Africa

Zimbabwe Health Minister Henry Madzorera says that the country is reporting up to 50 cases of typhoid a day. 'By the end of December 2011, more than 1,500 cases had been seen and treated.'

Zimbabwe officials to investigate typhoid outbreak

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 2/1/2012

Health officials in the African nation of Zimbabwe have called for an overhaul of the national water and sanitation systems. There has been an unprecedented outbreak of typhoid in that country that has affected more than 1,500 people. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Zimbabwe Health ...

Hassan Osman Abdi, director of the Shabelle Media Network, was shot and killed by unidentified men outside his home in the city's Wadajir district over the weekend. The reporter, who also went under the name of 'Hassan Fantastic,' is the second journalist to be killed in the last six weeks in Somalia.

Al-Shabab bans Red Cross from stricken sections of Somalia

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 2/1/2012

Somalia's militant Islamist organization has banned the International Committee of the Red Cross from that African nation's most stricken areas. In a statement, al-Shabab declared that it had "decided to fully terminate the contract" of the RED CROSS, claiming the organization had handed ...

Reserve Bank governor Gideon Gono says that the Chinese Yuan would be introduced alongside the Zimbabwean dollar. Mugabe's political supporters have been calling for currency reforms to bring back the Zimbabwean dollar.

Zimbabwe could adapt Chinese currency for its own

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 1/27/2012

The Chinese and the Chinese government have infiltrated all forms of life in the African nation of Zimbabwe - from its trendiest stores to its poorest slums. If some senior government bureaucrats have their way, the country could soon find itself adopting the Chinese Yuan as its official ...

Thousands were displaced by Kenya post-election in the years 2007 and 2008. Many have taken refuge on lands northwest of Nairobi, where their government has promised them one-acre farms to till. Many of those promises have remained not kept many years later.

Promises made to displaced farmers in Kenya not honored

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 1/25/2012

Thousands were displaced by Kenya post-election in the years 2007 and 2008. Many have taken refuge on lands northwest of Nairobi, where their government has promised them one-acre farms to till. Many of those promises have remained not kept many years later. The government says that many of ...

South Sudan has been riddled with violence ever since declaring its independence from Sudan. Fighting between the Murle and Lou Nuer tribes have left thousands dead, and humanitarian aid to the area has been hampered on account of its isolated location.

Thousands dead in inter-ethnic fighting in South Sudan

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 1/25/2012

South Sudan has been riddled with violence ever since declaring its independence from Sudan. Fighting between the Murle and Lou Nuer tribes have left thousands dead, and humanitarian aid to the area has been hampered on account of its isolated location. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic online) - The ...

Gunfire tore thorough some areas of Kano over the weekend, despite a strict curfew imposed which will remain in place until further notice, officials say.

178 people killed in bombings in Nigeria

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 1/23/2012

The death toll from the latest series of terrorist bombings in Kano, Nigeria has climbed to 178, and may climb even higher. Coordinated bombings and gunfire tore through Nigeria's second-largest city, by far the deadliest attack by the radical Islamist group Boko Haram to date. LOS ANGELES, ...

At a sprawling Mogadishu refugee camp, one woman said she was grateful for a plastic sheet over her ramshackle stick hut that keeps her children dry. For another woman, a daily cup of porridge for everyone in her family was keeping them going.

Many Somali men return home to work farmlands

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 1/19/2012

East Africa has been devastated by drought and famine for the past six months, sending many Somali families to pour into nearby refugee camps. There is a positive sign amid all the starvation, however: many Somali men are leaving the camps to work their farmlands back at home. Seasonal ...

An unidentified member of the tourist group that was attacked walks with his head covered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Jan. 18, 2012.

European tourists killed in terrorist attack in Ethiopia

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 1/19/2012

Five European tourists were shot and killed in a terrorist attack in northern Ethiopia. Two people were wounded and two others were kidnapped in the attack. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Calling the attack "an act of open terrorism," officials say that the gunmen came from neighboring ...

South Africa will pay 1.5 billion of the two billion dollars the railway will cost, while Swaziland will pay for the rest. Construction will start next year and end in 2016.

Railway to improve goods delivery between South Africa and Swaziland

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 1/17/2012

A railway line, over 90 miles will be built between South Africa and Swaziland to help reduce the cost of doing business between the two countries. South Africa's Minister of Public Enterprises Malusi Gigaba says that South Africa will pay 1.5 billion of the two billion dollars the railway ...

Archaeologists concluded from artifacts that she sang in Karnak Temple, one of the most famous and largest open-air sites from the Pharaonic era.

First female tomb unrelated to royalty found in Valley of the Kings

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 1/16/2012

According to Mansour Boraiq, the top government official for the Antiquities' Ministry in the city of Luxor, the most recent archaeological find is the only tomb of a woman not related to the ancient Egyptian royal families. Discovered in the Valley of the Kings, Egyptian and Swiss ...