Jacques Bahati
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Rebecca Short is a senior sociology major and psychology minor at the Catholic University of America. She was born and raised in a small sea side town outside of Boston…
PDF file with pictures here From November 22 to 26, 2015, an international conference on Land Grab and Just Governance in Africa brought to Limuru, a suburb of Nairobi (Kenya)…
God provides enough land space for all human beings when He tells them to “Increase, multiply and fill the earth” (Gen 1:28). Any use of the land which transgresses the…
On December 29, 2015 Mr. Roch Marc Kabore was sworn in as president of the West African nation of Burkina Faso. The urgency for good governance and self-rule has intensified…
Rev. Aniedi calls for religious dialogue.
A new scramble for Africa akin to the frenzy that followed the Berlin conference of 1885 and the partitioning and colonization of Africa is on; farmlands and minerals are the…
The conference will highlight the state of land grabbing in Africa, cases of resistance across the continent, as well as Church responses and its increasing engagement on issues of land…
Opening Remarks by ANIEDI OKURE, Executive Director, Africa Faith & Justice Network (AFJN), Washington DC Good morning! Thank you all for being here. We know that you are here because…
On October 13, we informed you about our latest victory in the fight against land grabs in Ghana’s Volta region. Today we have another exciting news for you: one more…
AFJN’s Ghana volunteer Task Force on Land Grab Prevention under the leadership of Paramount Chief Tidibo Kowura Odamba II and AFJN office in Washington DC reached out to the Regional…
The pope visit is historic
We stand with the people of Burkina Faso in their effort to establish the rule of law and peaceful democratic process. We strongly condemn the attempted derailment of the democratic…
Press Release Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) Secretariat The youth in Africa have been called upon to combat the new forms of slavery and colonization on the continent.…
Let’s get some very important things out of the way before diving deep into this story. It is a fact that opinions like this have gotten people killed, imprisoned, or…
Some African strongmen who are also America’s allies and receive millions of US aid, have successfully removed the provisions on presidential term limits from their constitutions to enable them to…
In his speach at the African Union on July 28, 2015, President Obama addressed a specific African democracy crisis: the issue of presidential term limits. “I have to also say…
On July 28 in his remarks to the African people at the African Union (AU) headquarters in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia President Obama addressed many issues including corruption and presidential…
On October 14-16, 2015, President Paul Kagame will be a keynote speaker at the 2015 Borlaug Dialogue: Fundamentals of Global Food Security Symposium in Des Moines, Iowa. However, like many…
