Month: June 2013
Chief Prosecutor of the ICC, Fatou Bensouda Fatou Bensouda of The Gambia was sworn in as chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in 2012. Justice Bensouda is the first…
US President Barack Obama is scheduled to visit Tanzania in a few days as part of his second trip to Africa. We urge President Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania to discuss…
Source: http://www.coons.senate.gov FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, June 28, 2013 CONTACT: Ian Koski at 202-224-5042 United States Senate calls for stronger international commitment to sustaining peace in Democratic Republic of Congo…
Opportunities and Challenges of Achieving the Mission South Sudan’s long track records of successive initiatives, combined with deep and fresh emotional wounds from the civil war suggest that the road…
by Elizabeth Stack, AFJN Intern The Tribunal for the Southern African Development Community (SADC) was established in 1992 and enacted by a protocol signed at a summit in Namibia in 2000…
This Press Release was issued by the office of Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs Senator Coons condemns Ugandan government’s violent suppression…
A day after his appointment as the US Special Representative for the African Great Lakes region and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 17 organizations, among them Africa Faith and…
WASHINGTON — Nineteen advocacy groups and Congo experts applaud U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry for his appointment of former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) as the new U.S. Special…
by Jacques Bahati Former Senator from Wisconsin, Russ Feingold, has been appointed US Special Representative for the African Great Lakes region and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. National and…
“When ants unite their mouths, they can carry an elephant,” says an African proverb.
