Africa

• 31 January 2011
  AFRICA/SUDAN - 99% of voters in favour of independence of Southern Sudan while in Khartoum the students are in revolt Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Southern Sudan will become an independent State. The results from the referendum held from 9-15 January were published yesterday, 30 January. The announcement was made from Juba, capital of the ...
• 29 January 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - “The police have disappeared from the centre of Cairo while demonstrators march again”: a missionary to Fides Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - “The police have retreated from the centre of Cairo. The army only protects the buildings of importance such as the Parliament. There is an atmosphere that has never been seen before,” Fides w ...
• 28 January 2011
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - South African Bishops pray for Mandela “Father of the Nation” Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - “On behalf of the Bishops, Clergy, Religious Sisters and Brothers as well as the Catholic Church in Southern Africa, the Catholic Bishops of Southern Africa extend to President Mandela an ...
• 28 January 2011
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Obstacles to evangelisation and human promotion in Africa: FIAC meeting concludes Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - Poverty and social injustice, bad governance, the persistent insecurity, the bad start to democracy in many Countries, the corruption, the urgency of reconciliation and the integral formation of t ...
• 27 January 2011
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - “The Church must make its voice heard in an increasingly materialistic society,” affirms the President of the SACBC Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - The Southern African Bishops lament the fact that the Church's voice is struggling to be heard in the general debate on issues such as sexual morality and the proper utilisation of wealth. ...
• 27 January 2011
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - The inequitable distribution of national wealth helps to provoke ethnic tensions Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - The increase in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) does not automatically translate into improved living conditions for the local people, says a note sent to Fides by the Jesuit Centre for Theological ...
• 26 January 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - “The journey towards democracy requires time. Cultural preparation is also needed,” Father Scattolin tells Fides Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - “The crisis involving all Arab Countries has various motives, among which economics weighs heavily, considering even just the unemployment which above all affects youth,” Fides was told by Fat ...
• 25 January 2011
  AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - Bishops condemn violence and call all to observe pacts Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - “We condemn the violent deaths carried out in the name of the dignity of the human person dear to God. It is also in the name of respect for human life that we oppose the use of force, violenc ...
• 25 January 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Presence of the Shabab in the east of DRC? A missionary calls for caution Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - “The presence of an Islamic group in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is plausible, but up until now we haven't heard any reports of their activities,” Fides was told by F ...
• 24 January 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Presidential elections only one round: the concerns of the Church Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - “The power in Kinshasa want to avoid the syndrome of the desired but unattained victory of Laurent Gbagbo, in the first round of presidential elections in Côte d'Ivoire,” says a note sent ...
• 24 January 2011
  AFRICA/CHAD - A new project to guarantee potable water and limit the outbreak of cholera Bongor (Agenzia Fides) – In mid-December in Chad 6,369 cases of cholera and 180 deaths were recorded: these statistics were released by the United Nations for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. The African Count ...
• 24 January 2011
  AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - Diplomatic and economic pressures increase to force Gbagbo to surrender power Abidjan (Agenzia Fides)- Nigeria intends to ask the UN Security Council for a resolution to authorise the use of force to remove Laurent Gbagbo from power, the outgoing President of Côte d'Ivoire. The Nigerian Foreign M ...
• 22 January 2011
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Finding new motivation and courage to proclaim the Gospel Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) – The National Council of the Pontifical Mission Society (PMS) of Zambia met on 19 and 20 January 2011 at the Charles Lwanga Retreat Centre in Lusaka. “It was a very important meeting, because ...
• 22 January 2011
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - The Malagasy population of Tolagnaro continues to die of thirst Fort Dauphin (Agenzia Fides) – The drought has always the cause of periods of severe famine and epidemics that have plagued the people of Fort Dauphin, or Tolagnaro in the Malagasy language. According to local missiona ...
• 22 January 2011
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Almost all Central Africa to vote to elect the new President Bangui (Agenzia Fides) – Tomorrow, 23 January, 1,800,000 will vote in the presidential and legislative elections of the Central African Republic. “The situation in the capital of Bangui is calm. Our hope is that the ...