Africa

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  6 December 2024
  AFRICA/NAMIBIA - SWAPO candidate wins presidential election Windhoek (Agenzia Fides) - Outgoing Vice President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah won the presidential election in Namibia on November 27 (see Fides, 27/11/2024). The candidate of SWAPO (South West Africa People's Organization), ...
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  6 December 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Spiritan Father kidnapped on November 30 has been released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Father Gerald Ohaeri, who was kidnapped on the evening of November 30th, is free again and in good health," says a statement from the South-East Nigeria Province of the Missionary Society of the ...
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  5 December 2024
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “Keep praying for Sudan so that this senseless and tragic war comes to an end”: missionaries evacuated from Dar Mariam by Antonella Prenna Rome (Agenzia Fides) – “On the day the war began in Khartoum, on April 15, 2023, we had the last exams of the school year. Around 11 am, we noticed that there were many people at the school gat ...
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  4 December 2024
  AFRICA/GHANA - Presidential election: Bishops hope for a peaceful outcome Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "If any party were to stand out and say I don’t want peace, then, they do not deserve to be voted for in the country, so it is their own interest that they put their signatures and accept this p ...
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  4 December 2024
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - New Apostolic Vicar of Soddo: “The strength of our people is faith” by Antonella Prenna Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “Our strength, the strength of our people, our vicariate and our diocese is faith. We have a very deep-rooted faith, people trust in God, they place their hope in God that ...
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  4 December 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Member of the Missionary Society of the Holy Spirit kidnapped in south-east Nigeria Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - A member of the Missionary Society of the Holy Spirit (Spiritans) has been kidnapped in Nigeria. Father Gerald Ohaeri was kidnapped on the evening of November 30. According to the information prov ...
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  2 December 2024
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Dozens of people killed after a stampede at a football stadium Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - "There is still no precise information on the number of dead (the government says 56, ed.) and wounded in yesterday's drama at the stadium," said the President of the Episcopal Conference of Gui ...
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  2 December 2024
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Arbitrary arrests and disappearances of opposition figures are worrying Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - Arbitrary arrests, political opponents who disappear without a trace or are brutally murdered by mysterious assassins. Worrying incidents are occurring in Tanzania. The case of Deusdedith ...
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  30 November 2024
  AFRICA/KENYA - Auxiliary Bishop of Nairobi: "Let's work together to end gender-based violence and femicide in our society" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "In recent months, Kenya has witnessed a troubling pattern of women losing their lives in gruesome murders and under unclear circumstances," said Simon Peter Kamomoe, one of the two auxiliary bi ...
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  29 November 2024
  AFRICA/CHAD - Chad unexpectedly ends military cooperation agreements with France N'Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - "A move yet to be interpreted that in any case has taken everyone by surprise" local sources in N'Djamena, the capital of Chad, told Fides after the announcement that the local government inte ...
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  28 November 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The young customs officer, killed for opposing corrupt officials who wanted to import a shipment of bad rice, will be beatified Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The young Congolese civil servant assassinated for opposing corruption will be beatified. Floribert Bwana Chui Bin Kositi, a young civil servant from the Democratic Republic of Congo, had refus ...
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  28 November 2024
  AFRICA/UGANDA - “Rebuilding the lives of refugees”: the theme of the Salesian mission in Palabek Palabek (Agencia Fides) – Teenage pregnancies account for almost a fifth of all births that occur each year in Uganda and 32,000 cases monthly. To help these young Ugandans, the Salesian missionaries have launched ...
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  28 November 2024
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - In the heart of Africa, missionaries consecrate a new Shrine dedicated to John Paul II Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - "Evangelization today must be renewed in the sense that the rapid development of society brings with it new challenges similar to those experienced by some Churches in ancient times. It is ther ...
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  27 November 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - General tries to prevent the Archbishop of Lubumbashi from celebrating the Mass of Christ the King: "An illegal act against the Constitution" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "An illegal order that the Archbishop of Lubumbashi did not follow," said the Archdiocese of Lubumbashi (in the south of the Democratic Republic of Congo) in a statement regarding the ban impos ...
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  27 November 2024
  AFRICA/TOGO - Walking together in hope: new aspirants at the seminary of Lomé Lomé (Agenzia Fides) - "I cannot give up my fetishes, but I want all my children to become Christians." Taking up the words of a priest of the traditional divinities in Akrassikro, Ivory Coast, Father Silvano Galli, who ...