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Month: February 2020

Challenges Facing Africa: 2019 in Review

February 21, 2020

Click here for highlights of what we have done about some of these challenges. An analysis of the challenges facing Africa over the years reveals a major perennial problem. Seemingly…

Songhai Center Model: the Future for Africa’s Food Security

February 13, 2020

Why is Africa so rich, but is inhabited by the planet’s poorest people?  Some governments have gone as far as leasing land to agro-businesses for large scale agriculture as a possible…

What is Burning in Your Heart?

February 10, 2020

A Reflection on a Three-Day Workshop for Tanzania Catholic Association of Sisters “What is burning in your heart after these days?” asked one AFJN team member following the meeting of…

Africa Faith & Justice Network Highlight the Feast of Saint Josephine Bakhita, Patron of Trafficked Persons

February 10, 2020

Uganda On February 8, the feast of St. Josephine Bakita, the Africa Faith & Justice Network Uganda (AFJN-Uganda) organized a nationwide prayer session for the victims of human trafficking, and…

Yes to Agroecology, No to Agro-colonialism

February 10, 2020

Africa Faith and Justice Network is one of the 176 organizations which signed a letter to the United Nations Secretary General, António Guterres in effort to protect Africa’s food system…

Is partitioning the Democratic Republic of Congo the true reason for the killing in Beni?

February 10, 2020

An interview with Florentin Mokonda Bonza, Professor at the University of Kinshasa and President of the Convention of Christian Democrats (CDC) and of the political platform the New Initiative for…

Message from the bishops, priests, and lay delegates of the Conferences of Catholic Bishops of Burkina-Niger, Ivory Coast, and Ghana

February 3, 2020

To the faithful in Christ, men and women of good will, who love justice and peace: 1.Given the gravity of the security and humanitarian situation facing the populations of their…