Africa

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  20 September 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Justice and Peace: "unacceptable death of 36 psychiatric patients due to the reduction of medical expenses" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "It is morally unacceptable that 36 psychiatric patients died within months of being moved from the Life Healthcare Esidimeni Centre to local NGOs and other facilities, without any interven ...
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  19 September 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - Human Rights Watch:The return of Somali refugees in Dadaab is not "voluntary" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Many of the Somali refugees in Dadaab camp (in northeastern Kenya) "have agreed to return home because they fear Kenya will force them out if they stay" denounce Human Rights Watch (HRW). Accor ...
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  19 September 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Clashes between demonstrators and police in Kinshasa Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – There are ongoing clashes in Kinshasa, capital of Democratic Republic of Congo, between police and demonstrators belonging to the "Rassemblement", a group of opposition parties that support t ...
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  19 September 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Patriarch Tawadros supports the demonstration of the Copts pro-Sisi convened in New York Egypt may not currently be the best country in the world, however, with its citizens and leaders, Egypt strives to be one of the best societies in the world. This will be accomplished through serious steps, major project ...
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  16 September 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishops alarm: "A hurricane of violence that threatens to plunge the country into chaos" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "A hurricane of violence by herdsmen and other agents of death has left in its wake a landscape of blood and destruction" accuse the Bishops of Nigeria in their message "Restoring confidence in Ni ...
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  16 September 2016
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Mozambique President meets IMF and World Bank as debt and corruption concerns loom Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - "We have great concern for how this crisis impacts people living in one of the world's poorest countries", stated in a note sent to Agenzia Fides, Eric LeCompte, the executive director of the rel ...
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  15 September 2016
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The Country threatened by a locust plague Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Another scourge is affecting the populations of North Kordofan and North Darfur. Swarms of locusts are infesting the fields and are endangering crops. This is what mainly farmers of the invaded ...
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  15 September 2016
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Coadjutor of Tripoli: "Migrants have a distorted vision of Europe instilled by traffickers" Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation in Tripoli is generally calm but occasionally clashes break out among the various militias that have divided the control of the city. These things do not happen often; skirmishes ...
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  15 September 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - New sectarian clashes in Minya; Coptic Bishop visits the wounded Minya (Agenzia Fides) - New tensions and sectarian clashes have affected the province of Minya in Upper Egypt. Yet another violent incident occurred in the village of Assem, 250 kilometers south of Cairo, on September 1 ...
• 14 September 2016
  AFRICA/CHAD - Appointment of the Rector of the "Saint Luc" Theological major Seminary in Bakara Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 9, 2016 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Dominique Tinoudji, of the clergy of the diocese of Moundou as Recto ...
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  14 September 2016
  AFRICA/GABON - The Pope's appeal for Gabon has had strong echo in the Country", says the Bishop of Port Gentil Libreville (Agenzia Fides) - "The Holy Father's appeal for Gabon was greeted with great joy by the people", says to Agenzia Fides His Exc. Mgr. Euzébius Chinekezy Ogbonna Managwu, Bishop of Port Gentil, who is in Rome f ...
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  14 September 2016
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The number of children with cancer increases Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - There are 400,000 children suffering from cancer in Sudan. This was stated in a note sent to Agenzia Fides, by the General Coordinator of the Pediatric Hospital of Oncology in Khartoum. The cas ...
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  14 September 2016
  AFRICA/CONGO - Cooperatives to empower disabled children Pointe-Noire (Agenzia Fides) - In Pointe-Noire, the second largest city in the Republic of Congo, about 500 kilometers from the capital Brazzaville, it is estimated there are at least 7,000 disabled children out of a pop ...
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  14 September 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "Disturbing situation that threatens to plunge the country into chaos", says the secretary of the Episcopal Conference Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Blocking the electoral process creates a worrying situation which risks plunging the country into chaos", said Fr. Léonard Santedi, Secretary General of the National Episcopal Conference of t ...
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  13 September 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Cardinal. Onaiyekan: "Immigration in Europe is not the answer to the frustration of unemployed youth" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Human trafficking is likely to increase the number of frustrated people who cannot make ends meet. You know by the time you finish university and you are roaming the streets for three, four, five ...