Africa

The Ethiopian government carries out two airstrikes on the troubled Tigray region, targeting TPLF assets in Mekelle, Tigray's capital.

Investors and social entrepreneurs from across the globe meet up online for a three-day conference to create connections and work toward a more humane, just, and sustainable economy.

Children and staff at the "Foyer Nazareth" orphanage in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, thank Pope Francis for the gift of medicines he sent them recently. The head of the institute, Sister Elise Vouakouanitout, sent the thank you message, also signed by the children.

United Nations agencies say that 3 years of consecutive severe drought as well as floods, cyclones and locust outbreaks in southern Madagascar have wiped out harvests and hampered people’s access to food.

Pope Francis said he hopes to continue traveling next year, including making visits to countries in Oceania and Southeast Asia.

On a quiet, breezy morning, Sister Dorothy Okoli stood amid schoolchildren ages 6-12 in a classroom, teaching them English. It is a class she says she enjoys teaching, having studied English and guidance and counseling at the university.

Eswatini, the former Swaziland, needs a "dialogue about a dialogue" to set the scene for urgent negotiations toward democratic reform, the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference said after a weeklong solidarity and pastoral visit to the country.

Diane Munezero, a 48-year-old mother of three who survived the genocide by hiding in the bush for several weeks before being rescued by soldiers from the Rwandan Patriotic Front, told Catholic News Service: "We are happy as survivors because the church has taken the responsibility of the role they played during the massacre. They are now talking about it and reconciling people. It brings healing in our hearts, and we are now able to forgive the church and the priests who took part in the massacre."

Three seminarians kidnapped from their Seminary in the diocese of Kafanchan, Kaduna, in Nigeria’s northern region have regained their freedom after spending nearly two days in the hands of their abductors.

A group of gunmen attacked Christ the King Major Seminary, Kaduna, northern Nigeria on Monday, injuring several seminarians and kidnapping three.

Sitting outside her new tent on the outskirts of Goma, Congo, Jeanette Kitoko breathed a sigh of relief after a group of local Catholic leaders helped resettle her with her two children.

Churches need to make it their mission to get people in developing countries vaccinated against COVID-19, said a representative of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar.

Young African professionals engage in dialogue and reflection on being agents of change inspired by Pope Francis’ call for economic justice and an economy that leaves no one behind.

Pope Francis has sent financial aid to South Sudanese affected by devastating floods and to residents in areas of Greece where fires destroyed vast swaths of territory.

As young people from around the world discuss ways to make the global economy more respectful of human dignity and of the gift of creation, a group of young adults in Africa shared a notion from their cultural wisdom.

Pope Francis calls for the safety of all Nigerians to be guaranteed in the wake of attacks by suspected Islamist militants which killed at least 40 people.

Pope Francis may have kissed the feet of South Sudan's warring political leaders in a dramatic 2019 appeal for peace, but armed conflict continues to cause death and displacement in the world's newest country, pushing Catholic leaders here to plead for the conflict's victims.

As they marked the Season of Creation, Catholics in Africa celebrated the Congo Basin as the second "lung" of the earth and called for its protection to fight climate change.

It is not unusual these days to find Raymond Okello, who lives in the Karamoja area of northeastern Uganda, washing dishes, tending the kitchen garden, or caring for the baby when home.

Members of Guinea's armed forces announced a takeover of the government and the closure of the country's borders. International organizations including the AU, UN, and ECOWAS have condemned the move and called for respect for the rule of law.