Africa

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  9 January 2025
  AFRICA/CHAD - Doubts and many questions after the mysterious attack on the presidential palace N'Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - "It is difficult to know exactly what happened last night," local sources in N'Djamena tell Fides. In the capital of Chad, an armed group attacked the presidential palace yesterday evening, Ja ...
• 9 January 2025
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Angolan faithful pray for the Mozambican population: "The true battlefield is the human heart, from which evil and peace arise" Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us pray for Mozambique caught in a spiral of violence that is not the remedy for our fractured world. Violence breeds more violence, causing suffering, anguish, and forced migration," Fr. C ...
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  9 January 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Two nuns kidnapped in southeastern Nigeria Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Two members of the Sisters’ Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Mother of Christ (IHM) in Anambra State, southeastern Nigeria were abducted on the evening of Tuesday, January 7, 2025. ...
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  8 January 2025
  AFRICA/KENYA - Concern in Kenya over missing persons in connection with youth protests Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Since June 2024, at least 80 people have disappeared in Kenya, and relatives and friends suspect the police in connection with these disappearances. During the Christmas period, the Kenyan Natio ...
• 8 January 2025
  AFRICA/INDIAN OCEAN - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 7, 2025, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for the First Evangelization and the New Particular Churches), appointed Father ...
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  7 January 2025
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Further tensions: expectations for the return of the opposition candidate Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - "If they kill my brothers, I will be there so they can do whatever they want with me". With these words, Venâncio Mondlane, the candidate of the opposition party who claims to have won the presi ...
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  4 January 2025
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Puntland: New leaders emerge as fight against violence by armed groups continues by Gianluca Frinchillucci Garowe (Agenzia Fides) - The semi-autonomous region of Puntland, in northeastern Somalia, is experiencing a critical phase due to the increase in violence linked to jihadist armed groups aff ...
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  3 January 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Pain and dismay in the Archdiocese of Owerri after the shooting in a church that caused the death of a young man Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Archdiocese of Owerri highly regrets the shooting incident that took place on the eve of the New Year at the premises of St. Columba's Catholic Church Amaimo, leading to the death of ...
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  2 January 2025
  AFRICA/MALI - Bamako accuses Algeria of complicity with terrorist groups active on its territory Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - The Malian government has expressed “its deep concern at the persistence, on the part of some Algerian authorities, of continuous acts of interference in the internal affairs of the Republic of ...
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  2 January 2025
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Zambian President thanks the Church for supporting his country's debt restructuring efforts Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - "Forgive us our trespasses and grant us your peace". This is the theme chosen by Pope Francis for the 58th World Day of Peace celebrated yesterday, January 1, 2025. And it is precisely to the rol ...
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  1 January 2025
  WORLD DAY OF PEACE - Disarming words by Mauro Armanino* Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - In the conclusion of his captivity diary "Chains of Freedom", his friend and confrere Pier Luigi Maccalli invites us to "disarm words". Two years of captivity in the desert ...
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  31 December 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - A priest and pharmacist shot dead in the street Nnewi (Agenzia Fides) - The Christmas season for the Catholic community in the Nigerian Diocese of Nnewi is marked by the murder of Father Tobias Chukwujekwu Okonkwo, a Catholic priest and pharmacist, who was shot dead i ...
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  27 December 2024
  AFRICA - “Collateral” effects: how African wars sabotage access to education for the new generations by Cosimo Graziani Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The humanitarian emergency faced by millions of refugees and displaced people in Africa, resulting from the numerous conflicts on the continent, is becoming even more critic ...
• 19 December 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The DRC's complaint against Apple raises the issue of ethics in international trade Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The government of Kinshasa has filed a lawsuit against Apple in France and Belgium, accusing the company of using components derived from minerals illegally mined in the Democratic Republic of ...
• 19 December 2024
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Fire in the Parliament after weeks of tension Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, December 18, a fire broke out in the Parliament building in Monrovia. The flames, whose origin is currently unclear, were only extinguished with difficulty by the firefighters. The P ...