EAST AFRICA: EAC Population Hits 142 Million
As world population hit the 7 billion mark this week, East Africa has reached 141.8 million people according to the...
Year: 2011
HORN OF AFRICA – Human Trafficking On the Rise Amid Drought and Famine
Amina Shakir (not her real name) fled the drought and famine in Somalia for a better life in Kenya. But...
SUDAN: Govt Condemns Renewal of U.S. Economic Sanctions
The Sudanese government reacted angrily to the decision by U.S. president Barack Obama to renew the comprehensive economic sanctions that...
NEWS ANALYSIS: Who’s Backing Al Shabaab? – Al Qaeda, Eritrea?
Yet in many ways this was rather predictable - not just because since 2007 al-Shabaab have done little to hide...
US pledges $100 million in East Africa hunger aid
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday pledged another $100 million in food aid to drought-hit East Africa amid...
SOUTH SUDAN: The Government moves to end Arabic schooling
Newly independent South Sudan will change the language of schooling to English this year, shrugging off decades of Arabic imposed...
UN: Security Council to consider new Eritrea sanctions
The Security Council will begin Tuesday discussing a draft resolution on imposing new sanctions on Eritrea for what a UN...
SOUTH SUDAN: A MESSAGE OF THE SUDAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE
PLENARY ASSEMBLY, WAU, 19th – 28th OCTOBER 2011 "THE CHURCH GOD WANTS US TO BE" A MESSAGE OF THE SUDAN...
KENYA: PMS Secretary General calls for the Church in Africa to be Missionary
Secretary General for the Propagation of Faith, Rome Rev. Fr. Timothy Lehane Barret urged the local Catholic Church in Africa...
KENYA: Nuncio appeals for strong Participation of the Faithful in the missionary work
The Apostolic Nuncio to Kenya Most Rev Alain Paul Lebeaupin has called the laity to strongly participate in the missionary...