Africa

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  16 September 2026
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Ethiopian New Year: The Eparch of Adigrat delivers message of hope amid suffering Adigrat (Fides News Agency) – Celebrations for the Ethiopian New Year began in Ethiopia on September 11, a major occasion in Ethiopian culture, marking a time to celebrate tradition, prosperity and a new beginning. On ...
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  15 September 2026
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - A catechism of peace to heal souls wounded by ten years of war Yaoundé (Fides News Agency) – “During these ten years of suffering, our young people have grown up surrounded by violence,” says Archbishop Andrew Nkea Fuanya of Bamenda, capital of Mezam Division in Cameroon’s ...
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  15 September 2026
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Father Chikuni’s tragic death draws attention to road safety Harare (Fides News Agency) – Hit and killed in a road accident, he was reported missing for eleven days. This is the tragic fate of Father Regis Chikuni, a priest of the Archdiocese of Harare, Zimbabwe. The priest dis ...
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  14 September 2026
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bukavu mourns 27 victims of the fire; civil society: “A humanitarian catastrophe” Kinshasa (Fides News Agency) – The funerals of the 27 victims of the fire that devastated a school on September 10 in the Cimpunda district of Bukavu, capital of South Kivu Province in eastern Democratic Republic of th ...
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  14 September 2026
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Father Sebastião Moniz Dejoro: first Angolan priest of the Society for African Missions Luanda (Fides News Agency) – “I am bringing Angola into the SMA, just as the SMA was brought to Angola by the first missionaries.” These words capture the meaning of Sebastião Moniz Dejoro’s vocation. Ordained a ...
• 12 September 2026
  AFRICA/MOROCCO - Appointment of Coadjutor Archbishop of Rabat Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. León Dorado, O.M.I., until now apostolic prefect of the Western Sahara, as coadjutor archbishop of Rabat, Morocco. Msgr. Mario León Dor ...
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  11 September 2026
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bukavu: at least 27 students killed in a massive fire that destroyed two schools Kinshasa (Fides News Agency) – At least two fires broke out yesterday, September 10, in Bukavu, capital of South Kivu, in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is currently occupied by M23 rebels backed by Rw ...
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  11 September 2026
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Course for minor and major seminary formators promoted by the Pontifical Mission Societies Zomba (Fides News Agency) – The Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Malawi, in collaboration with the International Secretariat of the Pontifical Society of St Peter the Apostle (POSPA), are organizing a formation co ...
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  9 September 2026
  AFRICA/SUDAN - From water-treatment agent to chemical weapon: chlorine raises the risk of an embargo on an essential substance for civilians Khartoum (Fides News Agency) – A conflict increasingly shaped by external actors is now under suspicion of involving the use of chemical weapons by at least one of the parties. It is Sudan’s largely forgotten interna ...
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  9 September 2026
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Bishops call for clarity over the death of Bishop Osório Citora Afonso Quelimane (Fides News Agency) – Just over three months have passed since the violent death of Osório Citora Afonso, Bishop of Quelimane and Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Beira. In a statement issued ...
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  8 September 2026
  AFRICA/GHANA - Supreme Court controversy: Bishops call for greater caution, not resignation Accra (Fides news Agency) – The Chief Justice of Ghana, Paul Baffoe-Bonnie, should exercise greater caution when making public statements, but there are no grounds to call for his resignation. This, in essence, is the ...
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  7 September 2026
  AFRICA/NIGERIA — Archbishop Ugorji denounces ‘absolute control’ over missionary and private schools Abuja (Fides News Agency) — “We are compelled to speak out against the increasingly despotic and overreaching directives issued by the Imo State Commissioner of Education in recent times on social media.” With thes ...
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  6 September 2026
  Somalia between security transition and terrorism Mogadishu (Fides News Agency) – Somalia’s National Internal Security Conference was held in Mogadishu on September 1 and 2, bringing together members of the federal government, including the ministers for Internal Se ...
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  4 September 2026
  AFRICA/EQUATORIAL GUINEA - Government says it foiled coup attempt thanks to Russian help Malabo (Fides News Agency) – Authorities in Equatorial Guinea say they have foiled a coup attempt thanks to information received from Africa Corps, the Russian Defence Ministry-linked force operating in several African ...
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  3 September 2026
  AFRICA/GHANA - First parish dedicated to St Matthew Ayariga, the only Ghanaian among the 21 martyrs killed by ISIS in Libya, established in Texas Accra (Fides News Agency) –The first parish dedicated to St Matthew Ayariga, the Ghanaian Catholic who was martyred in Libya on 15 February 2015 together with the 20 Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Christians killed by jihadi ...