Africa

• 23 July 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Feverish diplomatic activity to solve the crisis in Darfur. Possible resolution from the UN Security Council to impose sanctions on militia responsible for violence on civilians Rome (Fides Service)- International diplomacy is at work to end the tragedy in the western Sudan region of Darfur, where massacres of civilians continue. Today 23 July, both UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, and the US se ...
• 21 July 2004
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - The Angolan authorities oppose diamond trafficking with a new turn of screw. Is it an attack against one of the channels financing fundamentalist Muslim terrorism? An exclusive report from Fides Luanda (Fides Agency)- The Angolan government strikes again against illegal diamond trafficking with a new turn of screw. According to Fides Agency sources, “in the night between July 14th and 15th, the police in Cafun ...
• 21 July 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - New clashes in the Kivu region, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo Kinshasa (Fides Agency) - Fighting still goes on in Kalehe, a place 40 km north of Bukavu, the district capital of Southern Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. “We heard of fighting between the force ...
• 21 July 2004
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - “Arms’ recovery in Liberia is connected to the one in Cote d’Ivoire” says commander of the UN troops in Liberia. The Fides dossier of Saturday July 24th shall look into the problem of light weapons’ proliferation in Africa Monrovia (Fides Agency) - “I can assure you that by the end of our mission to Liberia we will have collected all weapons, but Liberia remains a Country in danger if weapons are left in the wrong hands in Cote d’Ivoir ...
• 16 July 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Sudan and its wars: less conventional arms (hunger) less conventional soldiers (children). Fides spoke to Mill Hill missionary who has just published a book on Sudan and its conflicts “Travelling With Soldiers and Bishops” Khartoum (Fides)- “The civil war in Sudan is a complex war. It is too simple to describe it as a conflict between ideologies of North and South ” Mill Hill missionary Fr Mathew Haumann in Sudan told Fides. Fr Haumann ...
• 16 July 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Pastoral and social-charity work in Popokabaka diocese south west Congo Kinshasa (Fides Service)- Schools, medical centres and soon a Radio station are the main services offered by the Catholic diocese of Popokabaka in south west Congo, according to the local Catholic news agency DIA. Pop ...
• 16 July 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Peace talks for Darfur start in Ethiopia S. Egidio community observers among those present Rome (Fides Service)- “The fact that the talks are taking place is already a good sign” Vittorio Scelzo, a S. Egidio Observer to a meeting between the government of Sudan and the two rebel movements fighting governme ...
• 15 July 2004
  AFRICA/KENYA - Amidst drought and corruption Kenya’s political crisis deepens Nairobi (Fides Service) - The President of Kenya, Mwai Kibaki has warned of the threat of drought but his call was all but ignored by the local media more interested in the debate in course since the British representati ...
• 15 July 2004
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Former East German factory workers occupy German Embassy in Maputo for a few hours Maputo (Fides Service)- The occupation of the German embassy in Maputo by a group of forty people was “a demonstration out of exasperation over a situation of impasse which has dragged on for years ” according to loc ...
• 15 July 2004
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Spreading drug abuse is a concern but the major problem in Sierra Leone is unemployment” a missionary tells Fides Freetown (Fides Service)- “The main problem in Sierra Leone is that there is no work. Drug abuse is an issue but not the main one” Father Giuseppe Berton, Italian Xaverian mission in Freetown, capital of Sierra Leone ...
• 14 July 2004
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Italian television programme speaks of food discrimination against women in Ethiopia Addis Abeba (Fides Service)- “Women suffer from discrimination even in tragic stiatuions of food shortage which periodically strike Ehtiopia”, Sr Elisa, an Italian Salesian missionary told Italian television. The nun ...
• 14 July 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Tertio Millennio International Missiology Congress: the future of missionary activity ad gentes prospects for the 21st century Kinshasa (Fides Service) - On the 40th anniversary of the Ad Gentes Decree issued by Vatican II and the 10th anniversary of the Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for Africa, the Bishops’ Conference of Congo has ...
• 14 July 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “An attempt destined to failure” Congo MP Enoch Sebineza tells Fides, commententing self-dismissal of 8 Banyamulenge hard wing National Assembly members Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “They are isolated persons risking an all out attempt. Unless they are backed by some foreign power they will not achieve much or go very far. The majority of the Banyamulenge disapproves of t ...
• 14 July 2004
  AFRICA - From South Africa and Nigeria examples to re-launch collaboration among all the countries of Africa Rome (Fides Service)- One of the evils of Africa is lack of collaboration among the states of the continent. This is due partly to the heritage of colonial times. Territories administered by Europeans were connected with ...
• 14 July 2004
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Girls of different ages tell their story of forced marriage and escape Ouagadougou (Fides Service)- “With the excuse of local customs women are forced into marriage without their consent. The story was told on Italian television by Esther Marie Judith of the Association of Women’s Right ...