Africa
5 March 2009
AFRICA/SUDAN - International Crime Court orders arrest of Sudan President
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - “We have no word of the incidents or the violence against foreign presence in Sudan, nor against the Church; there are only various demonstrations taking place in the streets of Khartoum, in ...
4 March 2009
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Tension in Madagascar following unconfirmed news of the arrest of main opposition leader
Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) – Tension has once again arisen in Madagascar, where conflict continues between President Marc Ravalomanana and Andry Rajoelina, the mayor of Antananarivo who was removed from office. The s ...
4 March 2009
AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Regional implications of President Vieira's death: Senegal looks worried
Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - “The death of President Vieira is still an enigma, but two things can be said for sure: drug-trafficking played a role, although it may not be the only reason; the claim that the Head of State ...
3 March 2009
AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Assassination of Vieira: “the end of a twenty-year struggle between two protagonists in the life of the country or drug-trafficking,” a missionary tells Fides.
Bissau (Agenzia Fides) – In Guinea Bissau, in the wake of the deaths of President Joao Bernardo “Nino” Vieira and Chief of Staff Batista Tagme Na Waie (see Fides 2/3/2009), there are questions as to the reasons beh ...
2 March 2009
AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - President of Guinea Bissau assassinated; testimonies from Bissau
Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - “President Vieira's body was taken from the Presidential Residence by ambulance,” Agenzia Fides learned from sources at the Radio Sol Mansi, a Catholic radio station in Guinea Bissau, in conf ...
2 March 2009
AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Guinea Bissau and President Vieira: a synthesis
Bissau (Agenzia Fides) – President Joao Bernardo Vieira, who was assasinated today (March 2), in a military revolt, was one of the protagonists in the post-colonial history of Guinea Bissau, a Western African nation ma ...
27 February 2009
AFRICA/KENYA - “I urge you to plead to God for forgiveness of our sins, cause of our evils”: Lenten Message from Cardinal Njue, Archbishop of Nairobi
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - “It is already one year since the devastation, which was sparked off by post election violence, happened. Our brothers and sisters in internally displaced camps are still groaning under the su ...
26 February 2009
AFRICA/CONGO DR - “We're going to have to wait a few months to verify the results of the military operation,” missionary says following the retreat of Rwandan troops from Kivu
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - “Certain official declarations seem excessively optimistic and I think that they have been made in order to justify the joint military operation; however, we should look at the facts: it does ...
26 February 2009
AFRICA/SIERRA LEON - Three guerrillas indicted in Sierra Leon for repeated sexual offenses is “a first step towards justice” missionary tells Fides
Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - “This is a first step towards justice and reparation towards victims, which should be followed by more similar acts,” Agenzia Fides was told by Fr. Gerardo Caglioni, Xaverian missionary pre ...
25 February 2009
AFRICA/KENYA - A Lenten Campaign in support of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zimbabwe
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – The Jesuit School of Theology at Hekima College in Nairobi (Kenya) will be dedicating Lent 2009 to the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zimbabwe.
“In Zimbabwe, a political sta ...
25 February 2009
AFRICA/SOMALIA - Mogadishu conflict worsens, taking its toll on the population
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) – The fighting in the Somalian capital of Mogadishu continues to worsen by the minute, as government troops and Al-Shabab rebels continue their skirmishes. According to the most recent press r ...
24 February 2009
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Caritas of Nigeria issues an alert on the global economic recession and its impact on the large African nation
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - “We are deeply concerned about the current global economic recession and the consequences it has unleashed on an already impoverished Nigerian population especially coming on the heels of the re ...
24 February 2009
AFRICA/CONGO DR - What is happening in eastern Congo? A missionary tells Fides about the Congolese-Rwandan joint military operations
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – What is happening in North Kivu, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where since January there has been a Congolese-Rwandan joint military operation underway, to di ...
23 February 2009
AFRICA - Cholera epidemic in Malawi and Zimbabwe seems unstoppable
Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The cholera epidemic that has been effecting Malawi's capital of Lilongwe since November 2008, is rapidly expanding. According to the organization “Doctors Without Borders” (in Italian, MSF) ...
20 February 2009
AFRICA/KENYA - Two religious sisters kidnapped by Somali gunmen are freed, transferred to Nairobi in stable condition
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - “They treated us well. All they wanted was money.” This was what Sister Caterina Giraudo said immediately after being set free. She and religious Sister Maria Teresa Olivero were being held ...
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