Africa

• 5 September 2024
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Appointment of bishop of Kaga-Bandoro Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Victor Hugo Castillo Matarrita, M.C.C.J., until now provincial of the Comboni Missionaries in Central Africa, as bishop of Kaga-Bandoro, Central A ...
• 5 September 2024
  AFRICA/GAMBIA - The presence of missionary pioneers: "The charism of Don Bosco in a new context" Kunkujang (Agenzia Fides) – The parish of Kunkujang, run by the Salesians, includes 25 villages and 13 Catholic communities. Having arrived in the country just six years ago, in October 2018, at the invitation of t ...
• 4 September 2024
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Religious tolerance characterizes peaceful Islamic-Christian relations Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - The diversity of different peoples and cultures, which has led to a mixture of ethnic groups and families, has characterized the history of Senegal from the beginning. The Country is today an ...
• 4 September 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Rebellion or attempted escape: at least 129 dead in the overcrowded prison in Makala Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Makala central prison in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has been described as a "time bomb", where at least 129 prisoners were killed during an escape attempt ...
• 3 September 2024
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - JNIM jihadists attack local self-defense groups Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - Jihadist groups continue to spread fear and terror in Burkina Faso. After the massacre in the village of Barsalogho on August 24, in which at least 200 people died, on August 30 an attack on ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...