AFRICA/RWANDA – PRESIDENT KAGAME WINS ELECTIONS
Kigali (Fides Service) - The President of Rwandan has won elections again. After winning presidential elections in late August with 95% of the votes, Paul Kagame has gained a victory with his coalition obtaining the abs ...
1 October 2003
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - COUNTRY IS NO MAN’S LAND RULED BY BANDITS
Abidjan (Fides Service) – Fresh outbreak of fighting in central Bouake. “It is impossible to say what is happening - local Fides sources say – it is too dangerous even to go out of the house. What is certain is tha ...
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - TOO MANY PROFIT FROM A COUNTRY CUT IN TWO
Abidjan (Fides Service) – “We are all very anxious to see the outcome of the government meeting this morning which rebels have refused to attend” local Church sources tell Fides asking not to be named for security ...
24 September 2003
AFRICA/NIGERIA - THE LOCAL CHURCH IS A PEACEMAKER
Rome (Fides Service) – “My concern is the good of all the people entrusted to my care, Catholics and non” Bishop Matthew Ishaya Audu of Lafia in the Nigerian state of Nasarawa told Fides Service. The Bishop on a vi ...
24 September 2003
AFRICA - DIFFICULT PATHS TO PEACE
Rome (Fides Service) – Africa is known to the general public for its humanitarian emergencies, its wars, its calamities. For a moment media attention is riveted on the continent, humanitarian organisations go into acti ...