Africa

• 11 January 2007
  AFRICA/UGANDA - “Truth is the first victim of war and the first element to restore in view of peace”: Week of Prayer for Peace in Northern Uganda Kampala (Agenzia Fides)- “I testified how true it is that in every war the first victim is truth. The war in northern Uganda is no exception: the army and the rebels lie” Fides learned from a missionary in Northern U ...
• 11 January 2007
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Peace process in Cabinda enclave starts with disarmament and incorporation in regular army of former rebels Luanda (Fides Service) - Concrete steps in the Cabinda peace process included the destruction in early January of weapons belonging to the FLEC (Cabinda Liberation Front fighting for independence from Angola). The dest ...
• 10 January 2007
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Fighting in Somalia continues, situation in the capital Mogadishu still tense Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - Military operations in Somalia by Government troops and the Ethiopian army to oust the militia of the Union of Islamic Courts continue. Various air strikes are reported but it is not known whe ...
• 10 January 2007
  AFRICA/CHAD - United Nations High Commission for Refugees concerned about security situation of 220,000 refugees from Darfur N’Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - UNHCR remains extremely concerned over the security situation in eastern Chad, where there are more than 220,000 Darfur refugees and now over 100,000 internally displaced Chadians - 20,000 o ...
• 9 January 2007
  AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - “Economy is growing but balance of payments must be watched” says governor Central Congolese Bank Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- Stable the first half of the year, “turbulent” in the second. This was how the governor of the Central Bank of Congo Jean-Claude Masangu Mulongo described Congo’s economy in the past 12 mo ...
• 9 January 2007
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - “We must avoid adding fuel to the fire” says Catholic Bishop of Djibouti Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides)- “Prudence should guide all human activity. All the more in a country such as Somalia. This action could add fuel to an explosive situation” this was how Bishop Giorgio Bertin of Djibouti, w ...
• 8 January 2007
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “The Lord has planned a wonderful day for me”: last words of Cardinal Etsou, Archbishop of Kinshasa. His spiritual legacy: to work that Congo may be united in industrious peace Rome (Agenzia Fides)- “Cardinal Etsou lived the last hours of his earthly life peacefully and serenely” said Father Valer Shango who assisted to the end Cardinal Frédérick Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi, Archbishop of Kins ...
• 8 January 2007
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Christmas Eve first broadcast of new Catholic Radio Bakhita 91 FM, Voice of the Church, the first station of a network to serve every diocese in Sudan Juba (Agenzia Fides)- The Catholic Church in southern Sudan has a new voice: a radio station named after the country’s first saint Josephine Bakhita. The headquarters of Radio Bakhita, 91 FM are situated in Juba, capi ...
• 4 January 2007
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - “Support the Pontifical Mission Society of Holy Childhood on its feast-day the Epiphany” message from PMS national director Lusaka (Fides Service)- “Epiphany Sunday, the feast of the manifestation of the Lord’s Jesus, is at hand. I would ask all the brothers and sisters to continue a pray for the success of the Church’s missionary activ ...
• 4 January 2007
  AFRICA/SUDAN - SMS to help build hospital Turalei, in Africa’s most difficult port-war situation Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In Turalei, southern Sudan, not without difficulty, the Missionaries of Charity, sisters of Mother Teresa of Calcutta run a small medical dispensary with the help of a few volunteer doctors members ...
• 2 January 2007
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Somalia’s difficult transition to peace after last Islamic Courts Union stronghold falls Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - The future remains uncertain for Somalia, since Government and Ethiopian troops took the last stronghold of the Union of Islamic Courts. Government troops moved into Chisimaio (500 km south of ...
• 28 December 2006
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - “The clan mentality must be put aside if peace is to be restored in Somalia” says Apostolic Administrator of Mogadishu, Bishop Bertin Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides)- “This is a new chapter in Somalia’s chaos which will never end unless the international community makes more effort and the Somalis put aside the clan mentality once and for all” Bishop G ...
• 21 December 2006
  AFRICA/SOMALIA -Heavy fighting close to interim government headquarters, flow of Somali refugees continues Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides)- There is heavy fighting near Dinsoor, 100 km from Baidoa where the Somalia’s interim government has its headquarters. According to local sources the conflict is between troops of the Islamic ...
• 20 December 2006
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Advent with the World Youth Day Cross Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides)- “The cross and icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary which Pope John Paul II consigned to young people of the world at the end of the first World Youth Day in 1984 has arrived in Malawi” said Monf ...
• 20 December 2006
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - “39,000 former guerrillas still waiting to be integrated in civil society” says UN report Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) - Until it has its own national security policy Liberia will have to rely on UN troops to guarantee protection for its citizens. This is the sense of a report recently presented to the UN Securit ...