Africa

• 4 October 2025
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Tensions due to demonstrations organized by the opposition ahead of the presidential elections on October 25 Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) – Demonstrations are planned for today, Saturday, October 4, in all cities in Ivory Coast. These demonstrations are organized by the "Fronte Comune," the alliance of the two main opposition part ...
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  3 October 2025
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Protests continue despite government resignation Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) – Anti-government protests in Madagascar continue. Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets yesterday (October 2) in various cities to demand the resignation of President Andry Rajoel ...
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  3 October 2025
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Food, drinking water, medical care, and psychosocial support for a group of 220 juvenile prisoners Freetown (Agenzia Fides) – Supporting the most vulnerable juvenile prisoners on their path to social rehabilitation and reducing the risk of recidivism after serving their sentences – this is the goal of the non-gove ...
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  2 October 2025
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Violent clashes in Nagero County: injured, displaced, and missing. Homes, health centers, schools, and various infrastructures destroyed Tombura-Yambio (Agenzia Fides) – "To all those engaged in fighting, I raise my voice as a shepherd: Cease hostilities! Respect human life! Protect civilians!" said the Bishop of Tombura-Yambio, Barani Eduardo Hiiboro K ...
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  1 October 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Appeal from South Kivu civil society: "Territorial integrity must be respected and the local population must be included in the peace talks" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The populations in war-torn areas must not be ignored by not being invited to negotiations to resolve the conflicts that affect them. This is what a group of personalities and traditional lea ...
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  29 September 2025
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - The country is in revolt: protesters denounce the government and demand the restoration of electricity and water supplies Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) – Looting and destruction in the capital, fires, school closures, and curfews – this is the scenario that has shaken one of the world's poorest countries, where over 75% of the population ...
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  28 September 2025
  AFRICA/GHANA - Proliferation of illegally held firearms raises concern Accra (Agenzia Fides) – Ghana has seen a sharp increase in incidents involving illegally held firearms this year. According to the Firearms Incident Report prepared by the National Commission on Small Arms and Light We ...
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  24 September 2025
  AFRICA/BENIN - Bishop of N'Dali celebrates Mass in the village of Kalalé which was attacked by Nigerian jihadists on September 10 Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - "The hostages are still in the hands of the jihadists," says Bishop Martin Adjou Moumouni of N'Dali, the diocese in Benin whose territory includes the village of Kalalé, which was attacked on S ...
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  23 September 2025
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Christian denominations call for the cancellation of the country's debt in order to reduce social inequalities Harare (Agenzia Fides) - Zimbabwe's main Christian denominations describe their country's situation as a situation of "negative peace" in the declaration "Act Now for a Pacific World," issued on the occasion of World Pea ...
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  22 September 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Catholic priest killed in a road ambush in southeastern Nigeria Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – Catholic priest Matthew Eya was killed violently in a road ambush in Nigeria. He was shot dead on the evening of September 19 on the Eha-Alumonah-Eha-Ndiagu road in Nsukka County, Enugu State, s ...
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  20 September 2025
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Fear and terror among the population, victims of ongoing violence Mocimboa da Praia (Agenzia Fides) – The violent insurgency in the province of Cabo Delgado (see Fides, 26/8/2025) continues to fuel further outbreaks of guerrilla warfare and chaos. According to local media reports, f ...
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  19 September 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Are the Hutu in Congo the Palestinians of Central Africa? Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – "Following the advance of the M23/AFC, around one and a half million displaced people camped around Goma, relying solely on the help of people of goodwill. This is what hundreds of inhabitant ...
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  19 September 2025
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Twelve million displaced: One of the worst humanitarian crises of the 21st century Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – Direct attacks on civilians, mass displacement, sexual assaults, deterioration of health care, and the collapse of basic services continue to characterize a Sudan rocked by serious human righ ...
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  18 September 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Catholic priest attacked during robbery at a training school Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – A priest in Ituri, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has once again been attacked. On the night of September 15-16, several gang members armed with hammers, knives, crowbars, a ...
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  16 September 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Catholic priest kidnapped: Father Wilfred Ezemba Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – Another Catholic priest has been kidnapped in Nigeria. According to information sent to Fides, Wilfred Ezemba, parish priest of St. Paul's Parish in Agaliga-Efabo, in the Olamaboro Local Governm ...