Africa
7 October 2004
AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Apparent calm in Bissau after a military revolt in which the staff officer and army spokesman were killed. Latest episode of violence in the country of hunger
Rome (Fides Service)- “There is apparent calm in teh city no soldiers to be seen, but not many children have gone to school, most families felt it was safer to keep them at home” local sources in Bissau who ask not ...
6 October 2004
AFRICA/SUDAN - More diplomatic efforts to solve crisis in Darfur: British Premier in Khartoum, Libyan leader Gheddafi calls regional min-summit
Khartoum (Fides Service)- British Prime Minster Tony Blair starts a five-day visit to Sudan today, 6 October. He will meet the Sudanese President Omar al-Bechir and Vice president Ali Osmane Mohamed Taha and one central ...
6 October 2004
AFRICA/BURUNDI - Tension in northern Burundi: at least 1000 Tutsi flee to Rwanda to escape violence
Bujumbura (Fides Service) - Although more than one thousand Burundi Tutsi have taken refuge in Rwanda to escape violence, neither the national press nor by the Burundian government have made any reference to the events, ...
6 October 2004
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Health care alarm in northern Ivory Coast with rapidly spreading HIV/AIDS. Local Catholic Church supplies medical personnel and supplies to isolated areas
Abidjan (Fides Service)- “The healthcare situaiton is critical” local church sources in northern Ivory Coast area in the hands of New Forces rebels for two years now. “The public health system has collapsed. Hospi ...
5 October 2004
AFRICA - In Uganda 39 African countries discuss how to stop spread of light arms in Africa.
Kampala (Fides Service)- To find ways to stop the spread of light arms in Sub-Saharan Africa defence Ministers and chiefs of security from 39 different countries of Africa are meeting in the Ugandan capital Kampala. The ...
5 October 2004
AFRICA/SOMALIA - “A year after Annalena Tonelli’s death, her life’s work is more than ever alive”: Bishop Bertin of Djibouti recalls the Italian doctor dedicated to caring for TB sufferers in northern Somalia
Rome (Fides Service)- “Annalena Tonelli’s work continues beyond all expectations” Bishop Giorgio Bertin, Bishop of Djibouti and Administrator Apostolic Mogadishu told Fides, referring to the Italian doctor killed a ...
5 October 2004
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “Street children are hunted” Salesian fathers give details of massacres in southern Congo
Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “Street children are hunted here and probably between 20 and 30 of them have already been killed” a Salesian missionary in the south eastern Congo region of Kasai where a group of street chi ...
5 October 2004
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Eucharist, Jesus source of Life and Peace in the heart of Africa. Sacramentini Fathers open Eucharistic Spirituality Centre in Kinshasa
Kinshasa (Fides Service)- To ensure that the Eucharist, source of Life and Peace, is at the heart of Africa and to help Christian communities focus on the Eucharist the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament has opened a ...
1 October 2004
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - 10 million dollar programme to disarm rebels fails, only 32 men hand weapons to UN troops. UN mission in eastern Congo expires today. Towards an agreement to extend its mandate and boost its numbers
Kinshasa (Fides Service) - A French proposal to send another 5,900 UN peacekeepers to Congo and extend its mandate has met with approval. The UN mission in Congo MONUC, consisting of 10,500 men deployed in the east of th ...
1 October 2004
AFRICA/BURUNDI - “Referendum on new Constitution postponed for technical reasons” according to Fides sources
Bujumbura (Fides Service) -“The referendum on the new Constitution was postponed for reasons which were purely technical and have nothing to do with politics” local sources in Bujumbura, capital Burundi, told Fides w ...
30 September 2004
AFRICA - World Food Programme warns: 2 million people in 3 southern African countries face food emergency early next year
Rome (Fides Service) - The World Food Programme has appealed for 78 million US dollars to guarantee emergency food aid to about 2 million people in Lesotho, Malawi and Swaziland, three small nations in southern Africa. A ...
30 September 2004
AFRICA/LIBERIA - UNHCR starts repatriation of 340,000 Liberians. The largest repatriation programme as yet
Rome (Fides Service)- A three-year programme to help the return to Liberia of about 340,000 refugees, who fled the country because of 14 years of civil war, starts on Friday 1 October. This is the largest such programme ...
29 September 2004
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Niger Delta twixt oil and Ijaw claims
Lagos (Fides Service)- The leader of a Nigerian rebel group which threaten to sabotage oil production in Niger Delta is in Abuja, capital of Nigeria, for talks with the government.
Mujahid Dokubo Asari, leader “Nige ...
28 September 2004
AFRICA/SUDAN - “Darfur is not the only tragedy, all over Sudan the situation is precarious and dangerous, Bishop Gassis Catholic Bishop of El Obeid tells Fides
Rome (Fides Service)- “The world is rightly concerned for the situation in Darfur, but that tragedy threatens to make people forget there are other crisis areas in Sudan” Bishop Macram Max Gassis, Catholic Bishop of ...
28 September 2004
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Catholic Bishops of Nigeria: “We thank God that more lay Christians are becoming involved in politics”
Lagos (Fides Service)- “We thank God that more lay Christians are becoming involved in politics and are occupying various posts. We congratulate those of them who have been trying to be true witnesses of justice and pe ...
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