Africa
26 February 2024
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - At least 15 dead in Catholic church attack
Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - The small remaining community of Catholic faithful who had gathered for Sunday prayers under the leadership of a catechist were gathered yesterday, Sunday, February 25, in Essakane, a villag ...
23 February 2024
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishops: “Counter poverty with measures to combat insecurity and promote agriculture”
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - " The legitimacy of government depends on its capacity to protect life and property" emphasize the Nigerian Bishops in the final declaration of their first general assembly in 2024. The Catholic B ...
23 February 2024
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Appointment of coadjutor bishop of Bangassou
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Aurelio Gazzera, O.C.D., until now director of Caritas for the diocese of Bouar, as coadjutor bishop of Bangassou, Central African Republic.
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22 February 2024
AFRICA/GHANA - Church helps migrants and asylum seekers
Accra (Agenzia Fides) - In addition to the drama in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip, there are many other situations of displacement and people seeking refuge that deserve the attention of international institutions. This is ...
22 February 2024
AFRICA/GUINEA - Erection of the diocese of Boké, Guinea, and appointment of first bishop
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has erected the new diocese of Boké, Guinea, with territory taken from the archdiocese of Conakry.
The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Moïse Tinguiano, of the cler ...
22 February 2024
AFRICA/SOMALIA - Naval agreement between Somalia and Turkey to counter the one between Ethiopia and Somaliland?
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - "Somalia does not want foreign powers to fight on its territory," said Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, assuring that the naval military agreement approved yesterday February 21st (but ...
21 February 2024
AFRICA/SUDAN - The ten-month war has devastated the country
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The war that broke out in Sudan ten months ago has triggered a devastating humanitarian crisis. As of January 2024, there were over 10.7 million displaced people, the largest displacement crisi ...
21 February 2024
AFRICA/SUDAN - Gorom: Precarious conditions in refugee camps
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "The most basic services are lacking, refugees in the Gorom camp, west of Juba, the capital of South Sudan, are struggling to get food," report local sources, given the deteriorating conditions ...
20 February 2024
AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Zimbabwean bishops warn of increasing poverty in their Country
Harare (Agenzia Fides) - Another Bishops' Conference in Africa warns that the government's economic policies are worsening the poverty in which the majority of the population lives. Like the Bishops of Nigeria (see Fides ...
19 February 2024
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Resumption of jihadist attacks in the north, but with a new "modus operandi"
Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Attacks by jihadists linked to the ISIS militia "Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jamma'ah" have increased in the Pemba province, northern Mozambique. In recent days, the small Mozambican fishing village of Q ...
19 February 2024
AFRICA/NIGERIA - President of the Bishops' Conference: “Economic reforms lead to extreme poverty”
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - " As a result of the government’s reform agenda, millions of Nigerians have been reduced to a life of grinding poverty, wanton suffering, and untold hardship as never before in our national hist ...
16 February 2024
AFRICA/SENEGAL - The Constitutional Court cancels the postponement of the vote decided by President Sall
Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "Senegal has lost the title of African champion of football nations, but retains the title of beacon of democracy in Africa", says a headline on the Burkinabe news portal "Wakatsera" on the decisi ...
16 February 2024
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Kidnappings in Nigeria are now out of control: Dicastery for Evangelization expresses solidarity with those affected
by Luca Mainoldi
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "In these trying times, this Dicastery offers its deepest and heartfelt solidarity to the Nigerian people, who are grappling with a crisis that is expanding in scope and intens ...
15 February 2024
AFRICA/GHANA - The Minister of Finance fired in view of the most challenging electoral campaign in the country's history
Accra (Agenzia Fides) - After Senegal (see Fides, 12/2/2024) now also Ghana (the two most stable countries in West Africa) has entered into crisis, albeit with a severity that is currently less worrying than the first. T ...
15 February 2024
AFRICA/DR CONGO - North Kivu: two South African soldiers die in an attack on a military base
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The situation in North Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is deteriorating. Yesterday, February 14, two South African soldiers were killed and three others wounded whe ...
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