Africa

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  16 November 2024
  AFRICA/KENYA - New Bishop of Embu: "Even in prison it is possible to meet the Lord" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Today, November 16, Peter Kimani Ndung'u, appointed Bishop of Embu on August 15 (see Fides 15/8/2024), will receive episcopal ordination in his diocese and thus take up his episcopal office. Bi ...
• 15 November 2024
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Appointment of the Apostolic Vicar of Awasa, Gobezayehu Getachew Yilma Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis has appointed Rev. Gobezayehu Getachew Yilma, currently Vicar Delegate of the Apostolic Vicariate of Meki and Executive Director of the Diocesan Caritas, as Apostolic Vicar of ...
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  15 November 2024
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Bishops: "People are losing trust in the government; we need to restore hope in Kenya" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We are compelled to express our deep concern about the disturbing political climate in our country," say the Bishops of Kenya in a statement entitled "Let Us Restore Hope in Kenya", presented y ...
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  14 November 2024
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Peaceful elections in Somaliland await final count Hargheisa (Agenzia Fides) - The counting of votes is underway for the presidential elections held yesterday, November 13, 2024, in Somaliland. A significant event for this region that declared itself independent from Som ...
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  14 November 2024
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The war in Sudan continues amid general indifference Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - There is a war on the ground and a media war. As in many conflicts today, even in El Fasher, the capital of the Sudanese region of North Darfur, the media plays a significant role in the events ...
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  13 November 2024
  AFRICA/NIGER - Fourteen unarmed widows challenge armed groups and win by Mauro Armanino Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Their husbands and even some of their children have been killed by armed groups who are terrorizing and emptying the villages in the Three Borders area, which includes Burki ...
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  12 November 2024
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Post-election protests continue and the number of dead rises Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - The number of victims of clashes between demonstrators and police in Mozambique has risen to 30 since protests broke out three weeks ago over alleged fraud in the October 9 elections (see Fides, ...
• 12 November 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Nigerian priest Emmanuel Azubuike is free Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Nigerian priest Emmanuel Azubuike, kidnapped on November 5 (see Fides, 6/11/2024), is free. According to the Diocese of Okigwe, Father Azubuike was "released in the early hours of November 11 ...
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  11 November 2024
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Arson attack on the church in Mapeera Kigungu, built on the spot where the first evangelizing missionaries of the country landed Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - The historic Catholic church of Mapeera Kigungu has suffered damage as a result of an arson attack. The attack dates back to November 7, when some unknown persons entered the church at 10 p.m. a ...
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  11 November 2024
  AFRICA/EGYPT - “The beauty of the mission is like the colored tiles of a mosaic that together form a masterpiece” Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – “The first blue tile is the rain that a few days ago soaked the dusty streets of Cairo for about five minutes. It practically never rains here; since I arrived three months ago, not a drop ha ...
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  8 November 2024
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Protests continue: border crossing with South Africa closed Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - "I have the feeling that there is a revolutionary climate that shows that we are on the eve of an unparalleled historical transition," says Mozambican opposition leader Venancio Mondlane about th ...
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  7 November 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Rector of the minor Seminary is free: he had offered himself as a hostage in exchange for two students Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Father Thomas Oyode, the rector of the minor seminary in Agenegabode in the Etsako East district of Edo State in southern Nigeria, who was kidnapped on Sunday 27 October, is free. After eleven day ...
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  6 November 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Another priest kidnapped in Imo State, southern Nigeria Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – Another priest has been kidnapped in Nigeria. He is Fr Emmanuel Azubuike. The priest, who works in the parish of St. Theresa, Obollo, Isiala Mbano, in the southern state of Imo, was kidnapped on ...
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  5 November 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Four soldiers sentenced to death for looting a parish Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Four Congolese soldiers were sentenced to death on October 31 by a military court in Butembo, North Kivu (east of the Democratic Republic of Congo). The four soldiers are accused of looting the ...
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  5 November 2024
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Post-election tensions rise: opposition leader denounces assassination attempt Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Post-election tensions have risen in Mozambique following the controversial victory of FRELIMO (Mozambique Liberation Front), in power since 1975, in the elections of October 9 (see Fides, 24/10/ ...