Africa

• 28 October 2003
  AFRICA/KENYA - INFRASTRUCTURES FOR DEVELOPMENT CENTRAL THEME OF NEPAD MEETING Nairobi (Fides Service)- Development policies in East Africa will be the main subject for discussion at the regional meeting of NEPAD New Partnership for Africa’s Development which opens tomorrow 29 October in Nairobi ...
• 28 October 2003
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - “JUSTICE AND TRANSPARENCY IN ELECTIONS”: IN VIEW OF IMMINENT POLL CATHOLIC BISHOPS ISSUE MESSAGE TO THE NATION Maputo (Fides Service)- “We call on all Mozambicans to reflect on the social and economic reality in which we live and to assume their duty to choose, by means of elections, candidates able to find solutions to the pro ...
• 27 October 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - AS NORMALITY GRADUALLY RETURNS IN CONGO RWANDAN ARMY STILL IN THE EASTERN REGION. 800 LOCAL BOYS RECRUITED FOR MILITARY TRAINING IN RWANDA Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “It is difficult to believe Rwanda’s statements denying the presence of troops in this part of Democratic Congo” say local missionaries in north Kivu where representatives of the civil so ...
• 27 October 2003
  AFRICA/SUDAN - SUDAN PEACE IN SIGHT BUT SOME MATTERS REMAIN TO BE SETTLED BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND REBELS Khartoum (Fides Service)- There are growing hopes that peace in Sudan may be in sight at last. US Secretary of State Colin Powell has said he is convinced that peace in Sudan will be signed before the end of the year, � ...
• 24 October 2003
  AFRICA/KENYA - ELEVEN AFRICAN HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT TO MEET IN NAIROBI TO DISCUSS HOW TO GUARANTEE LASTING DEVELOPMENT Nairobi (Fides Service) – Presidents or heads of government of Burundi, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Maurizio, Rwanda, Sudan, Somalia, Tanzania e Uganda, will meet on Wednesday 29 October in the capital of Kenya ...
• 23 October 2003
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - AFTER PROLONGED DROUGHT, TORRENTIAL RAINS: 15 MILLION, ONE QUARTER OF THE POPULATION, COULD DIE OF MALARIA BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) – Although good rains this year in Ethiopia may produce a good harvest, before the end of the year some 15 million of Ethiopia’s 66 million may die, not of hunger but of Malaria. This was ...
• 22 October 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - REBEL LEADERS AND TAYLOR’S MEN GRAB POSTS OF COMMAND; WAR CRIMES STILL GO UNPUNISHED Monrovia (Fides Service)-“The country seems to want change but those in command have not changed” Father Mauro Armanino, SMA, provincial Superior tells Fides with regard to the appointment of George Dweh president of ...
• 22 October 2003
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - “MURDER OF INTERNATIONAL RADIO FRANCE SYMPTOM OF CLIMATE OF VIOLENCE AND SUSPICION INTO WHICH IVORY COAST HAS BEEN PLUNGED” Abidjan (Fides Service) – Police have arrested a member of the security forces with regard to the death of Ms Jean Helene, Radio France International reporter, killed in circumstances still to be clarified on 21 Octobe ...
• 21 October 2003
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - INFO: 10 YEARS OF WAR Bujumbura (Fides Service) – More than 300,000 civilians killed in ten years of war in Burundi, which broke out on 21 October 1993, when a group of rebel militia assassinated Melchior Ndadaye, first president of Burundi ...
• 21 October 2003
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - PEACE PROSPECTS AFTER TEN YEARS OF WAR Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides)- “This is perhaps the most serious effort to restore peace in Burundi” a local Church source in Bujumbura, who remains unnamed for security reasons, told Fides Service, referring to peace ag ...
• 21 October 2003
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - HUMANITARIAN WORKERS IN SOMALIA TARGETED AGAIN: TWO BRITISH VOLUNTEERS FOUND DEAD ...
• 21 October 2003
  AFRICA/SUDAN - AT LEAST 100 DEAD AND 15,000 HOMELESS AFTER ATTACKS ON FIFTEEN VILLAGES IN WESTERN SUDAN Khartoum (Fides Service) – At least 100 people were killed and 15,000 forced to flee their homes when groups of armed bandits attacked 15 villages and torched homes in western Sudan. (Fides Service 21/10/2003 EM lines ...
• 21 October 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - KINSHASA NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE NOT THREATENED BY FLOODS SAY EXPERTS, BUT RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL COULD BE STOLEN Kinshasa (Fides Service) – There is no danger of erosion at the CRENK Regional Centre for Nuclear Studies adjoining Kinshasa University, DIA local Catholic news service reports. Experts say although the Centre is in a ...
• 20 October 2003
  AFRICA/MALAWI - FOOD EMERGENCY ACUTE SITUATION OVER. BUT POOREST PEOPLE STILL AT RISK. CATHOLICS OFFER FULL AID COMMITMENT Lilongwe (Fides Service) - Zambia and Malawi have overcome the acute stage of a serious food crisis affecting various southern African countries. In fact the UN World Food Programme WFP reports that cereal harvests were ...
• 18 October 2003
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - MISSION SUNDAY: REMEMBERING POPE JOHN PAUL II’S VISIT AND CELEBRATING HIS 25TH YEAR OF PONTIFICATE Dar es Salaam (Fides Service) – “Now it is your turn to be witnesses of Christ in Moshi diocese, in Tanzania the continent of Africa and to the ends of the earth”. These were Pope John Paul II’s stirring words du ...