Africa

• 21 July 2010
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Formative project for “young talents” from poor families Yaounde (Agenzia Fides) - Brilliant high school students in the upper classes living in isolated rural areas, or from poor families in urban districts, may have a chance to change their future through a 3 year 2010-2012 ...
• 21 July 2010
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Xaverian missionaries and the building up the local Church, today “dynamic and resourceful” Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - July 8 marked the 60th anniversary of the arrival of the first Xaverian Missionaries in Sierra Leone (see Fides 7/7/2010). In all these years they contributed considerably to building up the ...
• 21 July 2010
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - As many as 95% of children with a right to vaccination against measles, are not vaccinated; 758 registered deaths in 2009 Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – Since 2009 southern Africa is tackling a serious epidemic of measles which has already taken 758 lives, mainly in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Namibia, Lesotho and South Africa. According to ...
• 20 July 2010
  AFRICA/SÃO TOMÉ - Less poverty, more development: “the Church must never be afraid to evangelise ” São Tomé (Agenzia Fides) – “ While not overlooking the role of governments and various institutions active in the social field, with freedom and courage the Church must assume her prophetic role to proclaim the Gos ...
• 19 July 2010
  AFRICA - Peace, respect for human life and human rights, intercultural and interreligious dialogue: agreement between African Union and Community of S. Egidio Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - A Protocol of agreement for cooperation between the Community of S. Egidio and the Commission of the African Union was signed on Thursday 15 July at the African Union head offices in Addis ...
• 19 July 2010
  AFRICA/TOGO - New paediatrics and neonatology departments in the poorest part of the country at Afagnan Hospital Afagnan (Agenzia Fides) - Two new departments, paediatrics and neonatology, complete with the modern equipment will soon be opened at Saint John of God Hospital at Afagnan in Togo. A hospital recently nominated Ambassado ...
• 17 July 2010
  AFRICA - Mobility of Africans must be an opportunity for human promotion rather than exploitation Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Africa today is home to almost one billion people, (14.8% of the entire world population). According to the United Nations, by 2050 Africans will number almost 2 billion, a little less than one qua ...
• 16 July 2010
  AFRICA/UGANDA - This coming Sunday, in churches across the country, special prayers will be said for the victims of the July 11 bomb blasts Kampala (Agenzia Fides) – “ We appeal to all aggrieved parties in our society to renounce violence as a means of solving conflicts and whenever there are misunderstandings, let people embrace dialogue in the resoluti ...
• 15 July 2010
  AFRICA/R. D. CONGO - “ Without peace, it is impossible to see the way forward ”: Congress on Peace in Uvira Uvira (Agenzia Fides) - In the diocese of Uvira in the Democratic Republic of Congo there has been no peace for over seven years and “without peace, it is impossible to see the way forward, or even rebuild the region� ...
• 13 July 2010
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Who will help children victims of guerrilla warfare? Lira (Agenzia Fides) – Hundreds of children, victims of years of war in northern Uganda are denied urgent assistance because of lack of funds and adequate medical service, according to the Northern Uganda Transitional ...
• 13 July 2010
  AFRICA/SWAZILAND - Precarious healthcare system prevents reduction of mother-infant HIV transmission Mbabane (Agenzia Fides) – Swaziland has made great progress towards reducing mother-infant transmission of HIV, however local health workers fear this progress may be halted or even reversed unless local basic medical ...
• 12 July 2010
  AFRICA/NIGER - Child malnutrition rate increases 42% Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Nearly 17 percent of Niger's children younger than five suffer acute malnutrition, a 42 percent increase over the same period last year, according to a national survey released by the government. ...
• 10 July 2010
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - As population grows, Church faces more challenges Bissau (Agenzia Fides) – The final results of General Census of Population and Housing of Guinea Bissau, submitted July 9, opens a new page for a new distribution of religious assistance to Catholic communities in the ...
• 8 July 2010
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Episcopal ordination of Bishop Raymond Ahoua, FDP for Grand Bassam Grand Bassam (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday, July 4, the Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Ambrose Madtha ordained the new Bishop of the Diocese of Grand Bassam, Bishop Raymond Ahoua, of the Congregation of the Sons of Providen ...
• 8 July 2010
  AFRICA/KENYA - Child malnutrition rate lowered in refugee camps in Kakuma Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – Aid workers in a camp for some 80,000 refugees in northwest Kenya have in six months slashed acute child malnutrition rates by doubling the provision of nutritional supplements, scaling up fee ...