Africa
3 September 2004
AFRICA - Info: main armed groups in the Great Lakes Region
Rome (Fides Service) - Various armies and guerrilla groups operate in the Great Lakes region of Africa, which comprises the countries of Democratic Congo, Rwanda and Burundi. The groups fight against or with each other a ...
2 September 2004
AFRICA/CHAD - Agreement signed by UN High Commission for Refugees and the government of Chad to guarantee safety of Darfur refugees
Rome (Fides)- In Chad the United Nations High Commission for Refugees UNHCR has signed an agreement with the government to guarantee the maintaining of a level of security and the civil nature of refugee camps and surrou ...
2 September 2004
AFRICA/SUDAN - Glimpse of peace for the crisis in Darfur. Government and guerrillas agree to protect 1.2 million refugees. But danger for humanitarian operators persist: Caritas worker injured
Khartoum (Fides Service)- There are glimpses of hope for a solution to the crisis in Darfur. Late yesterday evening 1 September the government of Sudan and the rebels reached an agreement to protect more than 1.2 million ...
31 August 2004
AFRICA/KENYA - The Word of God brings hope to prisoners facing death penalty or life imprisonment at Kamiti high state security prison
Nairobi (Fides Service) - Recently in Nairobi, the DSP Sisters, Daughters of Saint Paul, succeeded in carrying the Word of God to 4000 detainees at Kamiti maximum security state prison. In agreement with the chaplain the ...
30 August 2004
AFRICA/SUDAN - Catholic Bishops of Sudan appeal for Darfur: “If the government of Khartoum is unwilling to shoulder its responsibilities then we call for an immediate intervention by the international community ”
Khartoum (Fides Service)- “As Bishops we cannot overlook the annihilation of any ethnic group whatever their creed, nature or clan”, the Bishops of Sudan affirm in a declaration issued in late August with regard to t ...
30 August 2004
AFRICA - AVSI helps Africa (Associazione Volontari per il Servizio Internazionale): rehabilitation of child soldiers, professional training, feeding programmes, farming programmes
Rome (Fides Service) - For twenty years an Italian lay volunteer organisation AVSI, Associazione Volontari per il Servizio Internazionale has worked silently and diligently to alleviate suffering and to promote developme ...
30 July 2004
AFRICA/SUDAN - The situation in Darfur shows no sign of improvment: no food supplies since the end of May
Rome (Fides Service) - A nutrition survey in May and June in 4 refugee camps in Darfur revealed serious situation of under-nourishment varying between 4.1 and 5.5 %.
Although world politics and media are showing more i ...
30 July 2004
AFRICA/UGANDA - Ugandan Religious report to Parliament on war in northern Uganda
Kampala (Fides Service)- As a “sign of concern for the people in the north victims of civil war” Catholic Religious in Uganda recently presented the national parliament with a report on the war in northern Uganda. Th ...
30 July 2004
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Caritas- Mbujimayi brings relief to humanitarian crisis in Kasai, southeast Congo
Kinshasa (Fides Service)- The second Congolese war (1998-2003) affected mainly the eastern regions of Democratic Congo RDC, including east Kasai in the south east of the country where in recent years thousands of people ...
29 July 2004
AFRICA/CONGO RD - More clashes in east Congo. Fides say reported figure of 300,000 displaced persons is exaggerated
Bukavu (Fides Service)- The situation is uncertain and confused in South Kivu, the eastern region of Democratic Congo where, according to international media sources, more than 300,000 people are fleeing Kahele, 60 km fr ...
28 July 2004
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - At Soddo in southern Ethiopia, Capuchin Fathers run Crafts School backed by Italian Confederation of Craftsmen
Addis Ababa (Fides Service)- “Ever year 100 young people learn a trade or craft at our Professional Training Institute at Soddo, 400 km south of Addis Ababa” said Father Gianfranco, head of the Capuchin Marche Provin ...
27 July 2004
AFRICA/UGANDA - “Thank you Holy Father for remembering the war in northern Uganda” says Archbishop Odama of Gulu through Fides
Gulu (Fides Service)- “ Thank you Holy Father! The appeal launched by the Pope for the fighting to stop in northern Uganda and Sudan is an important contribution for peace”, Archbishop John Baptist Odama , Archbishop ...
27 July 2004
AFRICA/CONGO RD - “Mercenaries ready to intervene in east Congo” say Fides sources in Bukavu
Bukavu (Fides Service)-“At the moment all is calm but for how long?” local observers in Bukavu, main town in the eastern Kivu region of Democratic Congo told Fides over the phone. “There are rumours of fighting alo ...
27 July 2004
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Sacred Heart Missionaries mark 80 years of mission in Democratic Congo: an anniversary under the banner of hope
Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “Our place is with the people, sharing their poverty, helping to restore their hope, because life goes on”: this is how the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart see their mission in a booklet pu ...
26 July 2004
AFRICA/CHAD - Darfur: situation ever more critical for refugees in Chad. “two refugees killed in camp in Chad ” says UN High Commission for Refugees
Rome (Fides Service)- “The situation of Sudanese refugees in Farchana camp in east Chad is critical” United Nations High Commission for Refugees said in a statement dated 22 July. According to UNHCR two people were k ...
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