Africa
4 February 2008
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Catholic Bishops of Southern African condemn police raid on Methodist church sheltering Zimbabwe refugees
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of Southern African have condemned a police raid on Johannesburg's Central Methodist Church which was providing shelter for refugees from Zimbabwe. Cardinal Wilfrid Nap ...
1 February 2008
AFRICA/KENYA - Kenya Analysis Part I: The crisis in Kenya should mark a turning point in African Union policy: the dangers are too great just to sit and watch
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The dramatic situation in Kenya should force the African Union to revise its policy of intervention for African crises. It can no longer look the other way. After Darfur, Zimbabwe, Somalia, Cong ...
30 January 2008
AFRICA/KENYA - Hope stirred by the meeting between Kibaki and Odinga should mean improved security in the country
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- Cautious hope was felt in Kenya after the meeting on 29 January between the president Mwai Kibaki and Opposition leader Raila Odinga, in the presence of former UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, c ...
29 January 2008
AFRICA/KENYA - Murdered Kenyan MP was a Catholic social activist
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- “Mugabe Were a Catholic social activist, shot dead yesterday outside his home, was married to an Italian women from Lecce” local Church sources in Kenya told Fides. Mugabe Were was an MP for ...
29 January 2008
AFRICA/KENYA - “There is a split in the President's ethnic group: crisis more complex than it appeared”
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- Grave escalation of the Kenyan crisis: for the first time army helicopters opened fire to disperse angry mobs in Naivasha city, Rift Valley, 90 km from Nairobi, the centre of violence in recent ...
25 January 2008
AFRICA/KENYA - Opposition leader Odinga meets President Kibaki, but violence continues
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- “This was a good sign, but there is still long way to go to reach pacification ” said a local Catholic source in Nairobi after Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga ...
25 January 2008
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - This year's floods worse than 2000 for quantity of harvest loss
Maputo (Agenzia Fides)- Over 180,000 homeless of whom 57,000 have lost everything. This is the result of floods in Mozambique this year which are worse that those in 2000/2001, according to Françoise Le Goff head of Red ...
24 January 2008
AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - An American peace for east Congo?
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- On January 23 at the end of negotiations, postponed several times, the warring parties in north and south Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, signed an agreement for an immedi ...
24 January 2008
AFRICA/KENYA - Catholic Bishops of Kenya express “full support” for Annan as mediator and ask for immediate cessation of violence
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- “It is not too late, however, for our leaders to change their ways and to talk to each other. This is not the time to pass the buck with regard to who is right or wrong. For this reason, we giv ...
24 January 2008
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Metropolitan Archbishop of Addis Ababa expresses solidarity with Pope Benedict XVI
Addis Abeba (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Berhaneyesus D. Souraphiel CM Metropolitan Archbishop of Addis Abeba, President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Ethiopia sent the following message expressing solidarity wi ...
23 January 2008
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Growing demand for electricity and power cuts affected millions in southern Africa
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides)- Interruption of electricity supplies are having serious repercussions on southern African countries. The situation is most critical in Zimbabwe, where people already suffer from an economic ...
22 January 2008
AFRICA/SOMALIA - Towards a divided Somalia?
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides)- While the crisis in central southern Somalia becomes ever more acute, Somaliland (northern region self-proclaimed independent in 1991) receives signals of possible international acknowledgement ...
22 January 2008
AFRICA/KENYA - Clashes in Kenya continue, situation of displaced persons ever more serious, expectation for mediator Kofi Annan
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - While Kenya awaits the arrival of former UN secretary general Kenya Kofi Annan, charged by the African Union to head a delegation to mediate the political crisis, clashes continue between the p ...
21 January 2008
AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - Kivu peace Conference due to close but fighting continues
Goma (Agenzia Fides)- The 22 January should mark the closing of a Conference for peace in north and south Kivu being held in Goma, main city of northern Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (see Fides ...
21 January 2008
AFRICA/KENYA - “ In chaos of political clashes crime thrives”
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- “Life in Nairobi has returned to normal although in the slums there are still areas of tension” said a local Church source asking not to be named for security reasons.
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