Africa

• 3 June 2013
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Pre-meditated attack against a peaceful gathering in a church Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - "The Oasis Forum and its constituent members are appalled and shocked by the behavior of the Patriotic Front (PF, the ruling party) cadres who attacked a peaceful gathering of several civil socie ...
• 29 May 2013
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Eritrean refugees protest against the regime in Asmara Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - Nearly three thousand Eritrean refugees have protested in the camp of Berahle in the Afar region of Ethiopia a few kilometers from the border with Eritrea. The protesters wanted to draw the ...
• 29 May 2013
  AFRICA/SOMALILAND - More severe penalties to curb rapes in Somaliland Hargeisa (Agenzia Fides) - According to official estimates, there were about 5,000 cases of rape in Somaliland in 2012, compared to 4,000 in 2011. The figures of Sexual Assaults Referral Centre (SARC), indicates an incre ...
• 24 May 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "British-born Adebolajo is not a Nigerian": the Nigerian community in London react Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Nigerian press is giving prominence to the murder of British soldier which took place on May 22 in the London area of Woolwish, by two people carrying weapons. The first identified killer, Mic ...
• 23 May 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Tensions in North Kivu on the eve of Ban Ki-moon’s visit Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - More than 30,000 refugees in camps in North Kivu (eastern DRC) have fled because of the fighting between the Congolese army and the rebels of the M23. This was stated by sources of the UN High ...
• 23 May 2013
  AFRICA/NIGER - Fear of further outbreaks of cholera in refugee camps Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - In Niger, a cholera epidemic has affected 248 people in Ayorou, in the northwestern region of Tillabéry. According to the health offices of Tillabéry and the United Nations Agency for Refugees ...
• 22 May 2013
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - "The Church is object of persecution but the government does not intervene" Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - The recent attack carried out during the inauguration of the parish of St. Joseph the Worker in Arusha (see Fides 6 and 7 May, 2013) is only the latest in a series of acts of persecution a ...
• 22 May 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishops: "Nigeria now almost totters on the brink. Prayer is essential to restore peace" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of the Catholic Church in Nigeria have warned against the granting of blanket amnesty to members of the Boko Haram terrorist group describing such an act as an "endorsement of crimin ...
• 21 May 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA – Bishops say: "Yes to the State of emergency but it is politicians have to work for peace," Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We welcome the President’s efforts to put national challenges under control," said His Exc. Mgr. Ignatius Ayau Kaigama, Archbishop of Jos and President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Ni ...
• 21 May 2013
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - The "invisible" children of the continent are deprived of their rights Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - Half of the African children are "invisible" because they do not appear in any population register. This is what emerged in a statement released on the occasion of the XXI Meeting of the Afr ...
• 20 May 2013
  AFRICA - "Greater financial transparency" is what two Bishops ask the European Union Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The challenge of implementing the structural reforms needed to counter tax evasion and the opacity of the financial system is urgent," says an open letter signed by Mgr. Gabriel Mbilingi, Archbish ...
• 20 May 2013
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Attack near the Catholic church in Benghazi Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - A bomb attack against the Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception in Benghazi (Libya), happened on the night of May 17. "They put a bomb at the entrance of the corridor leading to the cour ...
• 18 May 2013
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - The Bishops say they want explanations for the apparent misuse of State property for a private wedding Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "The government owes South Africans a thorough, and quick, explanation for the apparent misuse of state property and personnel by those associated with the Gupta family wedding," says a not ...
• 16 May 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Secretary of CAN in Borno killed, shortly after the declaration of a state of emergency Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN, an association that brings together the leading Nigerian Christian denominations including the Catholic Church) in Borno State (in the n ...
• 16 May 2013
  AFRICA/SUDAN - 25 victims in the umpteenth bombing in the Nuba Mountains Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - A new massive bombing on a village in the Nuba Mountains, by the Sudanese Air Force, caused 25 victims and 8 wounded. This was reported by the Sudan Catholic Radio Network, according to which i ...