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Month: June 2006

How You Can Help Advocate for a Peaceful Congo

June 26, 2006

The best way to receive timely updates and alerts about how to be most effective in advocating for a better future for the people of the Congo is to sign up…

Hope for a Unified Somalia

June 23, 2006

In early June of 2006, Islamic militants stormed Somalia’s capital city of Mogadishu–site of the 1993 killings of 18 American marines, captured in the movie Black Hawk Down–and wrested control…

Congo Action Plan

June 22, 2006

Democratic Republic of the Congo is roughly the size of Western Europe. It’s establishment of a peaceful future is critical for the stability of the entire region. It’s difficult past…

HIV/AIDS Policy to Protect Life

June 21, 2006

AFJN works with faith-based and other organizations to bring a comprehensive understanding of the devastation of HIV/AIDS in impoverished countries in Africa.  U.S. leaders need to be encouraged to address…

Promote Reunification and Stability in Côte d’Ivoire

June 21, 2006

Since 2002, Côte d’Ivoire has been paralyzed by a divide between the rebel-held North and the army-controlled South. The instability began in 1999 when General Robert Guei organized a coup…

Day of the African Child

June 20, 2006

On June 16th, the world celebrated The Day of the African Child to commemorate student uprisings in Soweto, South Africa in 1976.  Demanding a better quality of education, thousands of black school children took…

End Human Rights Abuses in Zimbabwe

June 14, 2006

Since President Robert Mugabe began seizing white-owned farms in 1999, the country has been plunged into a state of severe economic and political decline. Though whites in Zimbabwe made up…

“Americans Urge Bush Over LRA”

June 8, 2006

“Americans Urge Bush Over LRA” Ugandan New Vision article about AFJN petition on northern Uganda