Africa
12 September 2007
AFRICA/GABON - Rising prices and “Dutch Disease”: Gabon affected by the “petroleum plague ”
Libreville (Agenzia Fides)- The government of Gabon has issued orders for the prices of some prime necessities to be kept under control for the next six months. The products include palm oil, sweetened concentrated milk, ...
12 September 2007
AFRICA/BURUNDI - Several thousand flee rebel attacks in north west Burundi
Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides)- About 4,000 people were forced to abandon their homes in Bubanza province in north west Burundi after attacks by the country's last rebel group National Liberation Forces FLN which has not ye ...
11 September 2007
AFRICA - Small hydro-electric plants, the key to electrifying rural Africa
Rome (Agenzia Fides)- Africa has enormous hydroelectric power still to be exploited. This is affirmed in a recently published study by Wim Jonker Klunne, expert in renewable energy. Only 7% of Africa's hydroelectric pote ...
11 September 2007
AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - “At least 50,000 people flee fighting in east Congo” says Italian Volunteer Service AVSI which has worked in the area for years
Goma (Agenzia Fides)- At least 50,000 are fleeing their homes to escape violence in north Kivu in Democratic Congo, caused by fighting between the regular army and rebels led by Laurent Nkunda which started at the end of ...
10 September 2007
AFRICA/BURUNDI - Ordination of new Catholic Bishop of Bururi: among those present Burundi's principal authorities
Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides)- A joyful crowd welcomed the new Bishop of Bururi, in Burundi. Bishop Venant Bacinoni who was ordained on Saturday 8 September in Kabuye sports stadium.
Civic authorities present for the occa ...
10 September 2007
AFRICA - International Telecommunication Union secretary general wants “Marshal Plan" for telecommunications in Africa
Roma (Agenzia Fides) - A “Marshal Plan" for telecommunications is what the Secretary General of the Geneva based International Telecommunication Union hopes for Africa. Mali born Hamadoun Touré said this when he prese ...
8 September 2007
AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Polling stations open for 2nd round of presidential elections. Catholic Bishops call for “Non-violence. Strive for unity and harmony”
Freetown (Agenzia Fides)- In Sierra Leone polling stations opened for the second round of presidential elections (see Fides 7 September 2007). Some 2.6 million eligible voters are called to cast their ballots in 6,150 st ...
8 September 2007
AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - “Thousands continue to flee from violence in north Kivu” says United Nations High Commission for Refugees
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- In the province of north Kivu in the east of Democratic Congo thousands continue to flee the latest outbreak of fighting between government troops, rebels and militia groups which refuse to inte ...
7 September 2007
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Three local Camillian priests ordained: “Your chose us Lord to serve your presence”
Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - This was the verse on the invitation to the ordination of nine new priests in the diocese of Koudougou on, by curious providential coincidence, the 7th of the 7th , 2007. Seven has always be ...
7 September 2007
AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - “The country is tired of empty promises” says missionary on the eve of second round presidential elections in Sierra Leone
Freetown (Agenzia Fides)- Tomorrow 8 September Sierra Leone will hold second round presidential elections. In the first round on 11 August opposition candidate Ernest Bai Koroma obtained 44% of the votes and outgoing vi ...
6 September 2007
AFRICA - Lighting Africa: World Bank proposes to supply Sub-Saharan Africa with electrical power using new means
Rome (Agenzia Fides)- To supply modern lighting to over 250 million Sub-Saharan Africans by 2030 in an ecological and inexpensive manner without the use of fossil fuel is the goal of a 'Lighting Africa' initiative launch ...
6 September 2007
AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - East Congo: “A spark of hope for negotiations although fighting continues”
Goma (Agenzia Fides)- "There is some hope for negotiations, according to local radio stations Nkunda has said he is ready to talk with the government" Fides was told by a missionary in North-Kivu, eastern Democratic Con ...
6 September 2007
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - After caring for the sick for 35 years, a Camillian missionary leaves Ouagadougou
Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - “At the end of this month of September I will leave the Camillian Mission in Burkina Faso”. These are the first words of a letter of good bye which Camillian Fr. Giovanni Grigoletto, ad ...
5 September 2007
AFRICA/D. R. CONGO “Who is funding for the new war in Congo?” a missionary asks in a dramatic report to Fides
Goma (Agenzia Fides)- Fides received a dramatic report from a missionary in north Kivu, Democratic Congo, where fierce fighting between the regular army and the rebels led by Laurent Nkunda has continued for several days ...
4 September 2007
AFRICA/BURUNDI - Heavy fighting in a district of the capital between two rival factions of the National Liberation Forces, thousands of homes abandoned
Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - Heavy fighting broke out this morning in the Buterere district, in north Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi. The fighting was between two rival factions of the National Liberation Forces, FNL, ...
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