Africa
14 June 2004
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “Faced with misinformation supplied by those who want war, we must let the moderates have their say” say Fides sources in Bukavu
Bukavu (Fides Service)- The situation of uncertainty remains in Bukavu main town in south Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, after rebel General Laurent Nkunda threatened to take back the city unless a commissio ...
12 June 2004
AFRICA/KENYA - “Katiba Kama Ilivyo”, Catholic radio programme in Nairobi informs people about final draft of new Constitution
Nairobi (Fides Service)- “Following a statement issued by the Catholic Bishops in March we wanted to help people understand the contents of the final draft of the new Constitution” Jesuit Father Ludwig Van Heucke tol ...
11 June 2004
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Military ‘coup attempt’ in capital Kinshasa fails. “Coup leaders miscalculated absence of presidential guard and President’s apparent loss of popular support” local sources told Fides
Kinshasa (Fides Service)- A ‘coup attempt’ in Kinshasa, capital of Democratic Republic of Congo appears to have failed. “The shooting has stopped. The state radio has announced that President Joseph Kabila is about ...
9 June 2004
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Who wants to increase tension in Ivory Coast and why?
Abidjan (Fides Service)- In Ivory Coast people are wondering who wants to increase tension and why after an incident during the night of 6 June when armed men attacked regular troops and French peacekeepers in Gohitafla ...
8 June 2004
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - “Caring for the sick helps me realise their agony and distress”, Camillian Missionary reports to Fides…
Ouagadougou (Fides Service) - “For some time now I have been working at the Centre for Care and Solidarity in Ouagadougou to replace a confrere away on a refresher course.
I came from the S. Camillo Medical Centre Oua ...
8 June 2004
AFRICA/CONGO RD - Bukavu: situation of confusion persists after official withdrawal of guerrillas. “Vexation of civilians continues ” say local Fides sources
Bukavu (Fides Service) - There is a climate of uncertainty and confusion in Bukavu the main town in the South Kivu region in the east of Democratic Congo, at the heart of a crisis which could throw the country back into ...
8 June 2004
AFRICA/MALAWI - Disappointment in Malawi when an Opposition candidate joins President’s Party
Lilongwe (Fides Service)- There is widespread disappointment in Malawi after an Opposition leader Gwanda Chakuamba, announced he had joined the party in power United Democratic Front UDF. Chakuamba came third in presiden ...
8 June 2004
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Is peace ever further way in Ivory Coast? Fighting in the north, fierce protest in the economic capital
Abidjan (Fides Service)-“Perhaps we are back to where we started. The peace agreement has been practically annulled” say local Fides sources in Abidjan, economic capital of Ivory Coast. “The national unity interim ...
7 June 2004
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Fresh fighting in Bukavu, martyr city in east Congo. Rwanda says it has closed its border with the Democratic Republic of Congo. Religious leaders call on politicians to stop the tragedy
Bukavu (Fides Service)- There has been a fresh outburst of fighting in Bukavu, main city of southern Kivu in eastern Democratic Congo for weeks the scene of conflict between the regular army and rebels of the RCD-Goma (C ...
7 June 2004
AFRICA/SUDAN - Darfur: huge humanitarian tragedy. More than 2 million refugees and internally displaced persons
Khartoum (Fides Service)- While the process for peace in Southern Sudan advances the emergency continues in the west region of Darfur, where fighting is causing tremendous suffering to civilians. On Saturday 5 June, in N ...
5 June 2004
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - People of Bukavu live in terror. “Manhunt for journalists and human rights activists” local sources inform Fides
Bukavu (Fides Service)- “It is not true that the rebels have withdrawn. They are still present in at least five districts of Bukavu” local sources told Fides in Bukavu, southern Kivu, in eastern Congo taken by rebels ...
5 June 2004
AFRICA/CONGO RD - Bukavu chronology of a tragedy. Another war imminent in Congo?
Bukavu (Fides Service)- Bukavu, a city with a population of 500,000, the main centre of southern Kivu situated on lake Kivu not far from the border, is at the heart of a new Congolese tragedy of which we give a brief chr ...
4 June 2004
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “The rebels have not withdrawn from Bukavu and they continue to terrorise the people ” local sources in the eastern city of Congo report
Bukavu (Fides Service)-“The rebels soldiers say they have withdrawn but this is not true. They have simply concentrated their troops in a few points, particularly near to a parish in the north of the city between a bee ...
3 June 2004
AFRICA/CONGO DR - The Congolese Bishops express alarm for the hundred thousand Congolese expelled from Angola and forced to survive in desperate conditions in southern Congo.
Kinshasa (Fides Agency) - The Congolese Bishops express their alarm for the Congolese people driven out of Angola (see Fides April 21st and April 26th, 2004). DIA Catholic Agency says that Bishops of the Ecclesiastic Pro ...
3 June 2004
AFRICA/CONGO RD - Bukavu. Enraged crowd plunders UN offices in four Congolese cities, accusing international troops of not having defended east Congo cities from the guerrilla
Kinshasa (Fides Agnecy) - An enraged crowd has attacked UN headquarters in four cities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (RDC). The demonstrators accuse UN forces of not having prevented occupation of Bukavu, in northe ...
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