Africa

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  2 September 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishops: “foreign debt is a new form of slavery for present and future generations” Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – “The debt burden has turned out to be a new form of enslavement if present and future generations” say the Bishops of Nigeria, in the statement published at the end of their second Plenary A ...
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  2 September 2024
  AFRICA/EGYPT - After reaching a military agreement with Somalia, Cairo warns Ethiopia about the filling of the Nile dam Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "We are ready to exercise our right to defend and protect the rights and interests of the Egyptian people, in accordance with the UN Charter." This is the warning issued by the Egyptian government ...
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  31 August 2024
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Diocese of Lodwar, where the second largest refugee camp in Kenya lies Nairobi (Fides News Agency) – "My diocese is essentially an area for first evangelization that also houses over 250,000 refugees from neighboring countries, South Sudan, Sudan, Burundi, Uganda, Somalia, Ethiopia", Fide ...
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  30 August 2024
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Egypt and Somalia's military agreement alarms Ethiopia Mogadishu (Fides News Agency) – "The region is entering uncharted waters" a note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia warned, in reference to the new situation developing ...
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  26 August 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The 20 students kidnapped on August 15 have been freed Abuja (Fides News Agency) – "After an 8-day ordeal, our 20 colleagues are back with us and their families" said a statement by FECAMDS (Federation of Catholic Medical and Dental Students) which announced the release of ...
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  26 August 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Nigeria is sitting on a time bomb" says the President of the Episcopal Conference Abuja (Fides News Agency) – "Nigeria is sitting on a time bomb". This was the alarm raised by Lucius Ugorji, Archbishop of Owerri, President of the Catholic Bishop Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), in his opening address t ...
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  26 August 2024
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - "Gratitude and sacrifice". 30,000 people in Antsiranana for the third National Eucharistic Congress by Father Angelo Michel Helpa Randrianarisoa Antsiranana (Fides News Agency) – In these days, the Diocese of Antsiranana hosted the third National Eucharistic Congress of Madagascar, held in the city in the north o ...
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  23 August 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - North Kivu: truce breached, but negotiations continue with Angolan mediation Kinshasa (Fides News Agency) - Violations have been reported in the ceasefire in North Kivu (in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo), which took effect on August 4 (see Fides 8/8/2024). The agreement negotia ...
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  22 August 2024
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Uphill road for peace talks in Geneva; three humanitarian corridors reopened Khartoum (Fides News Agency) – The reopening of three crossing points for humanitarian aid is so far the only (albeit important) result of the peace talks for Sudan currently underway in Geneva. Representatives of th ...
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  21 August 2024
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Kidnappings for ransom on the rise Addis Ababa (Fides News Agency) – Kidnappings for ransom are on the rise in several regions of Ethiopia. These are carried out by criminal gangs as well as guerrilla movements that use ransom money to finance themselve ...
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  20 August 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Concern for the fate of the 20 medical students abducted on August 15 Abuja (Fides News Agency) - Still no news of the 20 medical students abducted on August 15th in Benue State, in east-central Nigeria. The students were en route to the annual national congress held by the Federation of C ...
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  19 August 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "The crisis in North Kivu is not just neglected but tolerated" says the UN Humanitarian Coordinator to the DRC Kinshasa (Fides News Agency) - "6 humanitarian operators were killed and 11 kidnapped between January and June of this year, with upwards of 200 incidents which directly targeted humanitarian operators on the field", sai ...
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  19 August 2024
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The governor of Unity State bans forced marriages Juba (Fides News Agency) - Enough with forced marriages for women and girls. This is what Riek Biem, governor of Unity State in South Sudan, has established. "I am the governor of this State and I declare today: let us s ...
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  18 August 2024
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO - Sixty years after martyrdom, the missionaries of Uvira proclaimed Blessed Uvira (Fides News Agency) – Blessed are the Xaverian missionaries killed out of an odium fidei during the Mulelist uprising against the Congolese Government. Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, Archbishop of Kinshasa, r ...
• 15 August 2024
  AFRICA/KENYA - Appointment of Military Ordinary for Kenya Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father has appointed H.E. Msgr. Wallace Ng'ang'a Gachihi - titular Bishop of Thucca di Mauritania and Auxiliary of Nairobi - as Ordinary of the Military Ordinariate of Kenya. ...