Africa

• 28 January 2013
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - The national stock of essential goods destroyed in the fire of the central market in Bujumbura Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "Traders have lost everything and the national stock of essential goods has been destroyed. Now skyrocketing prices will rise and people unfortunately pay the consequences," says to Fides Agen ...
• 28 January 2013
  AFRICA/MALI - The population of the cities liberated are celebrating Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "In the region liberated by jihadist groups, the population is celebrating" says to Fides Agency don Edmond Dembele, Secretary General of the Episcopal Conference of Mali, where the French and Ma ...
• 26 January 2013
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - 2013 State budget: social spending increases but those for the defense are still remain very high Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - The state budget in 2013 in Angola, approved by the National Assembly on January 15, is 6.6 trillion kwanza (about 69 billion U.S. dollars), an increase of 50% compared to 2012. The Government ha ...
• 25 January 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - The M23 asks to review the 2011 elections; "on what basis if it does not have popular consensus?" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Among the points that the M23, the guerrilla movement active in North Kivu (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo), has asked to discuss with the government of Kinshasa in the ongoing negotiatio ...
• 25 January 2013
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Some Western countries invite their countrymen to leave Benghazi Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) – Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands and Australia have urged their citizens to leave Benghazi immediately for fear of imminent terrorist attacks. An attack on oil installations is feared, ...
• 25 January 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Catholic Bishop Youhanna Golta: Egypt cannot become Islamist like Mali Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The future of Egypt? At the moment no one knows. Not even President Morsi. " On the second anniversary of the Revolution of 25 January 2013, while there are reports of new clashes in the streets b ...
• 24 January 2013
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Two purifiers will allow 1,800 people to have drinking water Kaolack (Agenzia Fides) - The campaign initiated in these past 12 months by the Catholic Spanish organization Manos Unidas La salud, derecho de todos: ¡Actua! is about to end, which has been busy around the world to try ...
• 24 January 2013
  AFRICA/SUDAN - "Stop the war in South Kordofan and Blue Nile" is what 350 African civil societies ask for Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Stop the war between the Sudanese army and SPLM-N (Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North) in South Kordofan and Blue Nile. This is the appeal launched by 350 African civil societies on the e ...
• 24 January 2013
  AFRICA/MALI - Bishops’ appeal for prayer and solidarity, who today will be received by the Head of State Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "For over a year our Country has been in a deep crisis. At the beginning of the new year, this crisis has entered a crucial phase," say the Bishops of Mali in a letter to the local Catholic commu ...
• 24 January 2013
  AFRICA/MALI - Armed conflict exacerbates the already precarious country's education system Barcelona (Agenzia Fides) - The armed conflicts underway in Mali continue to aggravate the already precarious education of children, and to cope with this emergency, the Spanish NGO Intervida is committed to the educatio ...
• 23 January 2013
  AFRICA/MALI - Japan closes its embassy in Bamako, but there are no specific threats against foreigners Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The closure of the Embassy of Japan in Bamako is a preventive measure, taking account of the terrorist attack in Algeria during which several Japanese citizens lost their lives, but to our knowl ...
• 22 January 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - New Bishops' appeal: "release the three Assumptionist Fathers kidnapped in October" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The three Assumptionist Fathers who were kidnapped last October are still in the hands of their kidnappers. The National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO) and, in particular, the Diocese o ...
• 22 January 2013
  AFRICA/ERITREA - Uncertain situation in Asmara after the revolt of a group of soldiers Asmara (Agenzia Fides) - Calm seems to have returned in Asmara, capital of Eritrea, where last night a group of soldiers occupied the Ministry of Information. From the limited information that come from the Country, the ...
• 21 January 2013
  AFRICA/MALI - The Bishops visit the wounded in the fighting; the Bishops' Conference gather up Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The Bishops visited the wounded in the fighting in the hospitals in Bamako to offer moral and spiritual comfort" says to Fides Agency Don Edmond Dembele, Secretary General of the Episcopal Confe ...
• 18 January 2013
  AFRICA/MALI - The army announces the reconquest of Konna: the first African soldiers are arriving Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - The Malian army announced today, January 18, to have taken full control of Konna, the city in the center of Mali, whose capture by the jihadist rebels provoked the intervention of the French mili ...