Africa

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  5 October 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Need to separate presidential, legislative and local elections to overcome the crisis Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Joseph Kabila, confirmed on October 4 the postponement of the presidential elections which were to be held before 19 December, the expiry date ...
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  5 October 2016
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "Fighting at km5 after the killing of a military commander" report Fides sources Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - A Central African army chief, Marcel Mombeka, was killed yesterday morning near km5, the Muslim area of the Central African Republic capital, Bangui. During the ambush the military’s 14-year-ol ...
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  4 October 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Congolese crisis threatens to set fire to the whole area of the Great Lakes Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Besides the political instability experienced in the Democratic Republic of Congo there is also instability in peripheral areas, such as in Central Kasai (see Fides 26/09/2016) and especially ...
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  4 October 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Auxiliary Bishop of Juba: "There is no need to tell lies: people suffer. There is no peace without justice" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "There is no need to tell lies. They do not help us. This country is sinking. We need to get up and stand strong and say God help us to carve a new way, rather than denying the suffering of the peo ...
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  3 October 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Al Azhar will organize an international conference on peace with the participation of Eastern Churches Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Islamic University of Al Azhar will organize in early 2017, in cooperation with the Muslim Council of Elders, an international Conference on peace, coexistence and interreligious dialogue, whi ...
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  3 October 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Electoral Commission announces the postponement of the presidential and legislative elections to 2018 Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Presidential and legislative elections in November 2018. This is what was announced by the President of the Independent Electoral Commission (CENI), Corneille Naanga, to the participants in the ...
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  3 October 2016
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Restructuring of the Somali intelligence; Turkey announces the opening of its first base in the Country Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - 1,500 officers and intelligence agents in Somalia have been dismissed, including the head-center of the capital, Mogadishu. This was decided by General Abdullahi Gafow, according to whom the d ...
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  30 September 2016
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Chemical weapons used in Darfur? "Investigations need to be carried out", says an expert to Fides Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Between 200 and 250 people, mostly children, were killed in the course of several chemical attacks launched by the Sudanese armed forces in Sudan. This was denounced in a report by Amnesty Inte ...
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  30 September 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Rector of the Major Seminary of Tansi released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Emmanuel Dim, Rector of the Major Seminary of Tansi, who had been kidnapped on September 26 (see Fides 29/09/2016) has been released. This was announced by the Chancellor of the Diocese of Awk ...
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  29 September 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Rector of the Major Seminary of Tansi kidnapped Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Rector of Tansi Major Seminary, Fr. Emmanuel Dim has been kidnapped. This was reported by Fr. Hyginus Aghaulor, Director of Communication of the Diocese of Nnewi, in Anambra State in southeast ...
• 29 September 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of the Rector of the "St. Augustine" Major Seminary of Jos Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 8, 2016 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Rev. Mark Maigida Nzukwein, of the clergy of the Diocese of Jalingo as R ...
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  28 September 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - The Bishops: "Government subsidies to enable the poor to have access to higher education" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "We hope for a realistic plan of making it possible for the poor and working class families to have access to higher education after the year 2017", say the Catholic Bishops of South Africa ...
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  28 September 2016
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Migration in Africa: conference promoted by Catholic organizations Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - Senegal will host a regional meeting on intra and inter-regional migration in Africa, promoted by the Migration et Développement de la Société Civile en Afrique Network (MADE Afrique). Accordin ...
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  27 September 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "Risk of an imminent crisis" warns the UN Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Democratic Republic of Congo, whose President Joseph Kabila, yesterday September 26, was received in audience by Pope Francis, remains on the brink of the precipice, after the incident betw ...
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  27 September 2016
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - "No to the creation of the Ministry of National Guidance and Religious Affairs" say Catholics and Protestants Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholics and Protestants in Zambia have opposed the establishment of a new government Ministry of National Guidance and Religious Affairs. "In view of the various financial and economic chal ...