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Month: April 2013

The Epidemic of Land Grabbing is Worse than Colonization: US Companies are Part of the Rip off

April 26, 2013

By Jacques Bahati Advocates, mostly African diaspora, gathered on March 15 in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill to call attention to the tragic effects of  land grabbing…

Capitol Hill: the National Bar Association brainstorming on how to help Africa

April 25, 2013

On March 17, the National Bar Association (NBA), the oldest and largest association of African-American attorneys, judges and law students in the United States and the Constituency for Africa (CFA),…

US soon to appoint Special Envoy to Africa’s Great Lakes region.

April 23, 2013

On April 17, US Secretary of State John Kerry, during a hearing on the budget, told congress that President Obama has chosen and is vetting a person to appoint as…

US Senate: Examining Ongoing Conflict in Eastern Congo

April 17, 2013

On April 16, the Subcommittee on African Affairs of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations held a hearing on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) entitled “Examining Ongoing…

A Tribute to the Life of AFJN’s First Director, Sjef Donders in independent catholic news

April 11, 2013

Fr Joseph Donders, widely known as ‘Sjef’, died on 7 March 2013 in hospital in Maastricht (Holland) aged 83.

President Thomas Sankara’s Leadership on Arms trade to Africa

April 9, 2013

Updated on April 9, 2013  This article was first published in AFJN’s January-March 2013 Newsletter On March 18-28, 2013 the UN held in New York the final conference on arms…

ICC Justice is for Bosco Ntaganda not for the Victims

April 9, 2013

This article was first published in AFJN’s January-March Newsletter By Jacques Bahati, Policy Analyst On March 18, General Bosco Ntaganda, one of the notorious rebel leaders in the Democratic Republic…