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Update on Northern Uganda/LRA Bill

December 30, 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…

Climate Change Debate in Copenhagen: U.S Fears and Opportunities

December 18, 2009

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 …

The Guinea Crisis

December 7, 2009

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…

AFJN Europe on Corporate responsibility, Arms, Foreign land acquisitions, Agricultural policies and the development and much more

December 4, 2009

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…

AFRICOM: When it comes to aid to Mali, paitence isn’t always a virture

December 3, 2009

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…