Africa
22 November 2004
AFRICA/LIBERIA - Africa: pouring of refugees from one state to another continues to threaten stability in countries such as Liberia, trying to recover from a dramatic civil. At least 13,000 Ivorians have fled to north eastern Liberia
Monrovia (Fides Service)- “So far the flow of Ivorian refugees has not caused tension although local radios have appealed to United Nations forces in Liberia to be on guard to prevent Ivorian militia from recruiting am ...
22 November 2004
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - “The fight was with poachers not Sudanese guerrillas” local sources told Fides commenting an army intervention in which 16 people were killed after an attack on a village a hundred kilometres from the Sudanese border
Bangui (Fides Service) -“Local media and government authorities say it was a battle with poachers, not Sudan guerrilla groups” said local Church sources in the Central African Republic where on Friday 19 November 16 ...
20 November 2004
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Invasion of locusts combined with lack of rain destroys 90% of harvests in northern Burkina Faso
Ouagadougou (Fides Service) -Harvests in northern Burkina Faso will be 90% less because of an invasion of locusts. The situation is most serious in the province of Oudalan, which has borders with Mali and Niger. The wors ...
20 November 2004
AFRICA/TANZANIA - Great Lakes Summit participants sign declaration of commitment to work for “A region of lasting peace and security”. Catholic Bishops of Tanzania urge them to take the “path of dialogue”
Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides)- - Transform the Great Lakes region in an “area of lasting peace and security” was the goal established today 20 November by African heads of state taking part in the first Internationa ...
16 November 2004
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Anger and resignation after United Nations decision to impose sanctions on Ivory Coast
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides)- “There is anger and resignation with regard to the UN sanctions on Ivory Coast. Many people telephoned the state radio asking for the government’s reaction. The national radio announced that ...
16 November 2004
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Hope mixed with fear in East Congo awaiting outcome of Great Lakes Region summit while rumours of imminent assaults on Bukavu continue
Bukavu (Fides Service) -“They keep talking about peace while rumours of imminent assaults on the town continue” said a local source in Bukavu, main town in southern Kivu, in the east of Democratic Congo, in recent m ...
15 November 2004
AFRICA/UGANDA - Cease fire announced in northern Uganda: Bishop of Odama issues statement to Fides
Kampala (Fides Service)- “We thank President Museveni and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) for this important step towards peace” Archbishop John Baptist Odama of the northern Ugandan diocese of Gulu, also chairman ...
12 November 2004
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - An ethnic mosaic which threatens to explode
Abidjan (Fides Service) - Ivory Coast is a mosaic of different ethnic groups and religions at the edge of a precipice. Its present national crisis threatens to explode in civil war with unimaginable consequences. The peo ...
12 November 2004
AFRICA/BURUNDI - National Assembly appoints Vice president, a man of dialogue
Bujumbura (Fides Service)- The National Assembly of Burundi has appointed Frederic Ngenzebuhoro as new Vice President to replace Alphonse Marie Kadege, dismissed by President Domitien Ndayizeye (see Fides 11 November 200 ...
12 November 2004
AFRICA/ANGOLA - The hidden tragedy of mines in Angola: news which is “non news” for major world media
Luanda (Fides Service)- Every day at least 50 people are killed by anti-personnel mines and unexploded bombs. A silent tragedy which we want to reveal, news which is non news, events ignored by major world media channels ...
12 November 2004
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - “I witnessed the air strike on the French base” a missionary in Bouake told Fides: Water, electricity and telephone supplies resume
Bouake (Fides Service)- “Only God gives security. All the missionaries stayed at their posts with the people” a missionary in Bouake, the ‘capital’ of the area controlled by the New Forces rebels told Fides. “ ...
11 November 2004
AFRICA/BURUNDI - Burundians await appointment of new vice president
Bujumbura (Fides Service)- Burundians expect the new vice president to be appointed today, after President Domitien Ndayizeye (Hutu), dismissed his Tutsi deputy, Alphonse-Marie Kadege yesterday. “The appointment of Kad ...
11 November 2004
AFRICA/SUDAN - “More efforts from international community needed to end Darfur crisis” say Fides sources after agreement signed by Sudanese government and rebels
Khartoum (Fides Service)- “This agreement is temporary like many others in Sudan. We have seen so many agreements stipulated and then violated. What is needed to end the crisis in Darfur is more effort on the part of t ...
11 November 2004
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Growing atmosphere of insecurity: Europeans being evacuated, relative calmin Korhogo where rebels prepare to resist a government army assault
Abidjan (Fides Service)-“Compared with a few days ago the situation seems to be calm , but tension is still high” local sources in the economic capital of Ivory Coast Abidjan, told Fides over the phone with the noise ...
11 November 2004
EUROPE/AFRICA - First ever Symposium of African and European Bishops opens in Rome “an epochal event...a symposium with extended pastoral horizons”
Rome (Fides Service) - Welcoming the participants at the Symposium of African and European Bishops which opened yesterday afternoon 10 November in Rome, the president of SECAM Symposium of the Bishops’ Conferences of A ...
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