ARUSHA, JANUARY 23, 2015 (CISA)-The three factions of South Sudan’s governing Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) have signed an agreement to re-unifying the party. The deal was signed at Ngurdoto Hotel in Arusha, Tanzanian on Wednesday January 21 by President Salva Kiir, rebel leader Riek Machar, representatives of former SPLM detainees and former cabinet minister Deng Alor in the presence of Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete. The accord addresses the root causes of the intra-party conflict, which plunged the country into crisis on December 15 2013. Other regional leaders who witnessed the signing including Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta, Uganda’s President Yoweri…

KINSHASA, JANUARY 23, 2015 (CISA) –The Catholic Church in the Democratic Republic of Congo has urged people to peacefully oppose President Kabila move to delay presidential elections until a census is held and further condemned police brutality against protesters, reported BBC. The Catholic Church has backed protests against President Joseph Kabila extending his rule. Cardinal Monsengwo Pasinya Archbishop of Kinshasa called on the public to challenge by all “legal and peaceful means any attempt to change laws that are essential to the electoral process.” “Stop killing your people,” he told the police in a press statement. Officials in DRC said…

NAIROBI JANUARY 23, 2015(CISA)–The Catholic Church in Kenya has no reason to fear the proposed regulations that would regulate and monitor religious leaders working in the country. In a phone interview with CISA, the Chairman of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB), Commission for Clergy and Religious (Liaison Committee) Bishop Anthony Ireri Mukobo, said the Catholic Church in Kenya already has regulations which are known by the government. “We have our regulations which are known by the government and they know that we are very organized and well behaved. In fact, every diocese submits its returns every year,” Bishop…

NAIROBI JANUARY 23, 2015(CISA) – The Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) has expressed concern over the increasing incidences of grabbing of public utility land by the so called ‘private developers’. In a statement signed by Bishop Anthony Crowley, on the grabbing of Lang’ata Primary School playground and the brutal action of the police on protesting pupils, vice chairman Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) – Commission for Education and  Religious Education  has called upon the Kenya government to  “bring to book” those behind land grabbing in the country. “… There was another confrontation over the grabbing of land belonging to…