Today, there are 40,000 inhabitants in Tivaouane, 100 km north-east…
01 Nov 2020, Dossier November 2020
A project that tries to return street children to their…
01 Nov 2020, Churches November 2020
On the Madagascar plateau the bodies of the dead are…
01 Nov 2020, Culture November 2020
More than 90% of the population of Senegal, an officially…
01 Nov 2020, Dossier November 2020
On one of the Atlantic beaches of Yoff, rises the…
01 Nov 2020, Dossier November 2020
The country is at the crossroads. Presidential and parliament elections…
01 Nov 2020, News November 2020
In September, separatist attacks took place in the Volta Region…
01 Nov 2020, News November 2020
Touba, the holy city of the Muridiyya Brotherhood, situated in…
01 Nov 2020, Dossier November 2020
Small Christina communities. Inculturation. Lay movements and a growing number…
01 Nov 2020, Churches November 2020
The country is in turmoil. Jihadist violence risks tearing it…
01 Oct 2020, News October 2020
Since the start of the evangelisation of Sudan, education has…
01 Oct 2020, Churches October 2020
The continent has the highest percentage in the world of…
01 Oct 2020, News October 2020
One of the most beautiful cities in North Africa is…
01 Oct 2020, Culture October 2020
Plants have been a source of effective therapeutic agents for…
01 Oct 2020, Culture October 2020
A soccer championship is useful in order to keep hundreds…
01 Oct 2020, News October 2020
After the crisis that followed the presidential election of 2010,…
01 Sep 2020, News September 2020
Wearing a mask is essential when faced with a virus…
01 Sep 2020, Culture September 2020
The Comboni Innovation and Entrepreneurship Centre (CIEC) is an incubator…
01 Sep 2020, Churches September 2020
On 18th August 2020, a group of military officers took…
01 Sep 2020, News September 2020
The Suez Canal has always been strategically important for Egypt…
01 Sep 2020, News September 2020
On the edge of the on the border between Niger…
01 Sep 2020, Churches September 2020
The Dream Catchers Academy is an organisation that helps street…
01 Aug 2020, Culture August 2020
The Tanzanian-born priest, Fr. Charles Nyamiti, will be remember as…
01 Aug 2020, Churches August 2020
Almost all the African constitutions declare their adhesion to Pan…
01 Aug 2020, News August 2020
After decades of distrust and hostility, the Somali brothers from…
01 Aug 2020, News August 2020
Vital in traditional medicine for the treatment and management of…
01 Aug 2020, Culture August 2020
Sixty years ago, seventeen African countries became independent. Enough time…
01 Aug 2020, News August 2020
Death is a sad and dark time among the Baganda.…
01 Aug 2020, Dossier August 2020
In Chad, a missionary who has lived in the country…
01 Aug 2020, Churches August 2020
The Buganda are a bantu speaking ethnic group found in…
01 Aug 2020, Dossier August 2020
Birth in Buganda is very important because it is the…
01 Aug 2020, Dossier August 2020
Marriage in Buganda was one of the most important activities…
01 Aug 2020, Dossier August 2020
Increasingly established designers, ever more inspired collections, ever more lavish…
01 Jul 2020, Culture July 2020
Cities built from nothing in the desert, vast infrastructure created,…
01 Jul 2020, News July 2020
The Jihadist movement continues its action attacking villages, destroying and…
01 Jul 2020, News July 2020
The economic crisis amplified by the coronavirus pandemics, ongoing unrest…
01 Jul 2020, News July 2020
Comboni Missionaries have been living with the Nuer people for…
01 Jul 2020, Churches July 2020
St. Mary’s Hospital is located in the Arab market district…
01 Jul 2020, Churches July 2020
It is used to treat different allergies and help various…
01 Jul 2020, Culture July 2020
A church that wants to be a ‘bridge’ between the…
01 Jun 2020, Churches June 2020
The Ecclesial Network for the Congo River Basin (REBAC, from…
01 Jun 2020, Churches June 2020
Sangomas, the South African traditional healers, mainly work in the…
01 Jun 2020, Culture June 2020
“This is no longer the time for clashes between believers.…
01 Jun 2020, Churches June 2020
African women have made the right “to participate in political…
01 Jun 2020, News June 2020
It is difficult to be a Church in a place…
01 Jun 2020, Churches June 2020
The covid 19 pandemics has caused a recession in Africa…
01 Jun 2020, News June 2020
Grand Zimbabwe is one of Africa's largest and most complex…
01 May 2020, Culture May 2020
A meeting to seek concrete solutions to problems and, most…
01 May 2020, Churches May 2020
The DRC which has faced frequently problems at its borders…
01 May 2020, News May 2020
Over the last ten years, African military spending grew by…
01 May 2020, News May 2020
One year after the General Election, the country still remains…
01 May 2020, News May 2020
The Coronavirus pandemic is spreading across Africa. The virus has…
01 May 2020, Churches May 2020
The plant is often harvested from the wild for local…
01 May 2020, Culture May 2020
The national elections that were scheduled for August have been…
01 May 2020, News May 2020
The root in the form of a powder, a decoction,…
01 Apr 2020, Culture April 2020
The legacy of the time of the Pharaohs of the…
01 Apr 2020, Culture April 2020
Africa which is already hit by several epidemics is now…
01 Apr 2020, News April 2020
The presidential and parliament elections scheduled for the next 20…
01 Apr 2020, News April 2020
The suburb of Mukuru is home to about 600,000 people.…
01 Apr 2020, Churches April 2020
The strong demographic growth is a main driver of the…
01 Apr 2020, Dossier April 2020
The combination of increasing poaching uncontrolled demographic growth leading to…
01 Apr 2020, Dossier April 2020
The most direct cause for the decrease of wildlife population…
01 Apr 2020, Dossier April 2020
Another indirect threat is the boom of extractive industries. In…
01 Apr 2020, Dossier April 2020
The arms trade criss-crosses the Sahel region. To the north…
01 Mar 2020, News March 2020
On 22 November 2020, the Italian Comboni priest Father Giuseppe…
01 Mar 2020, Churches March 2020
It is illegal in just seven countries. In the continent…
01 Mar 2020, News March 2020
After targeting the President’s son, the Angolan justice, it has…
01 Mar 2020, News March 2020
It is used to treat backache and brittle bones.…
01 Mar 2020, Culture March 2020
With the Ankole people in the Western part of Uganda,…
01 Mar 2020, Culture March 2020
A country where injustice and impunity reign. A government that…
01 Mar 2020, Churches March 2020
The country has become the main concern of the commanders…
01 Feb 2020, News February 2020
In the Karimojong group living in north-east Uganda, the number…
01 Feb 2020, Culture February 2020
Hundreds of street children roam the centre of Harare, the…
01 Feb 2020, News February 2020
General elections are scheduled at the end of 2020. The…
01 Feb 2020, News February 2020
Owing to a lack of evolution of agricultural techniques, slash-and-burn…
01 Jan 2020, Dossier January 2020
The Pan-Bila — which in the Mossi language means 'Small…
01 Jan 2020, Churches January 2020
Logging is another major threat. It provokes soil erosion, water…
01 Jan 2020, Dossier January 2020
In ancient times, the word ecumene denoted the whole known…
01 Jan 2020, Churches January 2020
According to recent NASA satellite information there are five times…
01 Jan 2020, Dossier January 2020
Central African forests are also vulnerable to the effects of…
01 Jan 2020, Dossier January 2020
Existing and looming conflicts, “third-termism” and rigged elections are the…
01 Jan 2020, News January 2020
The Gabbra are a nomadic people who live in the…
01 Jan 2020, Culture January 2020
This year there will be several security hotspots around the…
01 Jan 2020, News January 2020
Mogadishu and the Federal States are on a collision course…
01 Dec 2019, News December 2019
The continent of Africa is becoming one of the major…
01 Dec 2019, Dossier December 2019
A Catholic nurse dedicates her life to Meeting Point International,…
01 Dec 2019, Churches December 2019
Fishing rights sold off by governments to foreign companies. Illegal…
01 Dec 2019, News December 2019
Environmental degradation will make the planet face up to challenges…
01 Dec 2019, News December 2019
The North African area, with its vast desert regions that…
01 Dec 2019, Dossier December 2019
The region has acquired a key role in the drugs…
01 Dec 2019, Dossier December 2019
The Banyankole are a Ugandan tribe found in South-western Uganda. They are popularly known for their long horned cattle or what many people prefer to call ankole cattle. The Banyankole are divided into two social…
A large part of the drugs coming from Latin America and Asia is controlled and managed by gangs of Nigerians (such as the Area boys known as Agberos, other gangs of young boys called Bakassi…
Ever since it won the first democratic elections, held in November 1989 and supervised by the UN, by a comfortable 57%, the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO, now called the 'SWAPO Party of Namibia')…
The structure of the economy of Namibia reflects the contradictions that are typical of all southern Africa. On the one hand, the country may boast of one of the highest per capita incomes in the continent…
A Camillian and also professor at the University of Ouagadougou, Father Jacques Simporè assists the sick and most neglected. He has always worked with tenacity against the spread of HIV decimating the country. Fr. Jacques Simporè’s…
The 2,720 kilometre wall, which separates the areas occupied by Morocco and those liberated by the Polisario Front in Western Sahara, is actually the largest active military barrier in the world, and the second longest…
The Bari, a South Sudan ethnic group who live on the Savannah along the White Nile, believe that death is not a curse but a 'going to rest' . Among the Bari, death is seen…
He has transformed sterile land into a forest by digging trenches in the hardened earth that hold water and other nutrients, allowing the growing crops to resist drought. This is an ancient unconventional technique known…
Originally from the Argentine, Mons. José Luis Gerardo Ponce de León has for five years been Bishop of Manzini in the Kingdom of Eswatini, the former Swaziland. He shares his experience with us. Before becoming…
With only 2.6 million inhabitants and an area of 824,292 square kilometres, Namibia presents a particularly complicated ethnic and cultural geography. Low population density and the absence of large urban centres of development (Windhoek, the…
She lives and works in the Democratic Republic of Congo and has dedicated all her life to her mission to welcome and care for the worst cases, those who need her as an experienced surgeon…
The SWAPO movement succeeded in bringing on board the different ethnic groups, even co-opting some of the tribal leaders. In Namibia too, as in the rest of Africa, ethnic diversity is a difficult problem to manage.…
In the Chadian region bordering with Libya, an area rich in gold, we find a crossroads of illegal trading, ethnic disputes and military positioning. The Tibesti region is a triangle of mountains and desert in the north…
Xenophobic attacks against immigrants are causing a lot of damage to South Africa’s image across the continent. Local politicians are partly to blame for their populists rethorics. On the 2 and 3 September, 12 people were…
This year, the Institute of Social Ministry in Mission, at Tangaza College in Nairobi, celebrate 25 years since its foundation. The story of the Institute of Social Ministry in Mission (ISMM) begins with one great visionary,…
The slums of Katwe have seen the birth of a new circus where the jugglers, acrobats, fire-eaters and dancers are the youngsters themselves of the shanty town. They have become so skilled that they have…
Jihadist groups are expanding in Africa beyond the Sahel, from the Horn to Central and Southern Africa. The Congolese President, Felix Tshisekedi, is calling for “a regional coalition against terrorism”. On 19 August 2019, the…
Abyi Ahmed Ali’s election in April 2018 raised considerable hopes in Ethiopia which he engaged steadfastly on the path of reforms. But as the first free elections are looming in 2020, many challenges need to be…
He could have left, and lived a better and more comfortable life. Instead he preferred to stay and put himself at the service of the weakest. Peter Sunduk is no longer a young man, but he has…
Indigenous to North Africa, the Amazigh people, sometimes known as Berbers, have spent decades fighting for cultural recognition in the predominantly Arab region. For years, Amazigh activists have been engaged in a battle against oppressive policies…
What kind of challenges exist for Christians in Islamic countries? How to be a Christian among Muslims? We focus on Egypt. An Islamic country is, by definition, religious. However, Islamic countries differ in their way…
The MAET is the movement of singers and musicians who support the change in Togo. These artists often suffer retaliation. MAET is one of the voices of the opposition to President Faure Gnassingbé, ahead of…
Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was imprisoned and exiled for his political beliefs. As he became sensitized to the effects of colonialism in Africa, Ngũgĩ turned from writing in English to writing in his native…
There is no feast in Ethiopia, religious or civil, so popular and with such large social and family roots. What is celebrated on the day of Meskel? The New Year begins in Ethiopia on September 12. That…
Private Military Companies (PMC) have become an important player in geopolitics. These companies provide military contractors to states and private citizens and companies to train personnel or to protect workers and assets. And they became…
For some time, the Catholic and Protestant communities have been a target for Islamic groups attempting to destabilise the country. They are also trying to weaken its inter-ethnic and inter-religious ties. It was an ordinary Sunday…
Ongoing insecurity and bad governance contribute to the expansion of the second largest Ebola epidemics in the DRC and beyond. The World Heath Organisation has declared the deadly Ebola a global health emergency. With over 2,700 cases…
Fifty-seven years after their tragic deaths, the Roman Catholic Church of Congo has started the process of beatification of the twenty missionaries assassinated by government soldiers on the 1 January 1962. Last June, the bishop of Kongolo diocesis,…
The continent is changing thanks to the increasingly frequent use of new technological tools. A journey through the most innovative start-ups in Africa. Innovation is today the most used word by those who want to talk about…
In Buganda, an ethnic group lives in the Central Region of Uganda; twins are imagined to be special of children; many 'baganda' believe that twins are semi gods while others say that they are spirits…
Lake Malawi, a unique habitat. One of the deepest water deposits in the world. Distinctive rock art representing the cultural traditions and the history of the people who inhabit the Malawi plateau. Twenty per cent…
In the northern state of Kano in Nigeria a political war is ongoing. On one side, the Emir of Kano, one of the most respected traditional leaders of the country; on the other, Abdullahi Umar…
The Symposium of the Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) is celebrating its Golden Jubilee. It was established on the eve of Vatican II to promote communion and collaboration between the Regional Episcopal Conferences…
They live today almost the way they could have lived one or two hundred years ago, and this way differs a lot from that of their neighbours. We look at the main traits of their…
Travelling around the Gumuz region we did not see specific place for worship. Of course they have explicit acts of worship, but these are few and not particularly elaborate. They do not require a specific place,…
Changes go very fast. There are many agents responsible for these changes. The first is the government and its laws and programmes of development, which in a society that had been regulating itself by ancestral…
From the Maghreb to Southern Africa, a myriad of flavours, aromas and colours. A journey through past and present tells of the rich traditions in the art of African food. Fonio is an ancient cereal that…
Each day it is criss-crossed by invisible travellers who arrive after placing themselves in the hands of human traffickers, under cover of darkness, crossing the frontier with Sudan along paths lost in the thick undergrowth.…
We have travelled for 500 kms in northwest Addis Ababa. First, it was along the road which joins the capital with Bahr Dar, up to Injibara (or Koso Berr). Then, in Injibara we turned straight…
It is a plant used as a medicine for several therapeutic treatments. The leaf decoction is dropped into the ears to treat earache and infections. The paste made from powdered leaves is applied for skin…
The long-awaited bridge spanning the Gambia River will open in July. The facility, which is set to revolutionise travel and trade in the region, will also improve the relationship between Dakar and Casamance. It took almost…
Pope Francis is going to Madagascar in September. During his stay he will visit the Akamasoa Humanitarian Association. Its Founder, Father Pedro Opeka speaks about it. With the help of a group of young people, Father…
According to the World Bank, 41% of the inhabitants of the continent do not exist in law. They have no identity documents issued by state civil offices. A problem affecting human rights, it fuels illegal…
The unrecognized state of Somaliland is receiving increasingly foreign support partly owed to its stability, its strategic position on the international maritime routes and its oil and fish resources. Diplomacy is a strange game. The…
The problem of immigration. Relations with Islam. Education as a means for spreading the values of peace and tolerance; Caritas helps everyone. We speak with Msgr. Laurent Djalwana Lompo, Archbishop of Niamey. Niger is a transit…
Set to become the main mode of transport in Africa, motorcycle taxis invade roads and streets of cities, towns and villages. They are called by different names, boda boda, okada, and moto, and have come…
The concept of Ubuntu is deeply rooted in Africa and refers to human reality. It means confidence, sharing, collaboration. Mandela summarised it thus: “Are you willing to give something to help the people around you…
Highly valued in traditional medicine for treatment and management of a number of diseases and disorders. Funtumia elastic, commonly named 'silk rubber', is a medium-sized deciduous tree with distribution from Guinea to Cameroon and in the…
Bonga is one of the capitals of Ethiopian coffee. At the corner of every alleyway, one of those tiny coffee shops known as ‘buna bets’ is inevitably found. We start our journey to the deep…
Tension is escalating between Uganda and Rwanda. A crisis is developing that is affecting the entire region. Tension between Uganda and Rwanda, but also at Rwandan borders with Burundi and Congo is rising. By end…
Interregional migration, or the movement of people between geographic sub regions, is also a key feature of migration patterns on the continent. In 2017, Eastern and Western Africa were the regions from which most African migrants…
African bishops are aware that, when there is a massive movement of people, the countries that receive these displaced people may feel threatened. All too often the belief is that newcomers compete for scarce resources…
There are areas of Africa where it is difficult to work as a journalist. A journalist risks being jailed or even killed. Nevertheless, the number of investigating teams reporting on conflicts and revealing corruption and…
Criticisms force governments to place restrictions on the Internet. Serious violations of human rights and grave consequences for local economies. At the same time, systems for by-passing the controls are proliferating. A method of closing down…
Globally, in 2017, there were around 258 million international migrants, approximately 3.4% of the world population. Only 35% was from the south to the north of the world. The same trend was encountered in Africa:…
On his knees before President Salva Kiir and the Vice-Presidents Designate who are to open a new government this month of May: “Peace is possible, let the armistice be respected. The people are worn out…
African migration patterns do not happen in a vacuum. Rather, they are situated within major trends on the global stage that have also affected the continent, namely climate change and environmental degradation and conflict. Environmental changes…
Another so-called Arab – or at least North African – Spring? Given the significant risks and the fact that a few hundred lives have already been lost, rather than spring, geopolitical ‘meteorologists’ might use a…
It possesses great nutritional and medicinal values. The plant is used in the treatment of a number of diseases. And also as a body cream. Xylopia aethiopica which is commonly referred to as the grains…
A poor woman takes a foreign mother into her house and looks after her sick daughter. She goes to the church and asks the missionary to pray that the child gets well. In the eyes of…
If it is true that the Christian Europe of the Middle Ages was shaped by monasticism, more so it can be said of the Ethiopian Christianity. Ethiopia converted to Christianity around the year 330 through the…
From its very foundation, Debre Libanos grew in prestige and power until it surpassed all the other monasteries, thanks in the first place to the personality of its founder, Tekle Haimanot, but also to the…
Twenty-five years after the genocide of the Tutsis in 1994, the country is peaceful and the economy is booming. But citizens are striving for more freedom. September 1994. Two months after the end of the genocide,…
Four years after the crisis sparked by President Pierre Nkurunziza’s determination to run for a third mandate against the spirit of the constitution and the 2000 Arusha Peace Agreement, Burundi has sunk into oblivion, isolation…
In recent years, many faith-based organizations have made bold statements about climate justice being a key component of their faith and stewardship of Earth and…
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A very long time ago before men had learnt how to hunt and set traps, all the birds lived together peacefully in a great forest. Theirs…
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The latest letter of Pope Francis, his Encyclical, Fratelli Tutti “Brothers and Sisters All,” is one that should touch every heart, stimulate our minds, awaken our…
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