Africa

• 13 November 2003
  AFRICA/KENYA - UNIVERSITY TEACHERS STRIKE: CATHOLIC BISHOPS URGE RESEARCHES AND GOVERNMENT TO THINK OF THE GOOD OF THE COUNTRY AT THIS TIME OF DIFFICULTY FOR ALL AFRICA Nairobi (Fides Service)- “The closing of all state universities in Kenya is a sad event” the Catholic Bishops of Kenya say in a statement with regard to a strike called by university assistants and researchers which ...
• 12 November 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA - EXCLUSIVE CONVERSATION WITH ARCHBISHOP ODAMA AFTER TALKS BETWEEN ACHOLI RELIGIOUS LEADERS IN NORTHERN UGANDA AND UN UNDER SECRETARY GENERAL FOR HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS Gulu (Fides Service)- “We were more than satisfied with the talks with the United Nations special envoy ” Archbishop John Baptist Odama Gulu, northern Uganda told Fides with regard to a meeting of representatives of ...
• 12 November 2003
  AFRICA/MAURITANIA - OFFICIAL RESULTS OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS Nouakchott (Fides Service )- According to official results, outgoing President Maaouiya Sid'Ahmed Ould Taya was re-elected with 66,7 % of votes place in Mauritania on 7 November (see Fides 8 November 2003). Taya, in po ...
• 12 November 2003
  AFRICA/SUDAN - GROWING CONCERN FOR RESETTLEMENT OF REFUGEES AND DISPLACED PERSONS AFTER SIGNING OF PEACE AGREEMENT Khartoum (Fides Service) – There is growing concern with regard to the return of Sudanese refugees from neighbouring countries. As the signing of a peace agreement between the Khartoum government and the SPLA Sudan Peo ...
• 11 November 2003
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - BOMBED BUJUMBURA NOW FEARS VAST SCALE OFFENSIVE BY HUTU WARRIORS ENCIRCLING CAPITAL Bujumbura (Fides Service)- “There is an atmosphere of unreal calm in the city charged with tension ” local Church sources in the Burundian capital Bujumbura tell Fides after a night of heavy bombing of north eastern ...
• 11 November 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “CONGOLESE GOVERNMENT AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY MUST TAKES STEPS TO STOP WAR WHICH HAS ALREADY TAKEN A DEATH TOLL OF THREE MILLION ” Kinshasa (Fides Service) - The Catholic Church in Democratic Congo continues to lift its voice in defence of peace and the victims of war. In a message issued at the end of a plenary assembly 2 - 8 November 2003 in Kinsh ...
• 10 November 2003
  AFRICA/UNITED NATIONS - UNITED NATIONS MAY PREFER MERCENARY SOLDIERS FOR PEACE KEEPING OPERATIONS IN 21ST CENTURY Rome (Fides Service )- Should the UN hire peacekeeping troops from Private Military Companies? This question was put by Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General to a group of experts whom he asked to examine the possibility of u ...
• 10 November 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA - KARAMOJA FORGOTTEN TRAGEDY: TOO MANY WEAPONS IN CIRCULATION GROWING INSECURITY Kampala (Fides Service ) - The LRA Lord’s Resistance Army is not the only group to kill and cause insecurity on Uganda’s roads. It is true the LRA sows terror in the northern district but another forgotten tragedy i ...
• 10 November 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA - DEATH OF LRA COMMANDER STILL A MYSTERY Kampala (Fides Service)- Mystery still surrounds the death of Charles Tubuley, second in command of the LRA (Lord’s Resistance Army). He was reportedly killed during fighting with the army last week (see Fides 5 Novemb ...
• 8 November 2003
  AFRICA/MAURITANIA - PRESIDENT TAYA IN THE LEAD AFTER PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS YESTERDAY Nouakchott (Fides Service)- President Maaouiya Sid'Ahmed Ould Taya appears to be in the lead in the count of votes placed during presidential elections yesterday 7 November in Mauritania. The first results give Taya 61% ...
• 7 November 2003
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - BELGIAN RESEARCHERS TRY RODENTS TO NEUTRALISE TRAGIC WAR HERITAGE OF LAND MINES Rome (Fides) - A group of Belgian researchers is working on a project to solve the problem of millions of land mines spread all over Africa. British daily The Guardian in its on line edition today, Friday 7 November 2003 ...
• 7 November 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - UN PEACEKEEPERS ATTACKED, ONE INJURED, IN BUNIA CAPITAL OF ITURI REGION. NORMALISATION IN NORTH CONGO SLOW IN RETURNING Bunia (Fides Service)- “Night time shooting battles have become a common thing” a local source in Bunia main town of north eastern region of Ituri in Democratic Congo tells Fides. Ituri has been the centre of a civil ...
• 7 November 2003
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - THOUSANDS TAKE TO THE STREETS CALLING FOR AN END TO POLITICAL VIOLENCE: “WE ARE ALL SENEGALESE, ALL BROTHERS AND SISTERS, WECANNOT KILL ONE ANOTHER ” Dakar (Fides Service)- “Yesterday’s protest took place peacefully and it was a demonstration of the Senegalese spirit of democracy ” a missionary in Dakar, Senegal tells Fides. Thousands gathered yesterday, 6 Novem ...
• 7 November 2003
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - DISASTROUS HEALTH CONDITIONS INFANT MORTALITY RATE 100/1000 (100 OUT OF EVERY 1000 DIE IN THE FIRST YEAR OF LIFE) Rome (Fides Service) – Disastrous sanitary conditions in Madagascar were aggravated during the years of war particularly with regard to children and health care. Seeing this situation the Lazzarist Fathers built a Vill ...
• 6 November 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA - PEACE IN UGANDA AND PEACE IN SUDAN ARE CONNECTED” SAYS ARCHBISHOP ODAMA OF GULU. REPORTED DEATH OF CATHOLIC PRIEST IN NORTHERN UGANDA DENIED Kampala (Fides Service)- “The path to peace in Sudan and the path to peace in Uganda are connected: national reconciliation in our great neighbour will certainly lead to positive developments here in Uganda” Archbish ...