Africa

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  22 August 2024
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Uphill road for peace talks in Geneva; three humanitarian corridors reopened Khartoum (Fides News Agency) – The reopening of three crossing points for humanitarian aid is so far the only (albeit important) result of the peace talks for Sudan currently underway in Geneva. Representatives of th ...
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  21 August 2024
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Kidnappings for ransom on the rise Addis Ababa (Fides News Agency) – Kidnappings for ransom are on the rise in several regions of Ethiopia. These are carried out by criminal gangs as well as guerrilla movements that use ransom money to finance themselve ...
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  20 August 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Concern for the fate of the 20 medical students abducted on August 15 Abuja (Fides News Agency) - Still no news of the 20 medical students abducted on August 15th in Benue State, in east-central Nigeria. The students were en route to the annual national congress held by the Federation of C ...
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  19 August 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "The crisis in North Kivu is not just neglected but tolerated" says the UN Humanitarian Coordinator to the DRC Kinshasa (Fides News Agency) - "6 humanitarian operators were killed and 11 kidnapped between January and June of this year, with upwards of 200 incidents which directly targeted humanitarian operators on the field", sai ...
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  19 August 2024
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The governor of Unity State bans forced marriages Juba (Fides News Agency) - Enough with forced marriages for women and girls. This is what Riek Biem, governor of Unity State in South Sudan, has established. "I am the governor of this State and I declare today: let us s ...
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  18 August 2024
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO - Sixty years after martyrdom, the missionaries of Uvira proclaimed Blessed Uvira (Fides News Agency) – Blessed are the Xaverian missionaries killed out of an odium fidei during the Mulelist uprising against the Congolese Government. Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, Archbishop of Kinshasa, r ...
• 15 August 2024
  AFRICA/KENYA - Appointment of Military Ordinary for Kenya Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father has appointed H.E. Msgr. Wallace Ng'ang'a Gachihi - titular Bishop of Thucca di Mauritania and Auxiliary of Nairobi - as Ordinary of the Military Ordinariate of Kenya. ...
• 15 August 2024
  AFRICA/KENYA - Appointment of the Bishop of the Diocese of Embu Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Peter Kimani Ndung 'u S.A.C. - of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Nairobi, hitherto National Chaplain of the Prison Service of Kenya - Bishop ...
• 14 August 2024
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Appointment of the Bishop of Ambatondrazaka Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed the Reverend Orthasie Marcellin Herivonjilalaina, S.A.C - thus far the Rector of the Major Philosophical Seminary of Toamasina - Bishop of the Dioc ...
• 12 August 2024
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Resignation and appointment of the Bishop of Butare Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father Francis has accepted the resignation from the pastoral government of the Diocese of Butare offered by H.E. Msgr. Philippe Rukamba. The Holy Father Francis has appoint ...
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  9 August 2024
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Is South Africa a financial center for ISIS in Africa? Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - The presence in South Africa of people linked to the Islamic State (IS) does not seem to worry the government. This was stated by the President of the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Con ...
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  8 August 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bishops: “The ceasefire signed in Luanda for eastern DRC must be implemented” Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The ceasefire agreement must be fully implemented," the Congolese Bishops' Conference demands of the governments of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda. In a statement published on Aug ...
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  7 August 2024
  AFRICA/CHAD - Only 24 hours after his arrest: Father Madou is free N'Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - "Father Madou is fine, although he says he was mistreated during his arrest," an source from the local Church in the Chadian capital N'Djamena told Fides. The source, who requested anonymity, ...
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  6 August 2024
  AFRICA/CHAD - Priest arrested: "The prosecutor has not yet commented" N'Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - "We do not know where Father Madou is after his arrest yesterday. The prosecutor has not yet commented and therefore there is no formal charge against him," report local ecclesiastical sources ...
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  6 August 2024
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - The population traumatized after the attack on the beach in Mogadishu by Gianluca Frinchillucci Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - Mogadishu and the whole of Somalia were shaken by a tragic act of terrorism last Friday, August 2, when members of the Islamist terrorist group Al-Shabaab attacke ...