The most important period of the year for Orthodox Christians…
01 Mar 2021, Churches March 2021
A museum project has been launched this year under the…
01 Mar 2021, Culture March 2021
In a spectacular turnaround, the former President Kabila who was…
01 Mar 2021, News March 2021
Maritime piracy in the Gulf of Guinea is a threat…
01 Mar 2021, News March 2021
An unstable region. “Young people abandoned to themselves find a…
01 Mar 2021, Churches March 2021
The glowing coals give off a wonderful aroma: the smell…
01 Mar 2021, News March 2021
In his last Encyclical, “Fratelli Tutti”, (“Brothers All”),…
01 Mar 2021, Culture March 2021
A Sunday with Father Anthony Assebiah, Parish Priest of Beyin…
01 Mar 2021, Churches March 2021
The pandemic forced it to close just a week after…
01 Mar 2021, Culture March 2021
The difficult journey of the Ethiopians of Jewish origin towards…
01 Mar 2021, News March 2021
“If I am because we are, then true fraternity leaves…
01 Feb 2021, Churches February 2021
In recent years, Tel Aviv has expanded and increased diplomatic…
01 Feb 2021, News February 2021
The Gospel track devised by South Africa DJ Master KG…
01 Feb 2021, Culture February 2021
Cous cous, a popular emblematic dish of North Africa, has…
01 Feb 2021, Culture February 2021
The Democratic Republic of Congo continues to be afflicted by…
01 Feb 2021, Churches February 2021
The importance of medicinal plants in primary health care systems…
01 Feb 2021, Culture February 2021
Like other continents, Africa is experimenting a spectacular spread of…
01 Feb 2021, News February 2021
The discovery by Egyptian archaeologists of more than a hundred…
01 Feb 2021, Culture February 2021
The country is passing through a phase of instability, and…
01 Feb 2021, News February 2021
A fierce opponent of the regime of Paul Biya, he…
01 Feb 2021, Churches February 2021
This year many African countries will go through a phase…
01 Jan 2021, News January 2021
Ten years after the popular uprisings in North Africa, what…
01 Jan 2021, News January 2021
“As missionaries, we try to share as much as possible…
01 Jan 2021, Churches January 2021
Lake Victoria, Africa’s largest freshwater surface and a touristic marvel…
01 Jan 2021, News January 2021
Clouds appear on the horizon in Sahel and forthcoming elections…
01 Jan 2021, Dossier January 2021
Medicinal plants continue to play vital roles in primary health…
01 Jan 2021, Culture January 2021
The Guji are an ethnic group of southern Ethiopia. They…
01 Jan 2021, Culture January 2021
It is not easy to juggle the various interests that…
01 Dec 2020, Dossier December 2020
The new encyclical of Pope Francis, Fratelli Tutti (Brothers All)…
01 Dec 2020, Churches December 2020
Welcome to the Murchison Falls National Park named after its…
01 Dec 2020, News December 2020
The Great Green Wall’s goal is clear: to regenerate 100…
01 Dec 2020, Dossier December 2020
From a green wall of trees to a mosaic of…
01 Dec 2020, Dossier December 2020
A great opportunity to rediscover the reasons for a presence.…
01 Dec 2020, Churches December 2020
A junior Canadian company will start drilling oil in the…
01 Dec 2020, News December 2020
Piliostigma thonningii, common name 'camel’s foot', is a leguminous, deciduous…
01 Dec 2020, Culture December 2020
Especially present socially with its work among street children, immigrants…
01 Dec 2020, Churches December 2020
Aimed at Africans and the diaspora, the Pan-African Museum of…
01 Dec 2020, Culture December 2020
Any ecological rehabilitation of a territory must consider several factors,…
01 Dec 2020, Dossier December 2020
In the African context, Ubuntu is a religious belief which…
01 Dec 2020, Culture December 2020
Large-scale cultivations are now a reality in a growing number…
01 Dec 2020, News December 2020
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
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
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
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
“This is no longer the time for clashes between believers.…
01 Jun 2020, Churches 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
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 May are unlikely to put an end to the political crisis which is ongoing since 2015. On the contrary. By early March, twelve candidates had announced…
The suburb of Mukuru is home to about 600,000 people. This area, which is experiencing severe urban decay, grows around the financial centre of Nairobi, the Kenyan capital. Right there in the suburb, the Sisters…
The strong demographic growth is a main driver of the decimation of the African wildlife. The African population is projected to grow from 935 million to 2,1 billion people between 2013 and 2050. This growth is…
The arms trade criss-crosses the Sahel region. To the north highly organised networks of traffickers operate. On the opposite bank the local intermediaries come into play. The Niger River is over four thousand kilometres long.…
On 22 November 2020, the Italian Comboni priest Father Giuseppe Ambrosoli will be beatified in Kalongo in the north of Uganda. A story of dedication to the poor as a doctor and missionary. It was the…
It is illegal in just seven countries. In the continent it is an industry with large profit margins. A market in rapid development due to the internet, smartphones and online payment systems. Is it harmless? A…
After targeting the President’s son, the Angolan justice, it has frozen the assets of his daughter, the richest woman of the continent and everyone now wonders whether the former head of state is next on the list.…
It is used to treat backache and brittle bones. The decoction from the leaves is used to deal with depression. Medicinal plants play an integral role in traditional medicines across the world and have…
A country where injustice and impunity reign. A government that threatens the Church. Youth in search of a better future. An interview with Mons. Miguel Sebastian, Bishop of Sahr in the south-west of the country. “We have…
Hundreds of street children roam the centre of Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, living in subhuman conditions. Many of them are second generation victims: their poverty is a consequence of their orphanhood. Their parents died…
In ancient times, the word ecumene denoted the whole known world and defined that portion of the earth that was inhabited, in contrast with the lands as yet unknown. Later, the concept of ecumenism attained…
Existing and looming conflicts, “third-termism” and rigged elections are the main challenges. The Jihadist threat, the leaders’ will to stay in power beyond constitutional terms, possibly rigged elections and looming conflicts in the Great Lakes Region…
This year there will be several security hotspots around the continent. We focus on six African countries three in the centre (Cameroon, the Central African Republic, DR. Congo) and three in the West (Nigeria, Burkina…
Mogadishu and the Federal States are on a collision course regarding different issues, especially the management of the elections to be held next year, the first since 1969. The bordering countries such as Kenya and…
A Catholic nurse dedicates her life to Meeting Point International, an association that takes care of more than two thousand orphans and HIV positive women. Kireka is one of the slums of Kampala, the Ugandan capital.…
Fishing rights sold off by governments to foreign companies. Illegal fishing and how it damages the environment. Drug trafficking. Factors that impoverish and render insecure the waters of many African countries. The continent has 38 coastal…
Environmental degradation will make the planet face up to challenges unknown until now. As a consequence of the deterioration of the environment, Africa is experiencing the phenomenon of climate-driven migration. Africa is currently home to more…
The region has acquired a key role in the drugs trade, becoming the major platform of intercontinental trade in cocaine, not only because of its strategic location but also because it is fertile ground for…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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 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…
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…
In the Autumn of 2011, the Occupy movement was growing like a weed – quickly and strongly. In groups as small as two and as…
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Long, long ago, Giraffe did not have the long, elegant neck that he has now. In those days his neck was short and squat, resembling Rhinoceros's…
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A wave of self-organised youth-led groups across the world has joined the growing momentum behind the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit, which will peak in September. The…
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