Year: 2009
Thanks again to everyone who signed our online petition earlier this year regarding the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act of 2009 (S. 1067, H.R. 2478). You’ll be…
In his opening remarks at the November 4th hearing entitled “Copenhagen and Beyond: Is there a Successor to the Kyoto Protocol?”, U.S house committee of international Relations’ Chairman, Congressman Howard Berman …
Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, the current head of state in Guinea was shot on Thursday, December 3, 2009 by his Camp aid Aboubakar Sidiki Diakite known as Toumba. According to Radio France…
Corporate responsibility http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/11/2009111192747615233.html Thousands of people in Ivory Coast poisoned by toxic waste face being cheated out of $45m in compensation after the money, which was deposited in a bank…
By Allison Burket Ariticle originally published in the Nov-Dec 09 edition of Around Africa A recent conference on Capitol Hill, hosted by a think tank called the Center for Advanced…
PrefaceThe following pages contain the public message of challenge and hope that the Second Special Synod of Catholic Bishops for Africa offer to people of good will. This three week gathering…
Late August, President Obama issued a request for an interagency review of all U.S. global development policy, responding to the calls from civil society and members of his own administration.…
By Rocco Puopolo s.x., Executive Director Bishop George Biguzzi of the Diocese of Makeni, Sierra Leone, was recently invited to Washington to make a presentation on migration in West Africa…
October 16 is World Food Day at the UN, and this year focus is how to achieve food security in times of crisis. This is a timely topic on the heels of last year’s food price crisis, the recent financial crisis, and the ongoing and accelerating climate crisis – this year, the global financial crisis has pushed over 1 billion people into hunger, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s latest annual report. Africa in particular feels the pangs of such a global crisis, where around 30 percent of the total population is estimated to be suffering from chronic hunger and malnutrition.
As part of the Presidential Study Directive on Foreign Assistance, initiated by President Obama at the end of August, the National Security Council has socilcited input from the NGO community…
By Rocco Puopolo, S.X., Executive Director As you read this very newsletter, a number of Bishops from Africa and around the world are meeting in Rome for the Second Special…
Earlier this month, the Zimbabwain Bishops put out a powerful pastoral letter on healing and reconciliation in their nation, entitled “God Can Heal the Wounds of the Afflicted.” “Today, we…
During a panel discussion with the U.S. Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mr. Bill Garvelink hosted by the Washington DC chapter of the Society for International Development,…
October is shaping up to be an important month for action on climate change. Last week alone, President Obama indicated his support for the Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to regulate…
During her August trip to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Secretary of State Hillary Clinton saw her mission as the beginning of a new chapter in the U.S-DRC…
Catholic Task Force on Africa announces the new websitewww.yesafricamatters.org. The Task Force uses the occasion of the Second Special Assembly for Africa, popularly known as the Second African Synod of…
Justice in Democratic Republic of the Congo is mainly accessible to and protects the powerful, those who run the system, the politically connected, and the rich who influence decision making…
Justice in Democratic Republic of the Congo is mainly accessible to and protects the powerful, those who run the system, the politically connected, and the rich who influence decision making…
Women in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are the silenced victims of a war that has lasted nearly 14 years. The number of victims grows daily as massive rapes…
By Rocco Puopolo s.x., Executive Director The Second Special Assembly of Bishops on Africa ended in Rome on October 25th. But the process continues, and the main agents are those…
