Africa

• 3 November 2003
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - MILITARY PARADE ENDS IN TRAGEDY: 200 INJURED INCLUDING 13 SUFFERING FROM SEVERE BURNS Ouagadougou (Fides Service)- “It was a tragedy and we express our deepest sympathy while ensuring our prayers for the injured and the families”, a local Church source in Burkina Faso tells Fides after the fire which ...
• 31 October 2003
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN WARN TAYLOR TO STOP EFFORTS TO DESTABILISE SIERRA LEONE Freetown (Fides Service )- The United States and Great Britain have issued a severe warning to former Liberian President Charles Taylor. The two countries say they will take Taylor before a Special Court in Freetown to ...
• 31 October 2003
  AFRICA/CHAD - BISHOPS OF CENTRAL AFRICA: “THE OIL IN OUR COUNTRIES MUST BE USED FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR PEOPLE ” N’Djamena (Fides Service)- Catholic Bishops in Central Africa say that oil revenue must go to the people of Africa. The Justice and Peace Commission of ACERAC Association of Catholic Bishops’ Conferences has organise ...
• 30 October 2003
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - AFRICAN WOMEN UNITED IN THE STRUGGLE WITH AIDS. SISTER 2 SISTER MEETS FOR SECOND TIME IN SOUTH AFRICA Cape Town (Fides Service)- “This is not the usual Conference on AIDS, it is more of a coming together of people, most of them women, who battle every day against this illness, often with very restricted means” Father ...
• 30 October 2003
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - MISSIONARIES SAY: WE SEE HATRED GROWING IN PEOPLE’S HEARTS. HOW DIFFICULT IT IS TO BUILD A CULTURE OF PEACE! Abidjan (Fides Service)- “Hatred continues to grow in hearts, while political leaders carry on with their discussions” say Missionaries in Ivory Coast still divided in army and rebel controlled zones since the outbre ...
• 30 October 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA - LORD's RESISTANCE ARMY REBELS KILL 13 CIVILIANS AND KIDNAP OTHERS Kampala (Fides Service ) - 13 civilians were beaten to death and many others abducted in a raid in northern Uganda by rebels of the LRA Lord’s Resistance Army yesterday 29 October in the Lira district. (Fides Service 3 ...
• 29 October 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - “RENEW LIBERIA’S POLITICAL CULTURE TO END CIVIL WAR ONCE AND FOR ALL” Monrovia (Fides Service)- “This is the usual ballet about appointments which weighs on the shoulders of the poor people” Father Mauro Armanino SMA Provincial tells Fides commenting the compromise reached between LURD ...
• 29 October 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - JESUIT REFUGEE SERVICE RESUMES ACTIVITY IN LIBERIA Monrovia (Fides Service)- Civil war in Liberia forced humanitarian workers to suspend, temporary aid programmes for numerous displaced persons in this west African country. The Jesuit Refugee Service JRS says in a statem ...
• 28 October 2003
  AFRICA/KENYA - INFRASTRUCTURES FOR DEVELOPMENT CENTRAL THEME OF NEPAD MEETING Nairobi (Fides Service)- Development policies in East Africa will be the main subject for discussion at the regional meeting of NEPAD New Partnership for Africa’s Development which opens tomorrow 29 October in Nairobi ...
• 28 October 2003
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - “JUSTICE AND TRANSPARENCY IN ELECTIONS”: IN VIEW OF IMMINENT POLL CATHOLIC BISHOPS ISSUE MESSAGE TO THE NATION Maputo (Fides Service)- “We call on all Mozambicans to reflect on the social and economic reality in which we live and to assume their duty to choose, by means of elections, candidates able to find solutions to the pro ...
• 27 October 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - AS NORMALITY GRADUALLY RETURNS IN CONGO RWANDAN ARMY STILL IN THE EASTERN REGION. 800 LOCAL BOYS RECRUITED FOR MILITARY TRAINING IN RWANDA Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “It is difficult to believe Rwanda’s statements denying the presence of troops in this part of Democratic Congo” say local missionaries in north Kivu where representatives of the civil so ...
• 27 October 2003
  AFRICA/SUDAN - SUDAN PEACE IN SIGHT BUT SOME MATTERS REMAIN TO BE SETTLED BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND REBELS Khartoum (Fides Service)- There are growing hopes that peace in Sudan may be in sight at last. US Secretary of State Colin Powell has said he is convinced that peace in Sudan will be signed before the end of the year, � ...
• 24 October 2003
  AFRICA/KENYA - ELEVEN AFRICAN HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT TO MEET IN NAIROBI TO DISCUSS HOW TO GUARANTEE LASTING DEVELOPMENT Nairobi (Fides Service) – Presidents or heads of government of Burundi, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Maurizio, Rwanda, Sudan, Somalia, Tanzania e Uganda, will meet on Wednesday 29 October in the capital of Kenya ...
• 23 October 2003
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - AFTER PROLONGED DROUGHT, TORRENTIAL RAINS: 15 MILLION, ONE QUARTER OF THE POPULATION, COULD DIE OF MALARIA BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) – Although good rains this year in Ethiopia may produce a good harvest, before the end of the year some 15 million of Ethiopia’s 66 million may die, not of hunger but of Malaria. This was ...
• 22 October 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - REBEL LEADERS AND TAYLOR’S MEN GRAB POSTS OF COMMAND; WAR CRIMES STILL GO UNPUNISHED Monrovia (Fides Service)-“The country seems to want change but those in command have not changed” Father Mauro Armanino, SMA, provincial Superior tells Fides with regard to the appointment of George Dweh president of ...