Category: ARCHIVES

NAIROBI FEBRUARY 10, 2017(CISA) – The government has declared current drought in over 23 arid and semi-arid counties a national disaster. Speaking February 10 after a brief on the situation on the ground by Cabinet Secretaries involved in drought management and food security at State House Nairobi, President Uhuru Kenyatta called on all stakeholders to support […]

NAIROBI FEBRUARY 10, 2017 (CISA) – The government has said that it will appeal against the High Court ruling on the closure of Dadaab Refugee Camp. A stability Judge John Mativo found that the Government of Kenya had failed to demonstrate in its challenge to the petition filed by the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights and […]

DAKAR JANUARY 17, 2017 (CISA) – Gambian president-elect Adama Barrow is in Senegal and will remain there at the request of West African leaders until his planned inauguration, Senegalese officials have said. Barrow left Gambia for neighboring Senegal on August 15, a day after West African leaders failed to persuade President Yahya Jammeh to step aside, […]

KONONGO-MAMPONG DECEMBER 16, 2016 (CISA)-Bishop Osei-Bonsu of the Catholic Archdiocese of Konongo-Mampong has called on the faithful not to extend celebrations of the victory by New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the polls to the churches. “In as much as it is natural for members of a political party to celebrate a political victory, as it […]

ABUJA DECEMBER 16, 2016 (CISA) – New United Nations UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres yesterday December 16, announced Nigeria’s Environment Minister, Amina Mohammed as his Deputy Secretary-General (DSG). Guterres also announced the appointment of two other women into high-profile positions at the UN; Ms Maria Viotti of Brazil (Chef de Cabinet) and Ms Kyung-wha Kang of […]

ADDIS ABABA, DECEMBER 16, 2016(CISA) – Ethiopian Catholic Church Social and Development Commission (ECC SDCO) in collaboration with Women and Family Affairs has requested the Ethiopian Catholic Schools to integrate the issue of fighting FGM to their system. Speaking at the end of a three-day workshop held between December 12 -14, 2016, for school directors […]

JUBA, DECEMBER 16, 2016 (CISA) – The Apostolic Nuncio to Kenya and South Sudan, Archbishop Charles Balvo has urged Christians to be merciful to one another, citing it as a source of everlasting peace. “Though the Year of Mercy has ended, always be merciful to each other. Being merciful and loving can bring everlasting peace […]

LILONGWE DECEMBER 13, 2016 –Members of the Catholic Church and Evangelical marched on the streets of Malawi to demonstrate against the proposed Abortion and Same Sex Marriages Bill. According to AMECEA news the Christians  came out through their mother bodies, Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM) and Evangelical Association of Malawi (EAM), on December 6, from all the […]

CAIRO DECEMBER 13, 2016 – Pope Francis has expressed his condolences to Pope Towardos II, Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, following the December 11 terrorist attack on a chapel near Coptic cathedral of St. Mark Abbasiya, Cairo. During the December 12 call, Pope Francis expressed his closeness to the patriarch and the hard […]

BANJUL DECEMBER 13, 2016 – West African heads of state began arriving in Gambia today to ask President Yahya Jammeh to accept defeat in this month’s Presidential Election. The delegation is led by Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Nobel Peace laureate and the current chairwoman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). It […]