Africa

• 20 December 2011
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - New explosions in the north; for the Bishops, "either one learns to live in peace or one perishes in violence" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – Still explosions in northern Nigeria attributed to the Boko Haram sect. On 18 December in Malikali, on the outskirts of Kaduna, capital of the State, at least one person died and several others ...
• 20 December 2011
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Typhoid, dysentery, cholera and malnutrition are the causes of infrastructure insecurity Harare (Agenzia Fides) - The diseases caused by contaminated water, such as typhoid, dysentery and diarrhea, are creating great concern in Zimbabwe. A possible revival of the cholera epidemic that in 2008 - 2009 killed m ...
• 19 December 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR- December 23 crucial day for the DRC? Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Military presence in Kinshasa is massive. So far there have not been major clashes, but the tension is evident", said local Church sources to Fides contacted in the capital of the Democratic R ...
• 19 December 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - "A part of the population justifies the attitude of the police in the name of the return to order" notes a missionary Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "A part of the area affected by the conflict, life proceeds normally in Cairo," says to Fides Fr. Luciano Verdoscia, a Comboni missionary who works in Cairo, where clashes between demonstrators an ...
• 17 December 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - More than 125,000 irregular armed fighters, divided into hundreds of militias: the complaint of a report Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - In Libya, there are 125,000 irregular armed fighters. According to a report by the International Crisis Group (ICG), which warns about the presence of hundreds of militias that control chunks o ...
• 16 December 2011
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - The Diocese of Bafatá celebrates ten years: "the virtue of hope has always illuminated our diocesan path " Bafatá (Agenzia Fides) – Mgr. Carlos Pedro Zilli, Bishop of Bafatá, issued a pastoral Letter addressed to the entire diocese that this year 2011 celebrates its tenth anniversary, having been founded by Blessed John P ...
• 16 December 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - "Publishing the minutes of the polling station to resolve disputes over the elections" a proposal from a missionary Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "There are data that vary from one source to another. There are seats that have not been accounted for. The only way out of this situation is to publish the minutes of the individual seats", sa ...
• 16 December 2011
  AFRICA/HAITI - Christmas also for the poor in Haiti, victims of the earthquake Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - At last, even the many poor, victims of the severe earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010, will celebrate Christmas through a program of government activity extended throughout the national ...
• 16 December 2011
  AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE - Victory of the President’s coalition Abidjan (Agenzia Fides ) - The coalition led by President Alassane Ouattara obtained 80% of the vote in the parliamentary elections in Côte d'Ivoire held on 11 December, according to official figures released today, Dec ...
• 15 December 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Clashes and tension awaiting the final announcement of the presidential vote outcome Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Kinshasa continues to be heavily guarded by the police, while waiting anxiously for the final announcement of the presidential election results by the Supreme Court before December 20, the dea ...
• 15 December 2011
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - The plague of Casamance and cocaine trafficking Dakar (Agenzia Fides) – Tension increases in Casamance, region of Senegal wedged between Gambia and Guinea Bissau, a "low intensity" theater of war since 1982 for the presence of an independence movement. On 13 Decembe ...
• 14 December 2011
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishop of Maiduguri does not confirm the tragedy attributed to the military, after yesterday’s failed attack Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "There is nothing official and I am not able to confirm that the military fired indiscriminately on the crowd", says to Fides His Exc. Mgr. Oliver Dashe Doeme, Bishop of Maiduguri, capital of the ...
• 14 December 2011
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - "There have so far been no particular reactions to the massacre in Florence," say sources of the Archidiocese of Dakar Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "The Senegalese radio and other media have clearly highlighted the murder of Senegalese citizens in Florence, but so far there have been no unusual reactions by the local population", sources of t ...
• 13 December 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - "The results of the vote held on November 28 are not conformed to truth or to justice," denounces Cardinal Monsengwo Pasinya Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The results of the vote held on November 28 are not conformed to truth or to justice", said Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Archbishop of Kinshasa, in a statement made public yesterday, De ...
• 13 December 2011
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - "We must make every effort to avoid the abyss of war": Bishops of Burundi’s appeal Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "We invite you to forcefully reject war and everything that could plunge back into violence in our Country. If we do not commit ourselves to doing everything in our power, there is a risk tha ...