Africa

• 10 July 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Withdrawal of the Blue Helmets from the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo: Paris and Washington take different positions Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The east of the Democratic Republic of Congo is at the center of the geopolitical interests of the great powers due to its natural resources and its strategic location. On July 8, the UN Securi ...
• 9 July 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Humanitarian ceasefire in North Kivu: opportunity to provide aid or opportunity to rearm? Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - There are two important new developments in the forgotten war in North Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo: the first is the two-week humanitarian ceasefire that came into for ...
• 9 July 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Father Mikah Suleiman released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "I thank you for your prayers for my rescue", Father Mikah Suleiman thanked those who prayed for his release. In a video posted on social media, the Nigerian priest kidnapped on June 22 (see Fides ...
• 8 July 2024
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - "Resilience is the best definition to describe the people in Tigray": the voice of the eparch of Adigrat by Antonella Prenna Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Healing from the traumas of war, recovery on a human and physical level, building peace, are the salient points on which we are focusing to deal with the devastation and vi ...
• 6 July 2024
  AFRICA - Sahel and beyond: the war of the mercenaries Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The Russians are coming," Western observers have been repeating for some time, referring to the arrival of mercenaries from the former "Wagner Group" in the Sahel, particularly in the states where ...
• 5 July 2024
  AFRICA//ETHIOPIA - Cardinal Souraphiel: “If you want to help us, train our young people so that they can work” Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - "In Ethiopia there are several conflicts, but we must never lose hope", says Cardinal Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel, Metropolitan Archbishop of Addis Ababa, who gave an interview to Fides. ...
• 4 July 2024
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Not only cocaine: priests call for the fight against drug trafficking Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - "As a Church, we are concerned about the damage caused by drugs because they destabilize the country, ruin the economy and their trafficking is seen as an easy way to enrich themselves," say the ...
• 4 July 2024
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Protection of the dignity and sacredness of all human life: the diocese of Kasese against human trafficking Kasese (Agenzia Fides) - Each human being is precious and worth much more than any material good, and since each life is a gift from God and is sacred, it deserves to be protected and cared for; each of us has the respon ...
• 4 July 2024
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Establishment of the Diocese of Bentiu and appointment of His Exc. Msgr Christian Carlassare as first Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 3, the Holy Father established the Catholic Diocese of Bentiu (South Sudan), with territory dismembered from the Diocese of Malakal, making it a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdi ...
• 3 July 2024
  AFRICA/SUDAN - No glimmer of peace seems to be in sight while the humanitarian situation is increasingly dramatic Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "We are continuing in this battle until victory, and I repeat once again that we will not negotiate with an enemy who attacks us and occupies our lands." This is how General Abdel Fattah al-Bur ...
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  3 July 2024
  AFRICA/BENIN - A missionary from the Society of African Missions: “To proclaim the Gospel to the most abandoned peoples, especially in Africa” Calavi (Agenzia Fides) - "After ten months at the International Center for Spirituality in Calavi, together with 40 seminarians and five formators from fifteen different nations, we have reached the culmination of our pa ...
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  2 July 2024
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Turkey mediates between Somalia and Ethiopia over Somaliland naval deal crisis Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - Turkey plays a mediating role in the crisis between Somalia and Ethiopia over the naval agreement that the latter signed at the beginning of the year with the breakaway region of Somaliland (s ...
• 2 July 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Suicide bombings in Gwoza: is it a rivalry between jihadists for control of the area? Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The number of victims of the quadruple bombings carried out on June 29 in Gwoza, in Borno state, in north-eastern Nigeria, has risen to 32. Some of the 50 or so wounded died in hospital, where the ...
• 1 July 2024
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bishops address young protesters: "Your hopes are our hopes" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "This is an explicit recognition by the pastors of the Catholic Church of the goodness of the aspirations of the new generation of young people who want a change in society," said an observer fr ...
• 28 June 2024
  AFRICA - Illegal financial flows: African countries lose over 88 billion dollars every year Tunis (Fides Agency) - More than 88 billion dollars are lost illegally to African countries every year. This was denounced yesterday, June 27, by the Executive Chairman of the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commi ...