Africa
20 January 2005
AFRICA/GHANA - Regional crisis, currency, common agricultural policy and electicity were some of the topics discussed by heads of state at a meeting of the Economic Community of West African Countries which ended today
Rome (Fides Service)- A summit meeting of CEDEAO/ECOWS, Economic Community of West African Countries, held in Accra, capital of Ghana, closed today with the nomination of Niger President Mamadou Tandja, as presidente of ...
19 January 2005
AFRICA/KENYA - Dominican Community and locals mourn US born missionary Thomas Heath who died of injuries sustained when thugs attacked a religious house in north west Kenya
Nairobi (Fides Service) - Yesterday 18 January the Dominican community in Nairobi gathered for the funeral of American born Dominican Father Thomas Richard Heath who died at the age 85 on January 13, in Aga Khan Hospital ...
19 January 2005
AFRICA/SUDAN - 10,000 UN peacekeepers to monitor peace in southern Sudan. Khartoum signs agreement with Opposition but peace for Darfur still a long way off
Khartoum (Fides Service)- After signing the peace agreement for southern Sudan the government of Khartoum reached a pact with the National Democratic Alliance composed of various Opposition groups mostly of northern Sud ...
19 January 2005
AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Right of expression and the role of the radio: seminar in Zimbabwe
Harare (Fides Service)- The Zimbabwe Association of Community Radio Stations will hold a Seminar to discuss ways to start a Community Radio in Zimbabwe where freedom of expression is seriously threatened, according to th ...
18 January 2005
AFRICA/UGANDA - UN High Commission for Refugees concerned for thousands of Congolese refugees in Uganda
Kampala (Fides Service)- According to the UN High Commission for Refugees UNHCR thousands of refugees pouring into Uganda Over the past few days say they are running away from fighting in the Ituri region of neighbouring ...
17 January 2005
AFRICA/CHAD - Catholic Bishops reflect on youth in society and in the Church
N’Djamena (Fides Service)- “Young people in society and in the Church” is the main topic on which some 40 Catholics Bishops of central African countries will reflect at the 7th plenary meeting of the Association of ...
17 January 2005
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Over 45,000 people welcome new auxiliary Bishop of Bukavu in eastern Democratic Congo
Bukavu (Fides Service ) - Catholics in Bukavu gave a warm welcome to the new Auxiliary Bishop François Xavier Maroy Rusengo on Sunday 16 January, during an outdoor mass celebrated at the Kadatu Concordia sports stadium ...
17 January 2005
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - South African president Mbeki continues his work of mediation but some Ivorian parties seem not interested in peace
Abidjan (Fides Service)- “President Mbeki is doing a good job but I am not sure that the Ivorians parties will let him finish the task” a local Church source told Fides with the regard to South Africa’s Thabo Mbeki ...
14 January 2005
AFRICA/KENYA - In the hell of Nairobi’s Korogocho slum Catholic sports centre cheers children of every faith
Nairobi Fides)- A Catholic sports centre in a typical symbol of Africa, a Nairobi slum. St John's Sports Society (SSS) was opened two years ago by Italian missionary Father Daniele Moschetti parish priest at St John’s ...
14 January 2005
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “Uncertainty about peace process in Congo one cause of Congo's falling currency” says Central Bank governor
Kinshasa (Fides Service)- Uncertainty with regard to peace is one of the main causes for the fall in value of the country’s Franc Congo, according to Jean-Claude Masangu, governor of the Congo Central Bank. Other cause ...
13 January 2005
AFRICA/KENYA - 19 killed in clashes: tribal strife or something more?
Nairobi (Fides Service)- 19 people were killed and many injured in recent tribal clashes in the semi-desert province of north east Kenya. Some of the injured were transported by air to Nairobi for treatment at the Kenya ...
13 January 2005
AFRICA/SUDAN - Now peace has come 750,000 children in southern Sudan need schooling, say Italian volunteers
Rome (Fides Service)- “Now peace has been made what is needed is education!” Italian development volunteers members of AVSI association of volunteers for international development operating in Sudan said after the re ...
12 January 2005
AFRICA/BURUNDI - Burundi famine alarm in north east. Thousands face food shortage. Tsunami and other emergencies test solidarity among peoples
Bujumbura (Fides Service) - A hunger alarm has been raised in northern Burundi. The government in Bujumbura says dozens are dying and thousands are in danger of starving to death in the provinces of Kirundo in the north ...
11 January 2005
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - African Union in favour of Ivory Coast referendum on Constitution “but rebels in the north disagree and seem to reject any idea of a united country” say Fides sources
Abidjan (Fides Service)- “I doubt conditions are right for the return of peace in Ivory Coast, indeed we see worrying signals which seem to indicate the continuation of the division of the nation” a missionary in the ...
11 January 2005
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Tension in Democratic Congo for possible postponement of elections. Situation in the east still critical. Catholic Bishop of Butembo-Beni says “150,000 people without humanitarian assistance. European Union must intervene”
Kinshasa (Fides Service)- Tension is high in Kinshasa, capital of Democratic Congo where yesterday 10 January at least four people were killed in clashes during a protest against possible postponement of political electi ...
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