Africa

• 11 June 2012
  AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE - Civilians fleeing the south-west after the killing of 7 "Blue Helmets" Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - The population is fleeing their villages in the south-west of Côte d'Ivoire after the ambush on 8 June that claimed the lives of seven "Blue Helmets", from Niger, of the UN Force in Côte d'Ivo ...
• 8 June 2012
  AFRICA/MALI - Clashes between rebels in northern Mali Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The separation between the two groups has now fully been realized" says Fr. Edmond Dembele, Secretary of the Episcopal Conference of Mali to Fides, confirming reports of clashes in the north bet ...
• 8 June 2012
  AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE - Mobile Libraries for orphaned and vulnerable children due to HIV/AIDS Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - The activity of mobile libraries for orphaned and vulnerable children due to HIV/AIDS and for youth in situations of conflict has just been launched in Abidjan. The project, sponsored by the Ass ...
• 8 June 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - The Bishops of Kivu launch the alarm of a large scale war Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "There are consistent indications that evoke the specter of a war which still has hidden reasons". This was the warning given by the Bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Bukavu in eastern ...
• 6 June 2012
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE-Health care for the inhabitants of the district of Caia and 3 other neighboring districts Padua (Agenzia Fides) - After 3 long years of waiting, a new hospital in the district of Caia, in the province of Sofala has just opened. According to information Fides received, thus far health activities were carried o ...
• 6 June 2012
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "The Catholic community has resumed its activities," says the Apostolic Vicar of Benghazi Benghazi(Agenzia Fides) - "We have resumed the normal pace of our activities" says to Fides His Exc. Mgr. Sylvester Carmel Magro, Apostolic Vicar of Benghazi, in Libya. "Today, for example, we celebrate the Novena of Our ...
• 6 June 2012
  AFRICA/MALI - Serious human rights violations in the north continue Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - The Association of Mali for the Protection of Human Rights (AMHR) has reported serious violations of human rights in the North African area controlled by Tuareg rebels and the armed Islamist grou ...
• 6 June 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - At least 16 suspected members of Boko Haram killed in a security operation Maiduguri (Agenzia Fides) - At least 16 suspected members of the Boko Haram sect were killed in a major operation conducted by the army in Maiduguri, capital of Borno State in northeastern Nigeria. After having surrounde ...
• 5 June 2012
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "Libya is free, but it is a freedom that must be conquered," said Bishop Martinelli Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is calm again. When we left this morning at 7 am after Mass, we did not notice anything special " said His Exc. Mgr. Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli to F ...
• 5 June 2012
  AFRICA/MALI-The divisions of the North could favour a Pan-African military intervention Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - " Prime Minister Cheick Modibo Diarra, is engaged in raising the morale of the army to prepare it for a possible intervention in the north. Last weekend he traveled to the Tibou region to meet mi ...
• 4 June 2012
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Two statements of the responsible of Shabaab suggest a crisis in the fundamentalist movement Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - The radical Somali Islamist group Shabaab seems to be weakened by recent military and diplomatic developments and are internally divided. On the military side, with the conquest of Afgoyee in ...
• 4 June 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishops are devastated for the "Black Sunday" in Nigeria Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We are appalled and shocked by the two tragedies that hit Nigeria yesterday, the airplane crash in Lagos that killed 153 people, and the attack on a Christian church in Bauchi," says to Fides His ...
• 4 June 2012
  AFRICA/DR CONGO -Malnutrition and violence the innocent children and the population of Goma are having to face Goma (Agenzia Fides) - Today, June 4, is the "International Day of Innocent Children Victims of aggression" sponsored by the United Nations. The young ones and the entire population of North Kivu suffer the climate of te ...
• 2 June 2012
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - It is important to bring war criminals to justice, but we also need to improve the population's economic and social advancement Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Gerardo Caglioni, a Xaverian missionary with a long experience in Sierra Leone, sent his contribution to Fides Agency on the situation in Sierra Leone in the light of former Liberian Presid ...
• 31 May 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Fighting in North Kivu, causing 80,000 displaced people, the missionaries denounce the "lies of war" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - For two weeks the fighting between the national army of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and rebels of the Movement of March 23 (M23) have been concentrated on three hills: Mbuzi, Chanzu ...