BAMAKO AUGUST 28, 2015(CISA) – Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is working to support displaced people and hungry school students in Mali despite ongoing violence while calling for more humanitarian aid to help stabilize the country. “For Catholic Relief Services, this means that the lack of law and order in the North can cause humanitarian emergencies, and […]
Day: 31 August 2015
S SUDAN: Rebels, Army Trade Blames over Attacks
JUBA AUGUST 28, 2015 (CISA) – South Sudanese rebels and the army have for the second time in a week accused each other of attacks, barely a day after President Salva Kiir signed a peace deal. Former Vice President Riek Machar said that South Sudanese government troops had attacked towns held by the rebels, reported Reuters. […]
UGANDA: Kampala Archdiocese Opens new Church in L Victoria Island
KAKYANGA AUGUST 28, 2015(CISA) – Catholic Archdiocese of Kampala on August 23 opened a new church to be known as St Mary Catholic Sub-Parish church at Kakyanga, one of Lake Victoria’s islands. The new sub-parish is under Buyege Catholic Parish in Bussi sub-county, Wakiso district. The church was opened by Archbishop Cyprian Kizito Lwanga of the […]
KENYA: President Kenyatta Calls for Collaboration to Handle Drug Menace
MOMBASA, AUGUST 28, 2015(CISA) – President Uhuru Kenyatta has called upon all leaders to join hands and work with security agencies to ensure elimination of drugs and substance abuse and traffickers made to pay for their crimes in Coast region. “My administration will not relent. We shall destroy any vessel on land, sea or air that […]