AFRICA/UGANDA - No more permits for uranium mining in Uganda
Kampala (Agenzia Fides)- Uranium mining in Uganda has been stopped. President Yoweri Museveni told the minister of energy not to stipulate any more agreements for the extraction of uranium and to open an agency for nucl ...
18 July 2007
AFRICA/ANGOLA - Angola soon a major telematic point in southern Africa
Luanda (Agenzia Fides)- Angola, Namibia and Botswana have started contact to create an optical fibre network among their three countries. On 17 July in Luanda, members of the telecommunications ministries of the three co ...
AFRICA/SOMALIA - UNHCR starts transfer of 500 Ethiopian refugees to Somalia
Roma (Agenzia Fides) - The United Nations High Commission for Refugees, UNHCR has begun operations to transfer a group of 500 refugees who fled conflict central in southern Somalia, according to a UNHCR report sent to Fi ...
AFRICA/NIGERIA - A new Home for girls victims of slave trade
Benin City (Agenzia Fides)- “A dream come true! A dream shared by many for many years is at last a reality ” says Sr. Eugenia Bonetti, Consolata Missionary and co-ordinator of the Union of Major Superiors' Office Aga ...
12 July 2007
AFRICA/TANZANIA - Interpol warns: Africa is being invaded by drugs
Arusha (Agenzia Fides)- “The global situation of drug trafficking in Africa has become worse in recent years especially with an explosion of cocaine trade between south America and Africa” Jean-Michel Louboutin, exec ...