Africa

• 13 January 2005
  AFRICA/KENYA - 19 killed in clashes: tribal strife or something more? Nairobi (Fides Service)- 19 people were killed and many injured in recent tribal clashes in the semi-desert province of north east Kenya. Some of the injured were transported by air to Nairobi for treatment at the Kenya ...
• 13 January 2005
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Now peace has come 750,000 children in southern Sudan need schooling, say Italian volunteers Rome (Fides Service)- “Now peace has been made what is needed is education!” Italian development volunteers members of AVSI association of volunteers for international development operating in Sudan said after the re ...
• 12 January 2005
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Burundi famine alarm in north east. Thousands face food shortage. Tsunami and other emergencies test solidarity among peoples Bujumbura (Fides Service) - A hunger alarm has been raised in northern Burundi. The government in Bujumbura says dozens are dying and thousands are in danger of starving to death in the provinces of Kirundo in the north ...
• 11 January 2005
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - African Union in favour of Ivory Coast referendum on Constitution “but rebels in the north disagree and seem to reject any idea of a united country” say Fides sources Abidjan (Fides Service)- “I doubt conditions are right for the return of peace in Ivory Coast, indeed we see worrying signals which seem to indicate the continuation of the division of the nation” a missionary in the ...
• 11 January 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Tension in Democratic Congo for possible postponement of elections. Situation in the east still critical. Catholic Bishop of Butembo-Beni says “150,000 people without humanitarian assistance. European Union must intervene” Kinshasa (Fides Service)- Tension is high in Kinshasa, capital of Democratic Congo where yesterday 10 January at least four people were killed in clashes during a protest against possible postponement of political electi ...
• 10 January 2005
  AFRICA - Darfur, Ivory Coast, Democratic Congo: three crisis areas focal points of African Union Peace and Security Council Summit in Gabon Libreville (Fides Service)- Heads of state and members of the African Union Peace and Security Council AUPSC will attend a summit meeting, today 10 January and tomorrow January 11, in Libreville, capital of Gabon to disc ...
• 10 January 2005
  AFRICA/SUDAN - What peace for Sudan? Southern Sudan is not Darfur Rome (Fides Service) - Peace signed yesterday in Kenya, marks the end of more than 20 years of war in southern Sudan, but this conflict must not be confused with the war still going on in the western Sudanese region of D ...
• 8 January 2005
  AFRICA/SUDAN - History making signing of peace agreement for Southern Sudan. But still no solution for Darfur drama Rome (Fides Service)- All is ready at the sports stadium in Nairobi capital of Kenya, for the signing of a history making agreement for peace between the Khartoum government and leaders of the former rebel movement Sudan ...
• 7 January 2005
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Somalia: tsunami. “Tragedy worsened by non-existent state administration” Bishop Bertin, Apostolic Administrator Mogadishu told Fides Rome (Fides Service) - Some African countries were also affected by the December 26 seaquake. The most serious situation is in Somalia at Rafi Hafun in the north eastern region of Bari also called Migiurtina. “At least ...
• 5 January 2005
  AFRIKA/KENYA - Catholic parishioners in Nairobi slums make special collection for seaquake victims in south east Asia: “they know what it means to sleep with an empty stomach” Nairobi (Fides Service) - Parishioners at Christ the King Catholic church in Kibera, Nairobi gave generously to a special collection to alleviate the suffering of victims of the terrible seaquake which struck south east ...
• 22 December 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO- UN peacekeepers prevent third war in Congo. Missionaries wish tormented country a Christmas of peace Bukavu ( Fides Service)- “At last the UN mission MONUC has acted and prevented what everyone feared would be a third war in Congo” a local source in Bukavu, main town of south Kivu eastern Democratic Congo, told Fide ...
• 22 December 2004
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - After lengthy counting of votes FRELIMO is declared the winner. Jimmy Carter and other international observers denounce irregularities. The new President confirms policy for national peace Maputo (Fides Service) - Armando Guebuza member of the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO) party in power for 20 years, won presidential elections with almost 64% of the votes. The result was announced yeste ...
• 21 December 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Darfur: break down in negotiations. Caritas Internationalis worker sends dramatic testimony on life in refugee camps in this region: “situation is “schizophrenic”:” Khartoum (Fides Service)- There has been another break down in negotiations for peace in Darfur: the last session is today 21 December in Abuja, capital of Nigeria. African Union mediator, Nigerian President Olesegun Oba ...
• 20 December 2004
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Car ambush in Paronga northern Uganda, Parish priest injured, government worker and wife of catechist killed: “Blood at Christmas again this year” a missionary told Fides Gulu (Fides Service)- “Blood at Christmas again this year” a missionary in northern Uganda told Fides from northern Uganda where a parish priest was injured during a car ambush this morning 20 December and two other ...
• 20 December 2004
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Increasing Islamic fundamentalist anti-Christian pressure. “No Christmas Mass if anti-Christian violence does not stop Cairo (Fides Service)- An unusual Christmas. This is how a Fides source in Cairo describes the Christmas about to be lived by Christians in Egypt where anti-Christian pressure from Islamic fundamentalism increases with e ...