Category: ARCHIVES

ABERDEEN FREETOWN NOVEMBER 6, 2015 (CISA) – Sierra Leone, worst hit by the Ebola Virus disease in West Africa, is preparing to mark the end of Ebola transmission on November 7 2015, if no new case of the virus is recorded. On this day if the nation marks 42 days without any new infections, they […]

DAR ES SALAAM, NOVEMBER 6, 2015 (CISA)-Dr. John Pombe Magufuli Joseph was sworn in as Tanzania’s fifth President in a colourful event that took place at the Uhuru Grounds in Temeke, Dar es Salaam on November 5. “I promise to work to the best of my ability to deliver our election pledges after taking the […]

DAKAR NOVEMBER 3, 2015 (CISA) – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has said that better laws, concrete data and widespread education are needed to tackle the “disease” of statelessness that affect the lives of more than a million people across West Africa. “Statelessness is like a disease, you pass it on to […]

MAKENI CITY NOVEMBER 3, 2015 (CISA) – Most Reverend Natale Paganelli was on October 31 ordained as the new bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Makeni. The Episcopal Ordination took place in Makeni city, in northern Sierra Leone and was presided over by Archbishop Miroslaw Adamczyk, Apostolic Nuncio of Liberia, Sierra Leone and The Gambia, […]

LAGOS OCTOBER 30 2015(CISA) – Archbishop Dr Alfred Adewale Martins of the Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos has said that the newly established Catholic Church-owned University, Augustine University, will contribute immensely to meeting the needs of personal, social and economic development of Nigerians. “These needs would be achieved through the pursuit of a broad spectrum of academic […]

DAR ES SALAAM OCTOBER 30 (CISA) – Tanzania’s governing Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party candidate John Magufuli has won the presidential elections, the National Electoral Commission announced on Thursday October 29. Mr Magufuli who turned 56 on Thursday won with 8,882,935 votes (58 percent) to his closest rival Mr Edward Lowassa’s 6,072,848 votes (40 percent) in […]

KIGALI OCTOBER 30 2015 (CISA) – Rwanda’s lower house of parliament on October 29 passed a constitutional amendment allowing President Paul Kagame to run for a third consecutive term. Constitutional changes still have to be approved by the upper house, before being put to a national referendum but if approved, it could see President Kagame potentially […]

MANDERA OCTOBER 27, 2015 (CISA) – The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, after visiting Mandera county, plans to provide primary assistance for 25,000 people. The idea is to provide better products and services to improve mother-child care among the most vulnerable people. They intend to provide more efficient medical supply chain, increase […]

JOHANNESBURG OCTOBER 23, 2015(CISA) –National church leaders of South Africa have raised concerns over the student fee crisis in the country. In a statement sent to CISA issued after the Annual National Church Leaders’ Consultation (NCLC) gathering in Johannesburg from 21-22 October 2015 on the student fee crisis, the church leaders condemned “the unnecessary use of […]

KINSHASA OCTOBER 23, 2015 (CISA) – The Catholic Church in the Democratic Republic of Congo has dissociated itself from the choice for the new presidency of the Independent National Election Commission (INIC), made by the platform of country’s religious denominations. “During fraternal discussion between representatives of diverse religious Confession there emerged considerable differences regarding important principles to […]