Africa

• 8 June 2004
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - Bukavu: situation of confusion persists after official withdrawal of guerrillas. “Vexation of civilians continues ” say local Fides sources Bukavu (Fides Service) - There is a climate of uncertainty and confusion in Bukavu the main town in the South Kivu region in the east of Democratic Congo, at the heart of a crisis which could throw the country back into ...
• 8 June 2004
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Disappointment in Malawi when an Opposition candidate joins President’s Party Lilongwe (Fides Service)- There is widespread disappointment in Malawi after an Opposition leader Gwanda Chakuamba, announced he had joined the party in power United Democratic Front UDF. Chakuamba came third in presiden ...
• 8 June 2004
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Is peace ever further way in Ivory Coast? Fighting in the north, fierce protest in the economic capital Abidjan (Fides Service)-“Perhaps we are back to where we started. The peace agreement has been practically annulled” say local Fides sources in Abidjan, economic capital of Ivory Coast. “The national unity interim ...
• 7 June 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Fresh fighting in Bukavu, martyr city in east Congo. Rwanda says it has closed its border with the Democratic Republic of Congo. Religious leaders call on politicians to stop the tragedy Bukavu (Fides Service)- There has been a fresh outburst of fighting in Bukavu, main city of southern Kivu in eastern Democratic Congo for weeks the scene of conflict between the regular army and rebels of the RCD-Goma (C ...
• 7 June 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Darfur: huge humanitarian tragedy. More than 2 million refugees and internally displaced persons Khartoum (Fides Service)- While the process for peace in Southern Sudan advances the emergency continues in the west region of Darfur, where fighting is causing tremendous suffering to civilians. On Saturday 5 June, in N ...
• 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and human rights activists” local sources inform Fides Bukavu (Fides Service)- “It is not true that the rebels have withdrawn.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 ...