Victor Otieno
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213 appearances
7 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 4 Jul
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Recently, authorities in Spain also cancelled a World Cup-friendly game that the Congolese national football squad was supposed to participate in against Chile.
They cancelled that over concerns about the spread of Ebola virus.
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Equatorial Guinea is very symbolic and significant because it has a very huge Catholic population.
And so the Pope is there to also reassure the church, especially because they have been waiting for a papal visit for over 40 years.
and also because the country is currently what some analysts have described as authoritarianism, and so the Pope was there to address some of the social ills which he felt that, you know, bringing down the country.
He did speak about the exclusion and social inequality and the need for the government there to address it.
He also spoke to the local authorities there about, you know, the need for...
to ensure that the country's resources are equitably distributed and that those are also felt and relished by the population.
As it stands now, the country is very rich in oil since it was discovered in the mid-1990s, but some observers have said that it has not gone down to the people who do not also benefit from that.
As a matter of fact, the World Bank says that nearly half of the country's population is living in poverty.
So you can imagine why the Pope today put out a very strong message in the presence of the country's president, Theodore Obiangema Basogo, saying that there is need for justice, for social equality.
Well, I think that the Pope's visit to Africa sends a message across to governments that despite the fact that he's a religious figure, he has that moral voice to correct the wrongs and the ills of society.
And he demonstrated that without blinking.
When he was in Cameroon, he did speak outrightly against corruption, against lack of transparency and the need for the government to look into the challenges or problems facing young people, women and the civil society.
And he did repeat that today in Equatorial Guinea.
And we also know that he's been involved in some sort of a spat with US President Donald Trump, just essentially trying to say that they are a moral voice and they have that obligation to correct what's going wrong in society.
So Pope Leo, I think what he believes is in the course of this trip,
He's going to be ensuring the international community that Africa, which is a promising terrain for the Catholic Church, would be seeing some sort of development going forward, and especially because he has preached peace, reconciliation, dialogue, and, of course, interfaith dialogue, of course.
Victor, can you explain to me what is going on here?
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