Just over a century after he died as a martyr,…
01 Jul 2021, Churches July 2021
With a new Apostolic Letter Antiquum Ministerium (Ancient Ministry), Pope…
01 Jul 2021, Churches July 2021
Among the waci (a name that means 'the souls of…
01 Jul 2021, Culture July 2021
As the security continues to deteriorate in Eastern Congo, President…
01 Jul 2021, News July 2021
The 24 May coup against an attempt to reduce the…
01 Jul 2021, News July 2021
A country broken by years of civil war. The difficult…
01 Jul 2021, Churches July 2021
Hundreds of species of bird migrate seasonally, covering enormous distances,…
01 Jul 2021, Culture July 2021
For the Karimojong, a pastoral and semi-nomadic tribe living in…
01 Jul 2021, Culture July 2021
A single ship lodged in the Suez Canal halted maritime…
01 Jul 2021, News July 2021
President Déby’s sudden death has left a huge vacuum. The…
01 Jun 2021, News June 2021
In the north of the country, at Tamale, there are…
01 Jun 2021, News June 2021
The Gedeo are an ethnic group in southern Ethiopia. Among…
01 Jun 2021, Culture June 2021
With the initiative of Christopher Kirkley, an American bio-engineer who…
01 Jun 2021, Culture June 2021
The films made by young directors can be traced to…
01 Jun 2021, Culture June 2021
The nature parks of W-Arly-Pendjari, straddling the borders of Niger,…
01 Jun 2021, News June 2021
A total of one hundred and thirty years those three…
01 Jun 2021, Churches June 2021
To recreate the social and interreligious fabric of a society…
01 Jun 2021, Churches June 2021
Forty years have passed since the Movement of Democratic Forces…
01 Jun 2021, News June 2021
Known as African olive or bush candle, this tropical tree…
01 May 2021, Culture May 2021
Kidnappings, rapes and murders are part of daily life for…
01 May 2021, Churches May 2021
Agbogbloshie, in Accra, the capital of Ghana, is one of…
01 May 2021, News May 2021
The Daniel Comboni House of the Comboni Missionary Sisters is…
01 May 2021, Churches May 2021
Respected by public opinion and the international community, Ramaphosa has…
01 May 2021, News May 2021
On a hill in the city of Bukavu in the…
01 May 2021, Churches May 2021
The weakness of Somalia’s state has incited neighbours to make…
01 May 2021, News May 2021
Former President Laurent Gbagbo has received the green light to…
01 May 2021, News May 2021
She wants to make history: to be the first Kenyan…
01 May 2021, Culture May 2021
Besides their family names, the Batooro have pet names called…
01 Apr 2021, Culture April 2021
The Tigray conflict has dampened the enthusiasm raised by the…
01 Apr 2021, News April 2021
There have been close to twelve peace agreements but they…
01 Apr 2021, Churches April 2021
An interwoven series of criminal gangs, terrorist groups, traffickers of…
01 Apr 2021, News April 2021
John Campbell, a Senior fellow for Africa Policy Studies at…
01 Apr 2021, News April 2021
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 and the whole area. Before the end of 2023 it is planned to widen the canal which will allow an increase in daily ship traffic,…
On the edge of the on the border between Niger and Burkina Faso, the Fatebenefratelli friars have been providing medical services to the people of Atakora plateau. Brother Fiorenzo Priuli, director of the St. Jean…
The Dream Catchers Academy is an organisation that helps street children. To give them some dignity and a future. Lagos is the biggest city in the whole of the African continent and one of the most…
The Tanzanian-born priest, Fr. Charles Nyamiti, will be remember as eminent pioneer of African Theology “brewed in an African pot.” In the strict sense of the concept, “African Theology” as a theological genre within the Christian…
Almost all the African constitutions declare their adhesion to Pan Africanism in their preambles and many governments include a ministry of regional integration, and so underline the primacy of a project of African unity. The result…
After decades of distrust and hostility, the Somali brothers from Mogadishu, from the break-away state of Somaliland and from the federal states of Somalia are talking to each other. Regional and international partners are trying…
Vital in traditional medicine for the treatment and management of various disease conditions. The ash is used for oxytocic action, and externally, the ash is applied for the treatment of scabies. The Yje plant possesses potent…
Sixty years ago, seventeen African countries became independent. Enough time has gone by to take stock of the situation of the continent and, especially, to plan for the future. In 1961, when African independence was beginning,…
In Chad, a missionary who has lived in the country for over 53 years creates a Cereal Bank. A strategy which has proved successful. Today, 346 banks have formed a federation with as many as…
The Buganda are a bantu speaking ethnic group found in Uganda. They are a very dominant group and account for 17% of the country’s population of 34.6 million people. The present day Buganda was known…
Birth in Buganda is very important because it is the yard stick that measures a successful marriage, no childless marriage is considered successful. A man would be asked to get another wife if his wife…
Cities built from nothing in the desert, vast infrastructure created, gold mines opened, arms and steel production, the commercialisation of consumer goods from such various materials as foodstuffs, domestic appliances and medicine. The huge empire…
The Jihadist movement continues its action attacking villages, destroying and burning houses, schools and places of worship. Cabo Delgado, a region rich in minerals and oil, is at the centre of their terrorist activities. In recent…
The economic crisis amplified by the coronavirus pandemics, ongoing unrest in the provinces and divisions in the ranks of the government are threatening the transition to democracy. More than a year after the Khartoum spring of…
Comboni Missionaries have been living with the Nuer people for almost twenty five years. They have been entrusted with the pastoral care of Saint Joseph the Worker's Parish in Leer, which is under the Diocese…
St. Mary’s Hospital is located in the Arab market district of Khartoum. More than 300 children are born in this structure every month. We visited the Centre. Six Comboni missionaries of five different nationalities work there…
It is used to treat different allergies and help various antioxidant-associated health benefits. Globally, a number of plants are used as tea with lots of nutritional and health benefits. One of such plants is Aspalathus…
A church that wants to be a ‘bridge’ between the Christian and Islamic worlds. Deeply involved in the field of immigration. Cardinal Cristobal Lopez, Archbishop of Rabat speaks to us. He had only been a…
The Ecclesial Network for the Congo River Basin (REBAC, from its acronym in French) aims to be a response to the pastoral and socio-environmental challenges faced by the populations of this region in the heart…
“This is no longer the time for clashes between believers. Following the example of our martyrs, we are apostles of dialogue and peace in an Islamic land”. A conversation with the Archbishop of Algiers, Mons. Paul…
It is difficult to be a Church in a place of violence and instability. “We are few but not invisible”. We speak with Mons. George Bugeja, Bishop of Tripoli. Libya is a country that lives between chaos…
The covid 19 pandemics has caused a recession in Africa which makes the repayment of external debt instalments unstainable and may jeopardises the fight against poverty reduction. The G 20 countries have decided to freeze…
Grand Zimbabwe is one of Africa's largest and most complex archaeological sites. Its origins and decline are mysterious, and we visited it. The origins of Grand Zimbabwe - Dzimba-Dzemabwe in the Shona language: The Stone City -…
The DRC which has faced frequently problems at its borders with several of its neighbours has clashed recently with Zambia. Both capitals have eventually managed to control the escalation. But these tensions come on top…
Over the last ten years, African military spending grew by 17%, rising to $41.2 billion in 2019, according to new research from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), which reports that last year the…
One year after the General Election, the country still remains in a political crisis. The combination of a health crisis (Coronavirus) and a political dispute could be extremely dangerous for the country. The Malawi’s five High…
The Coronavirus pandemic is spreading across Africa. The virus has gradually attacked almost all its countries. To date, thousands of victims have been claimed by this emergency which may move from being a matter of health…
The plant is often harvested from the wild for local use, especially for medicinal purposes but also as a food and source of soap. The use of wild medicinal plants in traditional medicine is still a…
The national elections that were scheduled for August have been postponed sine die because of the coronavirus outbreak. Some analysts fear that such decision could exacerbate the tense political situation in Ethiopia. On the last…
The root in the form of a powder, a decoction, or an infusion, is taken to treat a wide range of diseases including venereal diseases, fevers and malaria among the others. The leaves are used…
The legacy of the time of the Pharaohs of the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty is being ransomed after the silence caused by intentionally misrepresented history. Now, researchers and institutions are recovering the splendor of the Nubian civilization. The…
Africa which is already hit by several epidemics is now facing the challenge of the health and economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemics. So far, 43 countries and territories have been affected. Since the first cases…
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…
Advocacy is concerned with values, awareness and knowledge of problems to promote actions, policies and changes in the issues that interest people. Advocacy does not always…
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There was once a herd of elephants who went to gather honey to take to their in-laws. As they were walking along, they came upon Hare…
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Despite challenges of unemployment, corruption, entrenched political leadership, and political violence, many African youth have found constructive avenues to promote peace, effective governance and reform. Africa remains the…
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