Africa

• 5 June 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - People of Bukavu live in terror. “Manhunt for journalists and human rights activists” local sources inform Fides Bukavu (Fides Service)- “It is not true that the rebels have withdrawn. They are still present in at least five districts of Bukavu” local sources told Fides in Bukavu, southern Kivu, in eastern Congo taken by rebels ...
• 5 June 2004
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - Bukavu chronology of a tragedy. Another war imminent in Congo? Bukavu (Fides Service)- Bukavu, a city with a population of 500,000, the main centre of southern Kivu situated on lake Kivu not far from the border, is at the heart of a new Congolese tragedy of which we give a brief chr ...
• 4 June 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “The rebels have not withdrawn from Bukavu and they continue to terrorise the people ” local sources in the eastern city of Congo report Bukavu (Fides Service)-“The rebels soldiers say they have withdrawn but this is not true. They have simply concentrated their troops in a few points, particularly near to a parish in the north of the city between a bee ...
• 3 June 2004
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - The Congolese Bishops express alarm for the hundred thousand Congolese expelled from Angola and forced to survive in desperate conditions in southern Congo. Kinshasa (Fides Agency) - The Congolese Bishops express their alarm for the Congolese people driven out of Angola (see Fides April 21st and April 26th, 2004). DIA Catholic Agency says that Bishops of the Ecclesiastic Pro ...
• 3 June 2004
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - Bukavu. Enraged crowd plunders UN offices in four Congolese cities, accusing international troops of not having defended east Congo cities from the guerrilla Kinshasa (Fides Agnecy) - An enraged crowd has attacked UN headquarters in four cities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (RDC). The demonstrators accuse UN forces of not having prevented occupation of Bukavu, in northe ...
• 2 June 2004
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bukavu: Fighting has broken out once again and Radio Maria has been hit. The situation is becoming increasingly serious in Eastern Congo. Bukavu (Fides Agency) - Fighting has broken out once again in Bukavu, a city in northern Kivu region, in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo (RDC), which has now been a prey to the fighting between the army loya ...
• 2 June 2004
  AFRICA/UGANDA - New rules for Nile water management are the focus of a meeting in Uganda. Kampala (Fides Agency) - The legal framework regulating the Nile basin is the focus of a meeting starting yesterday in Entebbe, in Uganda. The meeting gathers together the representatives of the ten countries overlooking ...
• 1 June 2004
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Quarrel among merchants caused clashes in Mogadishu in which at least 100 died Mogadishu (Fides Service) - A simple quarrel between merchants which degenerated into a real battle with heavy weapons. This was the scenario of recent clashes over recent days in Mogadishu; capital of Somalia, in which ...
• 1 June 2004
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - “Split among guerrillas besieging the city”: report from Fides sources in Bukavu in east Congo Bukavu (Fides Service)-“Two souls are emerging in the RCD-Goma (Union Congolese for Democracy, guerrillas connected with Rwanda), one extremist and one moderate” local sources in Bukavu, north Kivu in the Democratic ...
• 31 May 2004
  AFRICA/MOROCCO - “Cold and lucid strategies are behind the hands of terrorists” Father Lacunza, Rector of the Pontifical Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies Rome (Fides Service)- “Not force, but rather intelligence will conquer terrorism” Father Justo Balda Lacunza, Rector of the Pontifical Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies in Rome,, commenting the present situation ...
• 29 May 2004
  AFRICA/UGANDA - President of Holy See’s Council for Justice and Peace Cardinal Renato Martino visits war torn Uganda: solemn Mass on June 3 to commemorate Ugandan Martyrs. Vatican City (Fides Service) - The President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Cardinal Renato R. Martino will visit Gulu, Kalongo and Kitgum three towns in war torn northern area of Uganda. The main purpo ...
• 29 May 2004
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - A forgotten war. “The Church has no political interest in the crisis in Cabinda, but it cannot remain silent in the face of the tragedy afflicting the people ” says Catholic Vicar General of Cabinda diocese Rome (Fides Service)- “We must emphasise that the Church’s activity is always pastoral, never political ” Mgr Raul Tati, Vicar General of the diocese of Cabinda, said in his intervention at a two day Seminar held 2 ...
• 28 May 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN Now that southern Sudan war has ended, tragedy in Darfur must not be forgotten Roma (Fides Service)- Although a peace agreement has ended the war in southern Sudan (see Fides 27 May 2004), the conflict in the western Sudan region of Darfur is still a tragic reality. In Darfur Arab government, mili ...
• 28 May 2004
  AFRICA/SWAZILAND - Letter from the African forest: Italian missionary Father Angelo Ciccone fifty years of giving lepers love and hope Mzimpofu (Fides Service) - The precarious conditions which missionaries face in the mission territory to which they are called does not undermine their determination to serve their brothers and sisters in need, indeed th ...
• 27 May 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Points of peace agreement signed yesterday ending civil war in southern Sudan. Conflict in western region of Darfur still unsolved. Khartoum (Fides Service)- An agreement to end more than twenty years of civil war between the Sudanese government and SPLA Sudan Peoples Liberation Army was finally signed yesterday 26 May at Naivasha, some 70 km from th ...