Rev. Aniedi Okure, OP
One of the leading publishers of travel guidebooks, Rough Guides, recently held an online vote allowing its readers to select their top international destination choices for 2015. According to the…
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…
By Rita Murphy Kenya has stepped up its efforts to transform 40,000 acres of land into a huge wind farm, in a bid to meet growing demand for electricity. The…
Edited by Rita Murphy, story distributed by AllAfrica.com A Liberian newspaper, Daily Observer, has singled out Dr. Anne Deborah Atai-Omoruto, an Ugandan doctor, as one of 2014’s persons of the…
“The Extractive Industries Working Group is a Washington, D.C. based coalition of faith, human rights, and environmental organizations concerned about the negative impact of extractive industries on Creation which includes…
Watch here. Host Shaka Ssali and his guests discuss Martin Luther King Jr’s. commitment to nonviolent action and explore whether his reasoning is still the best option to challenge racial…
Edited by Rita Murphy, from the Tanzania Daily News The Maasai have lost so much of their land, they cannot afford to lose any more, according to Survival International. President…
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201409181471.html Edited by Rita Murphy. Photo: I. Kaledzi/DW Winifred Selby, a 19 year old social entrepreneur from Ghana, founded Ghana Bamboo Bikes in 2009 and it has become a…
In October AFJN held its first Empowerment Project workshop in Accra, Ghana. Read the report. Read more about the background of the Empowerment Project, and the formation of this workshop.…
By AFJN Intern Erika De Leener Climate change is currently a big phenomenon affecting the entire world. If no action is taken to reverse the trend Africa will be most…
Read the story of Father Bernard Kenvi’s intervention to save Muslims despite threats to his life. “I thirst for peace in CAR,” he says. “I want to see people able…
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…
What happened with Herakles Farms in Ghana? How is the community doing now? What is the prognosis for the new owner of the land? Find out by clicking here to…
From October 8-10, 2014, we organized our first pilot workshop on Empowerment and Advocacy for Just Governance in Accra, Ghana. The workshop was organized in partnership with the Archdiocesan Office…
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…
NAKURU COUNTY, Kenya, Sep 22 2014 (IPS) – Just two years ago, Mary Ondolo, a 50-year-old mother of nine from Kenya’s marginalized, hunter-gatherer community the Ogiek, used to live in…
The weekend of Sunday, September 7, 2014 saw abominable acts in Burundi as three Italian Catholic nuns, members of the Xaverian Missionary Sisters of Mary were killed in cold blood.…
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…
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…
As many of our readers know, the second Africa Synod which was celebrated in Rome this past October was not an event, but a process. That process continues and we…
