AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Voting extended in several polling stations
Harare (Agenzia Fides) - Zimbabweans are called to vote today, August 24, in 40 polling stations due to delays in the presidential and administrative elections held yesterday, August 23 (see Fides, 17/8/2023). The vote i ...
AFRICA/NIGER - "Niger is a mirror of the international community"
Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "Even a military coup still in progress can highlight, as in a mirror, the roles and characters of the drama taking place in Niamey and elsewhere", writes to Fides Fr. Mauro Armanino, missionary ...
19 August 2023
AFRICA - The rush for African lithium: an opportunity for the continent?
Rome (Fides News Agency) - Africa holds 30-75% of the world's reserves of lithium, phosphate, copper, chromium, manganese, gold, platinum, diamonds and aluminum.
Some of these are minerals, such as lithium, which are i ...
17 August 2023
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Appointment of the Auxiliary Bishop of Inhambane
Inhambane (Fides News Agency) - On the 11th of August 2023, the Holy Father Francis appointed H.E. Mons. Hilário Da Cruz Massinga, O.F.M. - the Bishop of Quelimane until now - Auxiliary Bishop of Inhambane, assigning hi ...
AFRICA/NIGER - Chronicles from the military coup capital
Niamey (Fides News Agency) - While the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) decided yesterday, at the summit in Abuja (Nigeria), to activate the "standby force" - tasked with intervening "as soon as possibl ...