Africa

• 15 April 2013
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - "Symbolic targets have been hit," said Mgr. Bertin Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - "Symbolic places were hit," says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Giorgio Bertin, Bishop of Djibouti and Apostolic Administrator of Mogadishu, where yesterday, Sunday, April 14, at least 34 civil ...
• 15 April 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "Chaotic situation, who can must escape" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "There are soldiers and armed men everywhere and several civilians are trying to escape elsewhere," says to Fides Agency Mgr. Dieudonné Nzapalainga Archbishop of Bangui, capital of the Central A ...
• 15 April 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Government representatives contested by the Copts during a meeting of "reconciliation" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - A traditional meeting of "reconciliation" convened by the regime in past days caused the death of at least 8 people – registered a lively protest to government representatives by the faithful C ...
• 13 April 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA- Still chaos but the new authorities carry out some steps to stabilize the situation Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The Central African Republic is still living in instability and insecurity after the flight of President Bozizé following the entry of the rebels of the coalition Seleka in the capital Bangui, o ...
• 12 April 2013
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - "I found signs of hope," said Bishop Bertin who has just returned from Mogadishu Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - "I found concrete signs of hope even if the new state institutions are not yet in full control of the situation," says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Giorgio Bertin, Bishop of Djibouti and Apos ...
• 12 April 2013
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - The Bishops of Southern Africa demand free and transparent elections Harare (Agenzia Fides) -To ensure transparent elections that take place in a peaceful atmosphere away from violence. This is the request made by a delegation of IMBISA (Inter-Regional Meeting of Bishops of Southern Afric ...
• 11 April 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Pope Tawadros II’s secretary: five guidelines to do away with religious conflicts Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "We are tired of palliatives. There is need for concrete measures." This is how Father Makari Habibi, personal secretary of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II, ruled in favor of the provisi ...
• 10 April 2013
  AFRICA/MALI - Refugees, food shortages and mine clearance: new emergencies in the Country Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The security situation in Bamako and in most of the Country have improved, but we still have the problem of refugees and displaced persons to be accommodated in their places of origin," says to ...
• 9 April 2013
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Refugee camps are collapsing due to another stream of Congolese Kigali (Agenzia Fides) - In Rwanda the camps hosting refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are almost full after another stream of people fled insecurity in the regions of eastern DRC. The thousands of Con ...
• 9 April 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - The South African troops have withdrawn from Bangui in the north of the Congo. Ready for revenge? Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Not only IDPs and refugees (mostly women and children) from Central African Republic have found reception in the province of Equator (in the north of the Democratic Republic of Congo), but also ...
• 8 April 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Refugees without parents: at least 2000 children Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - It is estimated that in the Democratic Republic of Congo (CAR), there are about 22,100 refugees from the Central African Republic (CAR), and that 40% of these are children aged between 2 to 14 se ...
• 8 April 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Assault against the Coptic Cathedral of St. Mark. Patriarch Tawadros calls everyone to remain calm Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The assault suffered in the afternoon of Sunday, April 7 against St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Abassyia in Cairo - where the funeral of four Coptic Christians killed two days before in a ...
• 8 April 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - At least 12 policemen died in an attack claimed by MEND Abuja (Agenzia Fides)-The Movement for the Emancipation of the Delta (MEND) claimed responsibility for the attack on 6 April in the lagoon of Azuzama, Bayelsa State, southern Nigeria, in which at least 12 policemen were ...
• 5 April 2013
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Clashes between police and Renamo: at least 4 victims Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - 4 people have died and 16 injured in the attack in the early hours of the morning by the men of the Renamo, the main opposition party in Mozambique, at the police command in Muxungué, in the pro ...
• 5 April 2013
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The continuous bombing on villages in the Nuba Mountains aims to drive out the civilians Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The Air Force of Khartoum continues to bomb villages of the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan, State of Sudan on the border with South Sudan, where a strong military confrontation has long been ...