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...
On October 30, 2014, the Enough Team mentions the Africa Faith and Justic Network as a signer of the “Open Letter on Conflict Minerals” in Enough. Read the full letter here:...
By AFJN Intern Erika De LeenerNamibia’s ruling South West Africa People’s Organization ( SWAPO) party has delivered its promise of equal gender representation.With 51% of Namibia’s population being woman it seems only fitting that there is equal representation.Not...
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...
On October 1st, 2014, AFJN authors and publishes a report titled “Land Grabbing in Africa: Herakles Farms’ Failed Venture in Brewaniase, Ghana” in the Land Portal Foundation. Read the report here:...
Read Robert Kibet’s September 22, 2014 article “Kenya’s Ogiek Women Conquer Cultural Barriers to Support their Families” in Global Issues here: https://www.globalissues.org/news/2014/09/22/20098
United Kingdom Secretary of State for International Development Justine Greening visited Zambia in July. She said Zambia had enjoyed impressive economic growth and had seen 1.2 million more children in schools and 40 per cent reduction in child mortality. She...
Kenya is renowned for its distance runners who have won races all over the world. The Kenyans showed their prowess again recently at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, where they won 10 gold medals. Nine of the 10 gold came in running events, while Julius...
By Nicole Ngambwa What sort of crime did Meriam Yehya Ibrahim commit for the Sudanese government in Khartoum to imprison her while pregnant, sentence her to 100 lashes and death by hanging, and in an unexpected twist re-arrest her a day after she was freed? Meriam...
On September 16th, 2016, the Global Witness published a press release titled “Una nueva ley de la UE podría detener el recrudecimiento de los conflictos por el comercio de recursos naturales”. AFJN is credited as a signer on a joint letter to the EU...
