Africa

• 25 April 2008
  AFRICA - Facing the energy crisis, Uganda and Nigeria attempt to use their own uranium reserves to generate electricity Rome (Agenzia Fides) - From uranium suppliers to nuclear energy manufacturers. This is the transformation being attempted by Uganda and Nigeria, the latter being one of the most important uranium providers in the world. ...
• 24 April 2008
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Twenty new Nigerian missionaries sent out to different parts of the world participate in a course organized by the Pontifical Mission Societies Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Giving a new impulse to the missions abroad on behalf of the Catholic Church in Nigeria was the aim of the two-week Orientation Program held at St. Benedict’s Monastery, Ewu-Ishan, in Edo (Niger ...
• 23 April 2008
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Nunciature also suffers damages from further attacks on Bujumbura Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - “No one has been injured or killed and the material damages have been fairly minor,” sources from the Nunciature in Bujumbura told Agenzia Fides, after it was hit by a mortar explosion tha ...
• 22 April 2008
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Veterans of the war for independence, a threat to Zimbabwe’s future Harare (Agenzia Fides) - Are the veterans from the war for independence the President Robert Mugabe’s last card in the play for power versus the opposition? Judging by recent events, the answer would be “yes.” Firs ...
• 22 April 2008
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - “If nothing is done, we shall soon be witnessing genocide”: appeal from the Christian Churches of Zimbabwe to the international community Harare (Agenzia Fides) - Representatives from the Christian Churches in Zimbabwe have launched an appeal to the international community, asking that they intervene in their country’s crisis. In a statement sent to Agen ...
• 21 April 2008
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Peace returns to Bujumbura: “with their attack, the rebels have sent a sign; now they await a response” Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - After three days of fighting between the army and rebel forces of the Forces for National Liberation (FNL), peace and calm have returned to Bujumbura, Burundi’s capital city. “Yesterday, A ...
• 21 April 2008
  AFRICA/GHANA - “It is time for wealthier nations to rethink old-fashioned programmes of agricultural subsidies that penalize poorer nations,” says UN Secretary General Accra (Agenzia Fides) - “It is time for wealthier nations to rethink old-fashioned programmes of agricultural subsidies. Economists agree that they inhibit trade and disproportionately penalize poorer nations, contribu ...
• 17 April 2008
  AFRICA - Food emergency and hunger map Rome (Agenzia Fides) - 36 countries have been heavily hit by the increase in the cost of food supplies. Of these 36, 21 are in Africa, 9 in Asia, 4 in Latin America, and 2 in Europe. A study performed by the FAO, the Foo ...
• 16 April 2008
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - “Make an effort in maintaining a clean and honest vote”: Ivory Coast’s Bishops speak out following the announcement of upcoming presidential elections Abijan (Agenzia Fides) - “Now that the elections dates have been made public, we ask that the people of Ivory Coast begin working peacefully in preparation for the elections, that they may be clean and honest.” This ...
• 15 April 2008
  AFRICA/KENYA - A new era in the evangelization of Africa with the publication of the new Catechism of the Catholic Church, edited by the Kenyan Bishops’ Conference Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Following the publication of “The Catechism of the Catholic Church” and the “Compendium to the Catechism of the Catholic Church,” in English and Swahili (the two official languages in Ke ...
• 15 April 2008
  AFRICA - Faced with the “alimentary tsunami” that threatens the world, “handouts” are not enough - a worldwide plan is needed to give a boost to agriculture in Africa and other underprivileged areas Rome (Agenzia Fides) - International economic institutions are all hearing the same alarming news: the world is facing a serious food crisis that threatens to destroy the progress made, in recent decades, among the world ...
• 15 April 2008
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Cardinal Barbarin, Archbishop of Lyons, in Madagascar for the 50th anniversary of the Cistercian monastery of Maromby Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, Archbishop of Lyons, gladly responded to the invitation from the Cistercian monastery of Maromby, in Madagascar, to preside the 50th anniversary of its foundatio ...
• 14 April 2008
  AFRICA/KENYA - New Kenyan government must face Mungiki violence in protest of the death of the leader’s wife Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - “A government for peace,” read the front page article in the periodical “The Nation,” on the many-times reformed national constitution. On April 13, President Mwai Kibaki appointed oppos ...
• 14 April 2008
  AFRICA - Two missionaries killed in Kenya and Guinea remembered by the Holy Father Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The two missionaries remembered by Pope Benedict XVI in the recitation of the Regina Caeli on Sunday, April13 are Fr. Brian Thorp, Mill Hill missionary of 77 years of age, whose lifeless corpse was ...
• 11 April 2008
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - “We ask that a international mediator of the stature of Kofi Annan intervene in the Zimbabwean crisis”: appeal from Bishops of Southern Africa Harare (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Botswana, South Africa, and Swaziland (gathered at the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference), in a statement issued immediately prior to the Summit meeting of Southern A ...