Africa

• 4 February 2008
  AFRICA/KENYA - “The Holy Father's words come at a delicate: we have not lost hope for peace and reconciliation ” says National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- “The Holy Father's appeal for peace to return in Kenya was given ample space in the local media, in some papers it was on the front page” Fr. Eugenio Ferrari Consolata missionary and national ...
• 4 February 2008
  AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - New Archbishop of Kinshasa Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya installed with solemn Eucharistic Celebration Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- “Kinshasa, arise and shine in the light of Christ”. With these words addressed to the faithful, Archbishop Laurent Monsengwo, former Archbishop of Kisangani, was installed as Archbishop of K ...
• 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 ...