Africa

• 30 August 2004
  AFRICA - AVSI helps Africa (Associazione Volontari per il Servizio Internazionale): rehabilitation of child soldiers, professional training, feeding programmes, farming programmes Rome (Fides Service) - For twenty years an Italian lay volunteer organisation AVSI, Associazione Volontari per il Servizio Internazionale has worked silently and diligently to alleviate suffering and to promote developme ...
• 30 July 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The situation in Darfur shows no sign of improvment: no food supplies since the end of May Rome (Fides Service) - A nutrition survey in May and June in 4 refugee camps in Darfur revealed serious situation of under-nourishment varying between 4.1 and 5.5 %. Although world politics and media are showing more i ...
• 30 July 2004
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Ugandan Religious report to Parliament on war in northern Uganda Kampala (Fides Service)- As a “sign of concern for the people in the north victims of civil war” Catholic Religious in Uganda recently presented the national parliament with a report on the war in northern Uganda. Th ...
• 30 July 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Caritas- Mbujimayi brings relief to humanitarian crisis in Kasai, southeast Congo Kinshasa (Fides Service)- The second Congolese war (1998-2003) affected mainly the eastern regions of Democratic Congo RDC, including east Kasai in the south east of the country where in recent years thousands of people ...
• 29 July 2004
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - More clashes in east Congo. Fides say reported figure of 300,000 displaced persons is exaggerated Bukavu (Fides Service)- The situation is uncertain and confused in South Kivu, the eastern region of Democratic Congo where, according to international media sources, more than 300,000 people are fleeing Kahele, 60 km fr ...
• 28 July 2004
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - At Soddo in southern Ethiopia, Capuchin Fathers run Crafts School backed by Italian Confederation of Craftsmen Addis Ababa (Fides Service)- “Ever year 100 young people learn a trade or craft at our Professional Training Institute at Soddo, 400 km south of Addis Ababa” said Father Gianfranco, head of the Capuchin Marche Provin ...
• 27 July 2004
  AFRICA/UGANDA - “Thank you Holy Father for remembering the war in northern Uganda” says Archbishop Odama of Gulu through Fides Gulu (Fides Service)- “ Thank you Holy Father! The appeal launched by the Pope for the fighting to stop in northern Uganda and Sudan is an important contribution for peace”, Archbishop John Baptist Odama , Archbishop ...
• 27 July 2004
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - “Mercenaries ready to intervene in east Congo” say Fides sources in Bukavu Bukavu (Fides Service)-“At the moment all is calm but for how long?” local observers in Bukavu, main town in the eastern Kivu region of Democratic Congo told Fides over the phone. “There are rumours of fighting alo ...
• 27 July 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Sacred Heart Missionaries mark 80 years of mission in Democratic Congo: an anniversary under the banner of hope Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “Our place is with the people, sharing their poverty, helping to restore their hope, because life goes on”: this is how the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart see their mission in a booklet pu ...
• 26 July 2004
  AFRICA/CHAD - Darfur: situation ever more critical for refugees in Chad. “two refugees killed in camp in Chad ” says UN High Commission for Refugees Rome (Fides Service)- “The situation of Sudanese refugees in Farchana camp in east Chad is critical” United Nations High Commission for Refugees said in a statement dated 22 July. According to UNHCR two people were k ...
• 23 July 2004
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Fides has received more details on the expulsion by the Angolan Authorities of illegal diamond seekers; a trade said to serve Muslim fundamentalist terrorists and greedy religious sects Luanda (Fides Service)- Fides has received more details on illegal diamond seekers expelled by Angolan authorities (see Fides 21 July 2004). Local Fides sources say “it has been confirmed that the Angolan police arrest ...
• 23 July 2004
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Disappointment and concern in Burundi after talks in South Africa between Burundian parties fail Bujumbura (Fides Service)- Disappointment and profound concern are the predominant feelings of reaction to the failure of talks between Burundi’s political parties held in Pretoria, South Africa (see Fides 19 July 2004 ...
• 23 July 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Feverish diplomatic activity to solve the crisis in Darfur. Possible resolution from the UN Security Council to impose sanctions on militia responsible for violence on civilians Rome (Fides Service)- International diplomacy is at work to end the tragedy in the western Sudan region of Darfur, where massacres of civilians continue. Today 23 July, both UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, and the US se ...
• 21 July 2004
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - The Angolan authorities oppose diamond trafficking with a new turn of screw. Is it an attack against one of the channels financing fundamentalist Muslim terrorism? An exclusive report from Fides Luanda (Fides Agency)- The Angolan government strikes again against illegal diamond trafficking with a new turn of screw. According to Fides Agency sources, “in the night between July 14th and 15th, the police in Cafun ...
• 21 July 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - New clashes in the Kivu region, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo Kinshasa (Fides Agency) - Fighting still goes on in Kalehe, a place 40 km north of Bukavu, the district capital of Southern Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. “We heard of fighting between the force ...