by Rev. Aniedi Okure, OP | Feb 25, 2008
We’ve been told over and over again: the train has left the station. The new U.S. military command for Africa (AFRICOM) is already operational in Stuttgart, Germany. It has temporary funding, much of which has been transferred from other branches of the Department of...
by Rev. Aniedi Okure, OP | Feb 25, 2008
Q&A with Emmanuel Roberts The government of Sierra Leone requested that UN Security Council establish an international tribunal to prosecute individuals responsible for committing atrocities in the country’s brutal civil war, which broke out in 1991 and remains...
by Rev. Aniedi Okure, OP | Feb 25, 2008
In wartime, the crime of rape is not a new phenomenon; but the situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has no comparison. Many reports have been written calling with urgency for national and international action to end the rape pandemic in eastern...
by Rev. Barthelemy Bazemo, MAfr | Feb 20, 2008
On February 25th, the Water Working Group, of which AFJN is a part, delivered a letter to Congress, asking members to support the Water for the World Resolution. The text of the letter is as follows: Dear Member of Congress, At least 1.4 billion people struggle daily...
by Rev. Aniedi Okure, OP | Feb 19, 2008
“The US War on Terror Exported to Rwanda: A Threat to Peace in DRC” Pambazuka News, article by Bahati Jacques and Beth Tuckey in reaction to President Bush’s trip to Africa
