Africa

• 19 June 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Battle in the streets of Damaturu between the army and Boko Haram Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Damaturu, capital of the State of Yobe, north-east of Nigeria, was the scene of a real battle between the Boko Haram sect and the military of the Joint Military Task Force (JTF). The battle began ...
• 18 June 2012
  AFRICA/NIGER - The inhabitants of Tibiri organize themselves to deal with the hunger that affects the region each year Tibiri (Agenzia Fides) - In Niger, one of the poorest countries in the world, every year six million people out of 18 million inhabitants of the desert region of Sahel in West Africa, suffer from famine situations. Thank ...
• 18 June 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Attacks in Kaduna: the testimony of the Bishop of Zaria to Fides Agency Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "I was preaching during the second morning Mass, when around 9, we heard a loud explosion. The car bomb created a crater 2 feet deep, all around there was broken glass, rubble and burning cars ": ...
• 18 June 2012
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Khartoum authorities have occupied 3 Catholic schools and tried to confiscate a church where the faithful staged a sit-in Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Authorities in Khartoum have occupied three Catholic schools and tried to confiscate a church. This is what Catholic Radio Network (CRN) reported, which cites sources of the Sudanese Church. Ac ...
• 15 June 2012
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The dissolution of Parliament marks the breaking point between the military and the Islamist forces Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - On the eve of the June 16 presidential runoff, the Egyptian Constitutional Court ruling that declared unconstitutional all the articles of the electoral law with which the People's Assembly (the l ...
• 15 June 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - The rebels sabotage a pipeline: for the UN this "is a criminal act of intolerable war" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "A criminal act of intolerable war." Thus, the spokesman MONUSCO (United Nations Mission in Congo) has defined the sabotage of water pipes serving 5 villages in the Rutshuru area, in North Kivu ...
• 14 June 2012
  AFRICA - Children forced to eat locusts to survive famine Gao (Agenzia Fides) - According to the humanitarian organization World Vision, founded by an American missionary in 1950, which deals with development and emergencies, West African children are forced to eat locusts to s ...
• 14 June 2012
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - A multinational intelligence center to fight the guerrillas of the East Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The joint intelligence center of the International Conference for the Great Lakes Region (CIRGL), which has the task to fight armed groups acting in the area, was inaugurated in Goma, capital o ...
• 14 June 2012
  AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE - Still deaths in the West, "There are too many weapons in circulation" reports the Bishop of Man Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "The problem of insecurity is real, especially in areas bordering Liberia. There are too many weapons still in circulation, criminal gangs that attack villages and create roadblocks on the roads ...
• 13 June 2012
  AFRICA/LIBYA-Tensions in different parts of Libya, but the people want peace and tranquility Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) – There is growing tensions in different parts of Libya as a result of attacks and clashes between militias. In Misratha, a bomb hit the local headquarters of the International Red Cross, injuri ...
• 13 June 2012
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "Give back the $ 4 billion stolen from the State" enjoins President Kiir to 75 officials Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The Parliament of South Sudan has passed a resolution suspending 75 addressees of the letter from public office in which President Salva Kiir urges them to give back $ 4 billion stolen from state f ...
• 12 June 2012
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - The Salafists are few but well organized Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - "The Salafists are few but are concentrated in crowds in the places where they stage their protests. In this sense they make a bad impression" says to Fides Agency Fr. Jawad Alamat, National Direc ...
• 12 June 2012
  AFRICA/MALI - At least two armed groups deployed against the independence of northern Mali Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - The situation in northern Mali gets more and more complicated, which has been controlled for a few months by at least two rebel movements, the MNLA (National Liberation Movement of Azawad which p ...
• 11 June 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "We are dealing with a group of criminals, we are not dealing with ethnic and religious cleansing," said Mgr. Kaigama, who calls for caution Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We are dealing with a group of criminals who think that the Church is an enemy, because in their eyes it embodies Western culture. But I do not think that this is the vision of the majority of Mu ...
• 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 ...