Tag: Africa
Interactive Map of the Sahel Region
June 19, 2012
The World Food Programme has an excellent interactive map of the countries affected by the current Sahel food crisis. Click on the image below to go to the interactive map, which is a good compliment to OCHA’s Snapshot of the Sahel Crisis. Source: World Food Programme
G8 Addresses Hunger in Africa
May 18, 2012
President Obama has invited four leaders of African nations to attend the G8 summit this weekend at Camp David to discuss efforts to fight hunger in the developing world: Presidents Thomas Yayi Boni of Benin, John Mills of Ghana and Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania, and Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia. Catholic Relief Services has worked [...]
Q&A: Sahel Food Crisis – Niger
February 6, 2012
Bill Canny, Director of Emergency Operations for Catholic Relief Services, recently traveled to Niger to see how the Sahel food crisis is affecting people in that country. Up to 12 million people are at risk of famine in the Sahel, the area of Africa bordering the Sahara desert, according to the UN. The area is [...]
Expert Interview: One-Year Anniversary of South Sudan Referendum
January 2, 2012
As the one-year anniversary of South Sudan’s referendum approaches, we spoke with Dan Griffin, CRS’ Sudan Advisor, who traveled to South Sudan for its historic vote on Jan. 9, 2011 as well as the country’s independence celebrations six months later. He also recently attended the International Engagement Conference for South Sudan, held in Washington, DC, [...]
Pope Benedict XVI: Africa Can Teach Authentic Values to the World
November 21, 2011
The Vatican Information Service reports on the farewell remarks of Pope Benedict XVI Sunday as he departed Benin after a two-day pastoral visit, in which he held up Africa as an exemplar to all of humanity. “Here are found authentic values which have much to teach our world; they need only to spread and blossom [...]
Key Ideas and Summary of 'Africae Munus' (the Pledge for Africa)
November 19, 2011
The Vatican Information Service has released a summary of the key ideas in Africae Munus (the Pledge for Africa), the Post-Synodal Exhortation from the 2009 Synod for Africa. Pope Benedict XVI signed the document in a ceremony today at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Ouidah, Benin. The summary was prepared by Archbishop Nicola Eterovic, [...]
Pope Benedict Arrives in Benin
November 18, 2011
Vatican Radio has posted an English translation of the remarks of Pope Benedict XVI delivered (in French) on his arrival in Benin. Here is an excerpt, in which he sounds the themes he’ll focus on during his 48-hour pastoral visit. Modernity need not provoke fear, but neither can it be constructed by neglecting the past. [...]
Papal Visit to Benin – CRS' Christophe Droeven on Church's Work with the Poor
November 17, 2011
Pope Benedict XVI is set to visit the small West African nation of Benin on Friday, on his second visit to the continent. Benin represents a success story for Catholicism and its extraordinary growth in Africa – an increase of almost 7,000 per cent during the 20th century. CRS spoke with Benin country representative Christophe [...]
Creating a Strong African-American Voice for Africa
November 7, 2011
The Rev. Derrick Boykin, Associate for African-American Leadership Outreach for Bread for the World, writes on the Huffington Post about visiting two small rural villages in Malawi, where he saw education, nutrition and sanitation programs facilitated by Catholic Relief Services. We saw firsthand the effects of the Scaling Up Nutrition campaign (SUN) in these two [...]
The Face of a Famine
September 1, 2011
Somalis are continuing to flee from the drought and conflict in their homeland as the worst famine for decades in the Horn of Africa region bites harder. The disaster has already killed tens of thousands of people, especially children. Laura Sheahen visited the huge Dadaab refugee camp in eastern Kenya on behalf of Catholic Relief [...]