: what is needed is courage and decision in seeking a true and just peace” Abidjan (Agenzia Fides)- “The political path of Côte d'Ivoire is mapped out until late October when there will be elections, postponed for the umpteenth time. This postponement opened a debate on what direction to tak ...
• 5 September 2006
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Catholic Bishops of Southern Africa call for “more attention for psychological and spiritual treatment of AIDS orphans” Cape Town (Agenzia Fides) - During their recent Plenary Assembly in August the Catholic Bishops of Southern Africa voiced deep concern for the situation of AIDS orphans. “It is not only a questions of funds” the Bish ...
• 5 September 2006
  AFRICA/MALAWI - “Let’s hope cancellation of debts brings a new beginning because the economic situation is truly stagnant” says a Catholic missionary in Malawi Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides)- “News long awaited, Malawi’s foreign debt to be cancelled at last!” Malawi’s press titled on 2 September announcing the news of a 90% remission of the country’s foreign debt. “The am ...
• 5 September 2006
  AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - “Voters’ will must be respected” say leaders of the main religious confessions in D. R. Congo who call on the people not to listen to those who try to spread hatred Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Democratic Republic of Congo is still waiting to hear the results of elections held on 30 July. After clashes last week between troops loyal to outgoing president, Joseph Kabila and troops ...
• 1 September 2006
  AFRICA But still it moves! Not only Europe and the USA, also Latin America, Russia and Asia in Africa for business Rome (Agenzia Fides)- Africa for centuries economically tied to Europe and later with North America is spreading its economic connections to other parts of the world. These changes are due to new relations of economic po ...
• 31 August 2006
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Caritas programme to rehabilitate thousands of former combatants in north east Angola Luanda (Agenzia Fides)- Over a thousand former guerrillas belonging to the disbanded military wing of UNITA (National Union for Total Independence of Angola) are benefiting from an agricultural development programme run ...