Africa

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  10 December 2022
  AFRICA/MALI - German humanitarian activist released after four and a half years of hostage detention Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - German aid worker Jörg Lange has been released after four and a half years of hostage detention. According to information from Der SPIEGEL, the Moroccan secret services in Mali acted as intermed ...
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  10 December 2022
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Story of Paolino, the cook of the nuns of Kanawat Kanawat (Agenzia Fides) - "Paolino was the cook of our community in the last ten years. He was a good man, and he also had some village-level responsibilities". Sister Laura Gemignani, a Comboni missionary, tells the sto ...
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  9 December 2022
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Ration cuts and price increases seriously affect refugees in Uganda Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - The living conditions of refugees continue to worsen due to the sharp reductions in food rations and the increase in prices. Sister Laura Gemignani, a Comboni missionary working in Kanawat, dioc ...
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  7 December 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - A "starred" cooking school for the children of the "Oasis of Mercy" Home Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - A cooking school inspired by a well-known Chef, and intended to offer qualified professional training and employment opportunities to young guests of the Oasis of Mercy in Cairo, a structure built ...
• 7 December 2022
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Three people detained in the US accused of financing separatist activities, including the kidnapping of Cardinal Tumi Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - The separatist conflict between the two English-speaking regions of Cameroon has an international dimension that has not yet been fully revealed. Last week, the US Department of Justice arreste ...
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  7 December 2022
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The answer to the prayers of the population arrives in the country that has never known peace Tombura Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - "The announcement of the Holy Father's visit is an answer to our prayer. The entire population of Sudan and South Sudan awaits the the Successor of Peter to come and step on the soil of o ...
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  6 December 2022
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Upper Nile: More than six thousand people forced to flee after the assault on the Aburoch reception camp Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "Here the fighting is very heavy and it is difficult to see the light of peace", explains to Fides Sr. Elena Balatti, Comboni missionary in charge of Caritas in the diocese of Malakal, in the Upper ...
• 6 December 2022
  AFRICA/MALI - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Rev. Jacques Damobe Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On September 22, 2022, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle appointed Rev. Jacques Damobe, of the archdiocesan clergy of Bamako as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in M ...
• 5 December 2022
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Thousands of people take part in the bishops' march for peace in the east of the country Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Our march has no political meaning, it aims to show the world that we are one people, united for the national cause, united for the sovereignty of our country and for the dignity of our people ...
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  5 December 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Disengagement of the Tigrinya forces: silence of arms for a peaceful return to daily life Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - The diplomatic breakthrough that led to the signing of the peace agreement on November 2 in South Africa and the disarmament agreement of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), signed ...
• 3 December 2022
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - National mourning for the massacre in a village in the east of the country; Sunday march for peace convened by the Bishops Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Three days of national mourning starting today, December 3, have been announced by Félix Tshisekedi, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, to commemorate the victims of the massacre i ...
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  3 December 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - In Tigray, disarmament is ready, but subject to the withdrawal of Eritrean and Amhara forces from the region Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - While efforts continue in Ethiopia to try to normalize the situation in Tigray after the signing of the peace accords on November 3, there are difficulties for a real disarmament of the part ...
• 2 December 2022
  AFRICA/GHANA - Ghana, so far spared from jihadist attacks, questions the threat of terrorism in the region Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "Dialogue has the potential to be a continuous stimulus for a greater understanding of the truth", said Fr. Lazarus Anondee, Secretary General of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Ghana (GCBC), ...
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  1 December 2022
  AFRICA/NIGER - Zankey Handuriya: the children's star, a small light of hope for blind children Dosso (Agenzia Fides) - After a year, Father Rafael Casamayor, together with two of his collaborators, managed to return to Gaya and spend some time with the blind children of the inclusive Catholic school in the city th ...
• 30 November 2022
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - More and more women in migratory flows: a conference in Ouagadougou Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - More and more women are part of the migratory flows from Africa. This is what emerges from the conference "Women, gender and migration" which is being held in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina ...