Why should we deal with the rise of the Allied Democratic Forces and National Army for the Liberation of Uganda (ADF-NALU) now? ADF-NALU another extremist Islamic group was originally opposed to the Ugandan government. After it was defeated by the Ugandan army it ran...
On Friday, February 6th, AFJN’s Policy Analyst Jacques Bahati joined Sasha Lezhnev of the Enough Project and Carly Oboth from Global Witness on Capitol Hill to brief staffers from the Senate and House on the implementation of Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act...
On January 28, two days before meeting her US counterpart Secretary of State John Kerry, Margot Wallstrom, Foreign Minister of Sweden, met with a delegation from the Enough Project and the Africa Faith & Justice Network to discuss responsible mineral trade as it...
There is an African proverb which says: “The ear is never too old to learn.” In eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mr. Marcel Mugoyi, a long time local chief of several villages, recently asked a local primary school principal to enroll him so that he can gain...
In November 2013, a report, known as “the Simon Nyandu Report” after the nation’s Attorney General, was completed but never officially released. The DRC government attempted to suppress it, but it was leaked. The investigators concluded 11 companies...
Did you know your tax dollars are subsidizing corrupt bureaucrats in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)? Instead of subsidizing millions of dollars in theft, fraud and unpaid taxes, the US should support civil society which is demanding transparency and good...
As the country’s chief financial officer warns Congress that the U-S Treasury will shortly run out of money to pay the nation’s bills, the United States Treasury is preparing to send millions to the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),...
On December 4th, 2013, families, teachers and students of Fooothills School of Sciences and Arts sent a letter to President Barak Obama. They urged him to personally call presidents Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Paul Kagame of Rwanda and encourage them to be partners...
On November 21, the Great Lakes Forum held a briefing at John Hopkins University in Washington DC featuring US Special Envoy to Africa’s Great Lakes Region and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Senator Russ Feingold. Two Congolese asked Senator...
Read it in English Dans l’Est de la République Démocratique du Congo (RDC), les habitants de plusieurs villages qui étaient en liesse au début du mois de Novembre pour célébrer la victoire des troupes gouvernementales sur les milices du M23 sont en train de...
