AFJN News, Articles, and Information
Under the leadership of Congresswoman Karen Bass, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's (CBCF) Africa Braintrust held its annual conference on Friday 21, 2013 in Washington DC. This year's conference focused on the 50th Anniversary of Martin Luther King's...
On September 16, 59 civil society organizations from across the globe, among them Africa Faith and Justice Network (AFJN), published a position paper urging the European Union (EU) to pass a more sweeping conflict mineral law. This push for regulatory mechanisms to...
By AFJN Executive Director Aniedi Okure, OP, On February 16, 2013 the Symposium of the Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) issued a pastoral letter titled "Governance, Common Good, and Democratic Transitions in Africa" calling on the Church to be...
By AFJN Executive Director Aniedi Okure, OP On February 16, 2013 the Symposium of the Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) issued a pastoral letter titled "Governance, Common Good, and Democratic Transitions in Africa" calling on the Church to be...
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 calling for...
On August 23, North Kivu Civil Society coalition's Vice President and spokesperson Mr. Omar Kambale Kavota and his colleague Eudoxie Nziavake left Washington DC after a week of advocacy for peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Three experts from the Ministry of...
“The people are fed up with the United Nations (UN) peace missions in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). They are determined to do whatever it takes to end the war and they want the UN peacekeepers to leave DRC if they do not carry out their mandate. Mr. Kambala...
On July 23, 2013, the court ruled in favor of the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) final rules which govern section 1502 of the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act against the National Association of Manufacturers, Chamber of Commerce...
On July 7, 2013, Graham Peebles quoted AFJN questioning the motives of the exploration missiong by saying “With the discovery of petroleum leading to exploration missions by foreign companies, the government’s motives [in the region] are questionable” in his article...