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SJ Africa News: Issue no. 12
January - February 2010

At the beginning of this new year 2010 we received the news that Father General,
Adolfo Nicolás, has decided, after hearing from the Provincial of Portugal, Fr. Nuno da Silva Gonçalves and from the Provincial of Central Africa, Fr. Ntima Nkanza, to transfer the mission of Angola from Portugal (POR) to the Province of Central Africa (ACE). The mission of Angola will officially become part and parcel of the Province of Central Africa at all levels as of the 2 August 2010 at a ceremony of transfer which will take place in Luanda the day we dedicate to the blessed Peter Favre.| more (PDF)

These two months have been coloured by Assistancy-wide meetings. The bursars of our three common houses, Arrupe College, Hekima College and ITCJ-Abidjan, met in Africama house on the 18 and 19 March 2010 to work on a common chart of accounts. This chart is hoped to be in use in the coming fiscal year. And Fr. Mathieu Ndomba, S.J., the new bursar for ITCJ-Abidjan, and I travelled in time to ITCJ-Abidjan for the annual Board of Governors (BoG) meeting which was scheduled for three days from the 21st of March. After concluding the BoG, I flew east, to Kigali-Rwanda via Nairobi to assist at two important meetings, one of the treasurers (JESTRAM) and the one of the Development Directors (JEDOAM). But due to flight limitations and scheduling, I was only able to meet with some of the treasurers on their last day.| more (PDF)