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Month: February 2015

Lecture on Dialogue with Islam, featuring Archbishop Fitzgerald!

February 26, 2015

Ethiopia Selected Among Top Ten Best Tourist Destinations for 2015

February 24, 2015

One of the leading publishers of travel guidebooks, Rough Guides, recently held an online vote allowing its readers to select their top international destination choices for 2015. According to the…

ADF-NALU is Africa Great Lakes’ version of Boko Haram

February 23, 2015

Why should we deal with the rise of the Allied Democratic Forces and National Army for the Liberation of Uganda (ADF-NALU) now?  ADF-NALU another extremist Islamic group was originally opposed…

Don’t Repeal or Weaken an Effective Law: Dodd-Frank 1502

February 18, 2015

On Friday, February 6th, AFJN’s Policy Analyst Jacques Bahati joined Sasha Lezhnev of the Enough Project and Carly Oboth from Global Witness on Capitol Hill to brief staffers from the…

Kenya Wind Farm Project

February 16, 2015

By Rita Murphy Kenya has stepped up its efforts to transform 40,000 acres of land into a huge wind farm, in a bid to meet growing demand for electricity. The…

On Boko Haram and the shame on the Government

February 13, 2015

Why has the Nigerian army been unable to contain or eradicate Islamist rebel group Boko Haram, which consistently burns villages and churches, killing and kidnapping Muslims and non-Muslims alike? One…

Advocacy for a Stronger European Union Conflict Mineral Law

February 5, 2015

On January 28, two days before meeting her US counterpart Secretary of State John Kerry, Margot Wallstrom, Foreign Minister of Sweden, met with a delegation from the Enough Project and…

Global Response to African Issues; Nigeria and the Crisis of Boko Haram

February 3, 2015

Three days before the Paris attack which targeted the satirical news magazine Charlie Hebdo on January 7, 2015, Boko Haram, an Islamist group massacred people in Baga, a town in…

Ugandan Doctor Leads Ebola-fighting Team in Liberia

February 2, 2015

Edited by Rita Murphy, story distributed by AllAfrica.com A Liberian newspaper, Daily Observer, has singled out Dr. Anne Deborah Atai-Omoruto, an Ugandan doctor, as one of 2014’s persons of the…