Africa

• 5 October 2004
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - “A year after Annalena Tonelli’s death, her life’s work is more than ever alive”: Bishop Bertin of Djibouti recalls the Italian doctor dedicated to caring for TB sufferers in northern Somalia Rome (Fides Service)- “Annalena Tonelli’s work continues beyond all expectations” Bishop Giorgio Bertin, Bishop of Djibouti and Administrator Apostolic Mogadishu told Fides, referring to the Italian doctor killed a ...
• 5 October 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “Street children are hunted” Salesian fathers give details of massacres in southern Congo Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “Street children are hunted here and probably between 20 and 30 of them have already been killed” a Salesian missionary in the south eastern Congo region of Kasai where a group of street chi ...
• 5 October 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Eucharist, Jesus source of Life and Peace in the heart of Africa. Sacramentini Fathers open Eucharistic Spirituality Centre in Kinshasa Kinshasa (Fides Service)- To ensure that the Eucharist, source of Life and Peace, is at the heart of Africa and to help Christian communities focus on the Eucharist the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament has opened a ...
• 1 October 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - 10 million dollar programme to disarm rebels fails, only 32 men hand weapons to UN troops. UN mission in eastern Congo expires today. Towards an agreement to extend its mandate and boost its numbers Kinshasa (Fides Service) - A French proposal to send another 5,900 UN peacekeepers to Congo and extend its mandate has met with approval. The UN mission in Congo MONUC, consisting of 10,500 men deployed in the east of th ...
• 1 October 2004
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - “Referendum on new Constitution postponed for technical reasons” according to Fides sources Bujumbura (Fides Service) -“The referendum on the new Constitution was postponed for reasons which were purely technical and have nothing to do with politics” local sources in Bujumbura, capital Burundi, told Fides w ...
• 30 September 2004
  AFRICA - World Food Programme warns: 2 million people in 3 southern African countries face food emergency early next year Rome (Fides Service) - The World Food Programme has appealed for 78 million US dollars to guarantee emergency food aid to about 2 million people in Lesotho, Malawi and Swaziland, three small nations in southern Africa. A ...
• 30 September 2004
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - UNHCR starts repatriation of 340,000 Liberians. The largest repatriation programme as yet Rome (Fides Service)- A three-year programme to help the return to Liberia of about 340,000 refugees, who fled the country because of 14 years of civil war, starts on Friday 1 October. This is the largest such programme ...
• 29 September 2004
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Niger Delta twixt oil and Ijaw claims Lagos (Fides Service)- The leader of a Nigerian rebel group which threaten to sabotage oil production in Niger Delta is in Abuja, capital of Nigeria, for talks with the government. Mujahid Dokubo Asari, leader “Nige ...
• 28 September 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “Darfur is not the only tragedy, all over Sudan the situation is precarious and dangerous, Bishop Gassis Catholic Bishop of El Obeid tells Fides Rome (Fides Service)- “The world is rightly concerned for the situation in Darfur, but that tragedy threatens to make people forget there are other crisis areas in Sudan” Bishop Macram Max Gassis, Catholic Bishop of ...
• 28 September 2004
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Catholic Bishops of Nigeria: “We thank God that more lay Christians are becoming involved in politics” Lagos (Fides Service)- “We thank God that more lay Christians are becoming involved in politics and are occupying various posts. We congratulate those of them who have been trying to be true witnesses of justice and pe ...
• 27 September 2004
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Uganda will host 15th plenary assembly of the Catholic Bishops of East Africa Kampala (Fides)- Uganda will host the next Plenary Assembly of AMECEAthe Association of Bishops’ Conferences of East Africa . According to CISA Catholic news agency in Nairobi Kenya, the Ugandan Bishops are preparing t ...
• 27 September 2004
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Mine fields prevent return of Angolan refugees difficult: air lifts to repatriate 4,000 from Namibia Rome (Fides Service) - The first in a series of air lifts to repatriate Angolan refugees to Huambo in central Angola organised by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in collaboration with the International Or ...
• 24 September 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “Jihad is exploited to subdue rebel ethnic groups” says a missionary with years of experience in Sudan Khartoum (Fides Service)- “The government of Sudan is used to playing with names in this case it is pulling the wool over the eyes of the international community” a missionary with years of experience in Sudan told ...
• 24 September 2004
  AFRICA - Uganda, Rwanda and Democratic Congo sign agreement to hasten peace in the Great Lakes region of Africa where 6 million people have been killed in the past 10 years Kinshasa (Fides Service) - Diplomatic initiatives to restore peace in the Great Lakes region of Africa, the scene of years of civil war in Democratic Congo and Burundi continue. Following an agreement between Rwanda and ...
• 23 September 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Fresh outbreak of fighting in north east of Congo causes another exodus of villagers. “The fighting is getting nearer to Goma, the rebel stronghold” local sources told Fides Bukavu (Fides Service) - More than 15,000 people have abandoned their homes because of a fresh outbreak of violence in the south of the eastern Kivu region of Democratic Congo, according to the United Nations Mission in ...