Africa
13 May 2003
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “NEW OUTBREAK OF WAR IN CONGO IS NOT ACCIDENTAL, ONCE AGAIN ECONOMIC INTEREST ARE AT WORK” SAYS MISSIONARY
Kinshasa (Fides Service) – “At the very moment when the Democratic Republic of Congo strives to restore national unity, war is intensified” Father Francesco, Xaverian mission in Congo, tells Fides Service. The Ital ...
13 May 2003
AFRICA/BENIN - ARCHBISHOP MARTINO: AFRICA NEEDS NOT PITY BUT SOLIDARITY AND JUSTICE: TOO MANY ARE CONCERNED ONLY WITH EXPLOITING AFRICA’S RESOURCES
Cotonou (Fides Service) “Development cannot be built on conflicts, discrimination, rancour, exclusion, or the power of weapons. It demands harmony, solidarity, united efforts, justice, respect for others, for human dig ...
13 May 2003
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REP. CONGO - IN BUNIA APPARENT CALM CHARGED WITH TENSION. BISHOPS AND MISSIONARIES CALL ON INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO INTERVENE TO PREVENT MORE VIOLENCE
Kinshasa (Fides Service) – “In Bunia there is relative calm but ethnic revenge is feared” a Missionary of Africa in Congo tells Fides Service. The missionary, a White Father, asked not to be named for security reas ...
12 May 2003
AFRICA/UGANDA - REBELS ATTACK LACHOR SEMINARY: LOCAL BOY SEEKING SHELTER FROM REBEL TERROR KILLED, FORTY ONE SEMINARIANS TAKEN HOSTAGE, ARCHBISHOP ASKS THE WORLD TO PRAY
Kampala (Fides Service) – Forty one pupils at Lachor minor seminary (northern Uganda) were taken hostage by guerrillas of the Lord Resistance Army LRA during the night 10-11 May. The rebels also shot dead a local boy w ...
9 May 2003
AFRICA/KENYA - AT LEAST 20,000 HOMELESS AS TORRENTIAL RAINS CONTINUE: WEAKENED BY DROUGHT AND A FOOD CRISIS PEOPLE NOW FACE FLOODS
Nairobi (Fides Service) – There is no let up in the torrential rains which have been causing havoc in Kenya since the end of April. “The worst situation is in Baringo district in north Kenya” writers for CISA Catho ...
9 May 2003
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - VIOLENT FIGHTING IN ITURI REGION, PRIEST KILLED IN BUNIA
Kinshasa (Fides Service) – Violent fighting is reported in Bunia, in the Ituri region in north east Democratic Republic of Congo. The city has been attacked by thousands of Lendu warriors armed with fire, spears and ma ...
9 May 2003
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - UNITED NATIONS SAY 85 MILLION DOLLARS URGENTLY NEEDED FOR 3 MILLION VICTIMS OF WAR
Abidjan (Fides Service) – At least 3 million people are at risk because of war in Ivory Coast. This is reported by Carolyn McAskie, United Nations’ special envoy to Ivory Coast.
According to the United Nations in I ...
8 May 2003
AFRICA/UGANDA - MARGINALISATION AND NO ASSISTANCE FOR REFUGEES WITH AIDS
Kampala (Fides Service) – Refugee camps in Kyangwali, northern Uganda have no structures to treat people with AIDS. Displaced persons with HIV/AIDS or who fear they may be infected, are left to themselves and no one of ...
7 May 2003
AFRICA/KENYA - NOW THE NIGHTMARE OF MALARIA HANGS OVER A MILLION HOMELESS AS FLOODS INUNDATE EASTERN REGIONS OF KENYA
Nairobi (Fides Service) – At least one million people have been driven from their homes by severe floods in the eastern regions of Kenya. The provinces most affected are Nyanza and West province. A journalist of a loca ...
7 May 2003
AFRICA/KENYA - FLOODS STILL AN EMERGENCY: COUNTRY ASKS ITSELF HOW CAN SUCH DISASTERS BE AVOIDED
Nairobi (Fides Service) – It is still difficult to estimate precisely the number of people killed and the damages caused by floods which stuck Kenya at the end of April. So far about thirty people are reported to have ...
7 May 2003
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - SLOW RETURN TO NORMALITY: MISSIONARIES PICK UP THE PIECES AT SACKED AND LOOTED MISSIONS
Bangui (Fides Service) – “The situation in Bangui is now stable” a Comboni missionary in the Central African Republic, who prefers for security reasons to remain anonymous, tells Fides Service. “Since Francois Bo ...
6 May 2003
AFRICA/SENEGAL - VOICES OF WOMEN, CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM, AGAINST INTRODUCTION OF ISLAMIC RULES IN SENEGAL’S NEW CODE OF THE FAMILY
Dakar (Fides Service) – Increasingly heated the debate in Senegal with regard to a new family code. A number of Muslim associations aim to include rules of Islamic law; a possibility which meets with opposition from Ch ...
5 May 2003
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - HOW TO PUT AN END TO AFRICA’S WARS: SEMINAR AT CONGO’S CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY 7-11 MAY
Kinshasa (Fides Service) – In Africa there are many, too many forgotten wars. At present conflicts are bringing death and destruction to Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Nigeria, Angola, Sudan, Ethi ...
5 May 2003
AFRICA/CAMEROON - BAFIA - BISHOP ATHANASE BALA RESIGNS, REV. JEAN MARIE BALLA, APPOINTED BISHOP
Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, (15 April 2003) accepted the renunciation of the Pastoral Government of the diocese of Bafia, Cameroon, presented by Bishop Athanase Bala, C. S ...
5 May 2003
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - “CEASE-FIRE? REAL PEACE IS NOT SIMPLY THE ABSENCE OF FIGHTING. PEOPLE WANT A DECENT LIFE, LOOTING MUST STOP” SAY MISSIONARIES IN IVORY COAST
Abidjan (Fides Service) – “People can’t take anymore. The situation must change. It is not possible to live a situation of anarchy for months on end.” This is how missionaries in northern Ivory Coast describe the ...
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