Responses to US Troops in Central Africa

ACHOLI RELIGIOUS LEADERS PEACE INITIATIVE October 24, 2011 Response to the Deployment of U.S. Military Advisors to LRA Affected Regions For us, the Acholi Religious Leaders’ Peace Initiative (ARLPI), President Obama’s October 14th announcement that 100 U.S. troops...

Responses to US Troops in Central Africa

ACHOLI RELIGIOUS LEADERS PEACE INITIATIVE Response to the Deployment of U.S. Military Advisors to LRA Affected Regions For us, the Acholi Religious Leaders’ Peace Initiative (ARLPI), President Obama’s October 14th announcement that 100 U.S. troops have been deployed...

Long live Zambia for a peaceful power transfer

by Hervé Cheuzeville, translated  from French by Bahati Jacques.  Originally published by Echo D’Afrique on September 23, 2011  A major event occurred on September 23rd, 2011. Yet it went largely unnoticed in Western countries. The stock market...

Burundi: Preventing a Predictable Civil War

“Burundi has passed an important milestones on the path to peace, but the page of the conflict has not yet been definitively turned. Loyal support from external partners remains necessary,” says the European Network for Central Africa (EURAC) in its October report...

Elections in DRC

The following article is by Jacques Bahati from the July-Sept edition of Around Africa, AFJN’s newsletter.  Direct comments and questions to bahati@afjn.org Preparations for the Democratic Republic of Congo’s General Elections scheduled for November 28th, 2011...