On May 20th, 2021, the National Catholic Reporter’s Global Sisters Report published an article titled, “Sisters fight Nigeria trafficking with networking, advocacy and collaboration” by Patrick Egwu. Sr. Eucharia Madueke of AFJN speaks on the...
On March 23rd, 2021, the Human Rights Watch featured an article titled “The Need for a US Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region”. AFJN’s policy analyst Jacques Bahati is listed as a signer of a joint letter to the U.S. Secretary of State regarding...
On March 23rd, 2021, the Human Rights Watch published an article titled “Need to appoint a US special envoy for the Great Lakes. Joint Letter to United States Secretary of State”. AJFN is mentioned as a signer of this letter advocating for increased...
On March 23rd, 2021, allAfrica published a press release titled “Central Africa: The Need for a US Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region” written by The Human Rights Watch. AFJN is mentioned as signing the joint letter in support of advocacy for U.S....
February 16, 2021 By Mariah Omer, AFJN Student Intern Divina Maloum is a young Cameroonian peace and social advocate. She is a winner of the fifteenth International Children’s Peace Prize, of 2019. Maloum was awarded for her efforts in “Promoting...
AFJN was mentioned in an article by Latindadd titled “Civil Society Organizations Call for Quick Special Drawing Rights Allocation”. AFJN was a part of 240 organizations that signed an a letter calling for a quick special drawing rights allocation. Find...
By Iman Mekonen Edited by Ntama Bahati The ongoing armed conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region has displaced many people into neighboring countries. According to the Los Angeles Times, at least 45,000 Ethiopian — mostly Tigrayans — have fled to neighboring Sudan....
December 2, 2020By Mariah Omer, AFJN Intern Both the African Union (AU) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) prohibit the overthrow of democratically elected governments by the process of a coup. Did their response to the recent military coup...
By Iman MekonenEdited by Ntama Bahati Out of the 193 total United Nations (UN) Member states, 54 represent African countries. Only four women representing their own countries have addressed its General Assembly. This is an important forum for a head of state to not...
On August 14th, 2020, the AFJN Exe. Dir. Aniedi Okure was questioned on his thoughts regarding the controversy of Joe Biden’s choice of Kamala Harris as his vice presidential running mate in the article “‘Left-wing anti-Catholic’ –...
