Africa

• 12 June 2003
  AFRICA/KENYA - LOOKING TO THE FUTURE, DESPITE FLOODS, STATE DEFICIT AND THREAT OF TERRORISM Nairobi (Fides Service) – At last the torrential rains which pounded Kenya for the past month have ceased. The most affected regions were in the east, particularly Nyanza Province and West Province. The situation has ...
• 11 June 2003
  AFRICA/MAURITANIA - VARIOUS HYPOTHESES ON ATTEMPTED COUP. EMERGENCY OVER. CELEBRATIONS FOR RETURN TO NORMALITY. NO DAMAGES TO CATHOLIC COMMUNITY Nouakchott (Fides Service) – Calm is returning to Nouakchott, capital of Mauritania after the attempted coup days ago (see Fides Service link 9 June 2003). According to local sources the people have taken to the street ...
• 11 June 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “WAR SOWS TERROR, DEATH AND DESTRUCTION. THE WORLD CANNOT STAND AND WATCH” URGENT APPEAL FROM BISHOP OF BUTEMBO BENI IN EAST CONGO Butembo (Fides Service) – An urgent call for help has been sent to Fides Service by Bishop Melchisedek Sikuli Paluku of Butemebo Beni diocese in the east Democratic Congo where rebel militia of the RCD-Goma, Rassemblem ...
• 10 June 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - 203,000 DISPLACED PERSONS CAMPED IN BUTEMBO-BENI DIOCESE WATCH WITH FEAR APPROACHING COMBAT Kinshasa (Fides Service) – As the peacekeeping force sent by the European Union deploys in Bunia, in the Ituri region, north-east Democratic Congo, ever more critical is the situation of displaced persons sheltering in ...
• 10 June 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - A COWARDLY WAR: VIOLENCE ON WOMEN! WE PUBLISH AN E-MAIL MESSAGE RECEIVED FROM CONGO Rome (Fides Service) – Here is a moving story of the courage and fidelity to the Gospel of a young woman who gave her life rather than succumb to violence by guerrillas. The tale was sent to Fides Service by the Peace ...
• 10 June 2003
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - CAPUCHIN MISSIONARIES FIGHT MICRO BACTERIA WHICH CAUSES BURULI SKIN DISEASE: AFRICA’S NEW LEPROSY Zouan-Hounien (Fides Service) – Capuchin Friars in Ivory Coast continue to work to organise monastery turned hospital centre where they assist thousands of people affected by Buruli tropical skin disease which devours ...
• 9 June 2003
  AFRICA/CHAD - RADIO DUJI LOKAR CALLS FIDES TO HELP STOP THE SLAUGHTER OF CENTRAL AFRICAN REFUGEES IN CHAD MOWED DOWN BY FAMINE Moundou (Fides Service) – There is alarm for the situation of Central African refugees sheltering in Chad, Radio Duji Lokar in Moundou (southern Chad) tells Fides Service. At least 22,000 people are camped in the borde ...
• 9 June 2003
  AFRICA/MAURITANIA - AFTER THE ATTEMPTED COUP FIGHTING CONTINUES. ISLAMIST EXTREMIST BEHIND THE COUP? Nouakchott (Fide Service) - The situation is still confused in Nouakchott, capital of Mauritania after an unsuccessful coup to oust President Maaouiya Ould Taya. Fighting continues between special forces faithful to the ...
• 6 June 2003
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - RECOGNITION OF PRESIDENT BOZIZE BY SOME NEIGHBOURS OPENS DOOR FOR SENDING OF INTERNATIONAL AID AND NORMALISATION OF THE COUNTRY Bangui (Fides Service) – The recognition of President Bozize by neighbouring countries which form CEMAC the Economic and Monetary Union of Central Africa, “is one more step towards the normalisation of the country” ...
• 6 June 2003
  AFRICA/RWANDA - GOSPEL CHARITY TO OVERCOME DIVISIONS AND CULTURE OF VIOLENCE IN ORDER TO BUILD A NEW SOCIETY Kigali (Fides Service) – “Charity is the means for overcoming the hatred and division which persist the country and we offer a small but significant contribution in this direction” says Marie Grace Mukabyagaju, pre ...
• 5 June 2003
  AFRICA/TOGO - EYADEMA RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT: TENSION FOLLOWS ACCUSATIONS OF ELECTORAL FRAUD Lome (Fides Service) – Gnassingbe Eyadema has been re-elected President of Togo for another five year term. This was confirmed on 4 June by the National Independent Electoral Commission, which announced that the Presid ...
• 5 June 2003
  AFRICA/CONGO - “EUROPEAN PEACE KEEPING FORCE IS WELCOME IN CONGO, BUT PERHAPS THE INTERVENTION COULD HAVE COME EARLIER” Kinshasa (Fides Service) – “The decision to send a European peacekeeping force to Ituri is a positive fact but we cannot overlook another fact that the international community did nothing two months ago when the civi ...
• 4 June 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA - “THE BEAUTIFUL FACE OF A CHURCH ALIVE AND DYNAMIC” DESCRIBED BY CARD. CRESCENZIO SEPE WHEN HE MET UGANDAN BISHOPS Kampala (Fides Service) – At the end of his pastoral to Uganda, this morning, June 4, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, had a meeting with the Ugandan Bishops’ ...
• 4 June 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - GHANA HOSTS PEACE TALKS BETWEEN LIBERIAN GOVERNMENT AND REBEL GROUPS: US CATHOLIC BISHOPS VOICE SOLIDARITY WITH VICTIMS OF LIBERIA's CIVIL WAR Monrovia (Fides Service) – Peace talks between the Liberian government and rebel groups opened on June 4 at Akosombo (Ghana). The 2 rebel groups are: Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy, LURD and the Move ...
• 3 June 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA - MAY THE EXAMPLE AND INTERCESSION OF THE MARTYRS OBTAIN FOR UGANDA AND THE WHOLE OF AFRICA THE GREAT GIFTS OF FAITH AND PEACE: CARDINAL SEPE CELEBRATES MASS AT THE SHRINE OF UGANDA’S MARTYRS Kampala (Fides Service) – “The martyrs of Uganda have in common the following of Christ as disciples modelling their life on the words of Jesus, as apostles they offered the gift of conversion to others by becoming m ...