Africa Must Leapfrog Its Way to the Future

By Ola Orekunrin, edited by Rita Murphy from Think Africa Press. The conventional path for improving healthcare is to build more hospitals and train more doctors. But could Africa speed up progress by ‘hacking’ its way to success? Governments, NGOs and...

AFJN featured in Enough on Conflict Minerals

On October 30, 2014, the Africa Faith and Justice Network was mentioned in the Enough Team’s article “Open Letter on Conflict Minerals” in Enough. Read the full article here: https://enoughproject.org/reports/open-letter-dodd-frank-october-2014

Preventing land-grabbing in Africa

As the international community joins hands to stop the threat of the Ebola virus, Bahati Jacques of Africa Faith and Justice Network, a Catholic advocacy organization based in Washington DC, would like to also shine some light, stop and prevent another serious and...

Pushing for Internet Access

Cardinal Turkson, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace at the Vatican, has called for the extension of internet and other technological facilities to rural areas in order to improve upon the quality of education in villages and towns in West...