Africa

• 22 October 2003
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - “MURDER OF INTERNATIONAL RADIO FRANCE SYMPTOM OF CLIMATE OF VIOLENCE AND SUSPICION INTO WHICH IVORY COAST HAS BEEN PLUNGED” Abidjan (Fides Service) – Police have arrested a member of the security forces with regard to the death of Ms Jean Helene, Radio France International reporter, killed in circumstances still to be clarified on 21 Octobe ...
• 21 October 2003
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - INFO: 10 YEARS OF WAR Bujumbura (Fides Service) – More than 300,000 civilians killed in ten years of war in Burundi, which broke out on 21 October 1993, when a group of rebel militia assassinated Melchior Ndadaye, first president of Burundi ...
• 21 October 2003
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - PEACE PROSPECTS AFTER TEN YEARS OF WAR Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides)- “This is perhaps the most serious effort to restore peace in Burundi” a local Church source in Bujumbura, who remains unnamed for security reasons, told Fides Service, referring to peace ag ...
• 21 October 2003
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - HUMANITARIAN WORKERS IN SOMALIA TARGETED AGAIN: TWO BRITISH VOLUNTEERS FOUND DEAD ...
• 21 October 2003
  AFRICA/SUDAN - AT LEAST 100 DEAD AND 15,000 HOMELESS AFTER ATTACKS ON FIFTEEN VILLAGES IN WESTERN SUDAN Khartoum (Fides Service) – At least 100 people were killed and 15,000 forced to flee their homes when groups of armed bandits attacked 15 villages and torched homes in western Sudan. (Fides Service 21/10/2003 EM lines ...
• 21 October 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - KINSHASA NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE NOT THREATENED BY FLOODS SAY EXPERTS, BUT RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL COULD BE STOLEN Kinshasa (Fides Service) – There is no danger of erosion at the CRENK Regional Centre for Nuclear Studies adjoining Kinshasa University, DIA local Catholic news service reports. Experts say although the Centre is in a ...
• 20 October 2003
  AFRICA/MALAWI - FOOD EMERGENCY ACUTE SITUATION OVER. BUT POOREST PEOPLE STILL AT RISK. CATHOLICS OFFER FULL AID COMMITMENT Lilongwe (Fides Service) - Zambia and Malawi have overcome the acute stage of a serious food crisis affecting various southern African countries. In fact the UN World Food Programme WFP reports that cereal harvests were ...
• 18 October 2003
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - MISSION SUNDAY: REMEMBERING POPE JOHN PAUL II’S VISIT AND CELEBRATING HIS 25TH YEAR OF PONTIFICATE Dar es Salaam (Fides Service) – “Now it is your turn to be witnesses of Christ in Moshi diocese, in Tanzania the continent of Africa and to the ends of the earth”. These were Pope John Paul II’s stirring words du ...
• 15 October 2003
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - NO END TO VIOLENCE IN BURUNDI. IS PEACE PROCESS REAL OR PRETEND? Bujumbura (Fides Service) – “By now we are hardly surprised to hear every morning reports of violence during the previous night” a missionary in Bujumbura tells Fides Service. Dozens have been killed in night time ...
• 15 October 2003
  AFRICA/CONGO - LOCAL CHURCH STEPS OUT TO PROMOTE DEMOCRACY: 47,000 ANIMATORS TO DISTRIBUTE PEACE EDUCATION KITS TO BASIC CHURCH COMMUNITIES AND PARISHES Kinshasa (Fides Service) – The Catholic Church in Democratic Congo is giving a hand to support the national transition process with peace education in basic Church communities to sow a culture of peace in all hearts. A ...
• 15 October 2003
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - ALTHOUGH A TRAGEDY, ANNALENA TONELLI’S MURDER BRINGS TO LIGHT SELFLESS SERVICE OF VOLUNTEERS IN SOMALILAND, ALL AFRICA AND ALL OVER THE WORLD, SAY PREVIOUS WINNERS OF THE NANSEN AWARD ASSIGNED THIS YEAR TO THE ITALIAN VOLUNTEER Rome (Fides Service) – Following the murder of the Italian voluntary health worker in Somalia, other Nansen Award winners have launched an appeal for more protection for humanitarian workers. In June 2003 Dr Tonelli re ...
• 13 October 2003
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - OPPOSITION TO PRESIDENT MUGABE ANNOUNCES WAVE OF STRIKES TO PROTEST GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC POLICY WHICH HAD LED THE COUNTRY TO COLLAPSE Harare (Fides Service) – In Zimbabwe the Opposition is planning series of strikes to protest against President Robert Mugabe’s economic policies. “The country is collapsing” opposition leaders say “the people ...
• 13 October 2003
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - CARDINAL SEPE CLOSES SECAM/SCEAM PLENARY: CHURCH IN AFRICA EVANGELISE YOURSELF AND HELP WITH THE CHURCH’S UNIVERSAL MISSION Dakar (Fides Service) – The Plenary of the Symposium of Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of Africa and Madagascar SCEAM/SECAM held in Dakar, Senegal attended by 150 Bishop delegates of African Bishops’ Conferences cl ...
• 10 October 2003
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - COUP FOILED. REBEL MILITARY CHIEF COMMITS SUICIDE IN PRISON Ouagadougou (Fides Service) – An attempted military coup in Burkina Faso was foiled. According to local sources contacted by Fides Service in Ouagadougou the capital, the police have arrested 12 soldiers of the Preside ...
• 10 October 2003
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - CASAMANCE SECESSIONISTS SAY “ THE WAR HAS ENDED”. PEACE IS NEARER BUT BEFORE WE CAN SPEAK OF PEACE WE MUST WAIT FOR THE RECONCILIATION COMMISSION TO FINISH ITS WORK Dakar (Fides Service) – After 21 years the war over secession for Senegal’s Casamance region territory inserted between the Gambia and Guinea Bissau, has come to an end. The announcement was made by Jean-Marie Biagui ...