Africa
2 March 2023
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Opposition wants to challenge election results: Wahlsiger Tinubu is trying to achieve reconciliation
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The first act of Nigerian President-elect Bola Tinubu, yesterday March 1st, launched a reconciliation committee with the other presidential candidates who stood in the elections of February 25th ( ...
1 March 2023
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Appointment of Auxiliary Bishop of Maputo, Tonito Francisco Xavier Muananoua
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed Rev. Tonito Francisco Xavier Muananoua, of the clergy of Guruè, currently Vicar General and parish priest of the Cathedral of Santo António de Lisboa ...
1 March 2023
AFRICA/DR CONGO - North Kivu: Humanitarian situation worsens
Goma (Agenzia Fides) - The recent wave of violence in the province of North Kivu (see Fides, 9/2/2023) has forced tens of thousands of people to leave their homes and seek shelter in different areas of the region. Among ...
1 March 2023
AFRICA/NIGERIA - The candidate of the outgoing President's party wins the presidential elections
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The former governor of Lagos, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has won the presidential elections held in Nigeria on February 25, according to the official results published today, March 1, by the Independent N ...
28 February 2023
AFRICA/UGANDA - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 18, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle confirmed rev. Pontian Kaweesa, of the diocesan clergy of Kiyinda-Mityana, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) i ...
28 February 2023
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 1, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle confirmed Rev. Isidore Nombré, of the diocesan clergy of Koudougou, the position of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies ...
28 February 2023
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Less violence in elections: Observers complain about organizational problems
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The level of violence in the margins of the elections last February 25, during which the Head of State was elected and the deputies of the National Assembly (cf. Fides 24/2/2023), although less th ...
27 February 2023
AFRICA/DR CONGO - "We await clarification on the invasion of the Archbishopric by the Republican Guard"
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We demand clarifications from the military hierarchy that raided the archbishopric and cathedral", says a statement from the Archdiocese of Lubumbashi where on the morning of Friday February 2 ...
27 February 2023
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Psychological assistance, schools, food for 7 million people: Salesian missionaries always on the front line
Mekelle (Agenzia Fides) - "Sending humanitarian aid to Tigray has become easier and we continue to assist people who have been affected by the two years of conflict", wrote Father Abba Hailemariam Medhin, Superior of the ...
24 February 2023
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - After being injured by a landmine: Father Norberto Pozzi arrived in Bologna
Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The 71-year-old Italian Carmelite missionary Norberto Pozzi, injured by a landmine on the road from Bozoum to Bocaranga in north-western Central African Republic (see Fides, 13/2/2023), arrived t ...
24 February 2023
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Elections on February 25th and March 11th: The country is at a turning point
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Two "old foxes" of Nigerian politics and one (almost) outsider, very popular with the younger electorate, are the three favorites in the presidential elections that will take place in Nigeria tomo ...
23 February 2023
AFRICA/ALGERIA -The three Nuns of Timimoun
Timimoun (Agenzia Fides) - The village of Timimoun rises in the homonymous oasis in the center of the Algerian desert, more than 1,200 kilometers south of Algiers. Tourist guides point it out for the red ochre color of i ...
23 February 2023
AFRICA/DR CONGO - In the east of the Country: Around 10 million people depend on humanitarian aid
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A total of 2.25 billion dollars is needed to help the 10 million people in the three eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Ituri, North and South Kivu) who, according to th ...
22 February 2023
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - The number of the latest jihadist attacks worsens
Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - At least 70 soldiers have been killed in four days in two different clashes with jihadist groups in northern Burkina Faso.
The bloodiest clash dates back to February 17 when at least 51 sol ...
22 February 2023
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - The missionaries in the Anjanamasina juvenile prison: Making young people feel loved, important to someone, not a burden to get rid of
Ankililoaka (Agenzia Fides) - 'Trano zaza maditra', or Home for naughty boys, is the name of the state rehabilitation center which receives more than a hundred children and young people in Anjanamasina, a suburb of the c ...
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