By: Ntama Bahati, Policy Analyst On April 13, 2020, in a press statement, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced that its “Executive Board approved immediate debt service relief to 25 of the IMF’s member countries under the IMF’s revamped Catastrophe...
[Lire en Français] The Coronavirus pandemic has terrorized the world and brought us to a grinding halt. Data from COVID-19 Tracker at Johns Hopkins University indicate that over one million people have been infected worldwide and nearly 65,000 have died from the...
[Read in English] La pandémie de coronavirus a terrorisé le monde et nous a paralysés. Le nombre de cas de Covid-19 dans le monde a dépassé un million, avec un bilan de 64.703 décès, d’après les chiffres de l’université américaine Johns Hopkins. Le nombre...
PORT HARCOURT, 17 January, 2020 / 2:35 AM (ACI Africa).- The brave fight mounted by religious sisters against human traffickers in Nigeria has been a key highlight of the ongoing conference that has brought together religious men and women in the west African...
On January 16, 2020, the strengthening of a coalition network of sisters by the Africa Faith and Justice Network was mentioned by Julia Freidman in a Business Wire/Conrad N. Hilton Foundation press release. The full article “Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Awarded...
Nigeria currently has 13.2 million out-of-school children, according to Nigeria’s education board. Also, child labor has remained an issue throughout the country despite the Child Rights Act that was signed into law by the federal government. In February,...
On December 18, 2019, the Africa Faith and Justice Network’s advocacy for child rights in Nigeria was mentioned by Patrick Egwu in an article titled “Africa Faith and Justice Network advocates for child rights in Nigeria”, published in National...
On October 10, 2019, the Africa Faith and Justice Network Uganda and AFJN executive director, Rev. Aniedi Okure, OP, were mentioned by James Roberts and Ellen Teague in their article “Cardinal blames Hong Kong authorities for violence”, published in The...
On September 12, 2019, the Africa Faith and Justice Network was mentioned by Valentine Iwenwanne in an article published in Global Sisters Report entitled “Nuns try to fight lure of Europe by offering programs for young Nigerians”. Read the full article...
The crisis at the US border with Mexico reveals that migrants are not only coming from Latin America. The number of Africans registered by Mexican authorities tripled over the first four months of 2019. On June 16, 2019, Reporting for the Associated Press, Andrew...
