Africa

• 9 September 2003
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - THROWING THE FIRST STONE AND THROWING THE FIRST SATELLITE Lagos (Fides Service) – Africa is more than ever today a land of contradiction, swinging between a search for modernity often imposed by the West and a return to old customs and laws which violate human rights. Emblem ...
• 9 September 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA - YET ANOTHER MISSIONARY ATTACKED IN NORTHERN UGANDA: ITALIAN COMBONI MISSIONARY FATHER MAFFEIS Kampala (Fides Service) – The conditions of Italian Comboni Missionary, Father Guglielmo Maffeis, attacked by bandits at Iceme Catholic Mission in northern Uganda on 6 September are improving, his confreres at Lira mis ...
• 8 September 2003
  AFRICA/RWANDA - KINYAMATEKA CATHOLIC PAPER COMMENTS ON RECENT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS Rome (Fides Service) – Rwandans gave a 95% victory to President Paul Kagame in elections on 25 August. We publish here an article on the vote printed in Kinyamateka Catholic paper in French. Here is our English transla ...
• 5 September 2003
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - SCHOOL ATTENDANCE RATE RISES DESPITE DIFFICULT ECONOMIC SITUATION Ouagadougou (Fides Service) - Burkina Faso, listed among the world’s poorest countries, is living one of the worst economic crisis in its history. In fact the number of Burkina people living below the poverty line in ...
• 5 September 2003
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - PEACE HAS DIFFICULTY GETTING STARTED, SPECTRE OF FOOD SHORTAGE IN REBEL CONTROLLED AREAS THREATENS Abidjan (Fides Service) – “The peace process has certainly come to an abrupt halt” a local Church source tells Fides Service after the discovery of a plan to assassinate President Gbagbo. The detection late last m ...
• 5 September 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - AT LAST EMPOWERED TO PROTECT CIVILIANS AND STOP FIGHTING BETWEEN REBEL GROUPS NEW UN MISSION DEPLOYED: BUT SOME WONDER WHY MOST ARE NON-FRENCH SPEAKING SOLDIERS Bunia (Fides Service) – “So far all the UN peacekeepers have done is to go on a fact-finding mission to Fataki” local sources in Bunia, main city of Ituri in Northern Congo, tell Fides Service. “UN Mission troops ...
• 4 September 2003
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - IN MAPUTO DOCTORS, NURSES, LABORATORY AND SOCIAL WORKERS ATTEND FIRST INTERNATIONAL COURSE ON DRUG RESOURCES ENHANCEMENT AGAINST AIDS Rome (Fides Service) - From 20 to 29 August 85 doctors, nurses social workers, laboratory workers and biology experts from Malawi, Tanzania, Angola, Guinea Bissau and Mozambique attended the first course in Drug Resourc ...
• 4 September 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - TAYLOR HAS GONE BUT HIS MILITIA ARE STILL RAMPANT. CONSOLATA MISSIONARIES LAUNCH APPEAL: “ FOOD SHORTAGE IN BUCHANAN NOW CRITICAL ” Monrovia (Fides Service)- “There is little or no food in Buchanan”, the Consolata missionaries in Harbel, 50 km south of Monrovia, capital of Liberia, tell Fides Service. Buchanan, the principal port, is about 90 km ...
• 4 September 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - CATHOLIC CHURCH DEEPLY CONCERNED FOR SITUATION KISANGANI, ONCE CONGO’S THIRD LARGEST CITY Kinshasa (Fides Service )- The Catholic Church in Congo has voiced deep concern for the situation in Kisangani, in the north eastern part of Democratic Congo. This is reported in the latest issue of DIA local church bull ...
• 4 September 2003
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - OPPOSITION ELECTION VICTORY SHOWS PEOPLE’S WILL FOR CHANGE Harare (Fides Service )- “The results of the recent municipal elections in Zimbabwe demonstrate that the people want a change, says a local Church source who asks not to be named for security reasons. Municipal electio ...
• 3 September 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA - ARCHBISHOP ODAMA COMMENTS ON YET ANOTHER CATHOLIC PRIEST MURDERED BY LRA REBELS Kampala (Fides Service) – “Father Lawrence Oyuru is the latest of the countless victims of this war forgotten by everyone” Archbishop John Baptist Odama of Gulu, northern Uganda, tells Fides Service with regard to ...
• 2 September 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - UN PEACEKEEPERS REPLACE EU TROOPS IN BUNIA BUT THERE IS ANOTHER SILENT WAR IN OUTLYING VILLAGES TO BE STOPPED Bunia (Fides Service)- There was no trouble in the hand-over of control by the European Union peace force in Ituri (north-east Democratic Congo) to the United Nations peacekeepers, as part of the MONUC (UN Mission in Con ...
• 2 September 2003
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - MISSIONARIES IN NORTH IVORY COAST SAY: “EVERYTHING IS BLOCKED… WE FEAR HOSTILITIES MAY RESUME MORE VIRULENT THAN EVER ” Abidjan (Fides Service)- “We still live a situation of war, despite the peace agreements and the setting up of the national unity government” a missionary in Korhogo, in northern Ivory Coast, reports to Fides Service ...
• 1 September 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO – DISMAYED BY FIVE YEARS OF WAR IN CONGO CARITAS ITALY CALLS FOR RESPECT FOR PEACE PACT, A REGIONAL CONFERENCE, MORE EFFORT BY THE EU AND MORE MEDIA FOCUS ON EXISTING POSITIVE ASPECTS Rome (Fides Service) – Respect for peace agreement; convocation of a Regional Summit of all governments in the Great Lakes Region to find lasting, non violent solutions to the local problems; increase diplomatic and ai ...
• 1 September 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA – DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD RESUMES TO WAR EXHAUSTED PEOPLE. BANDITRY A PROBLEM IN MANY AREAS Monrovia (Fides Service)- “The people are starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel, after so many years of war and desperation” Consolata Missionary Sisters in Harbel tell Fides Service. Harbel lies 50 km s ...