There is a consensus among African analysts that one of the continent’s greatest problems is lack of good governance. This article will make the case for presidential terms limits as a path forward to much needed political stability to spur economic development and...
By Melaura Homan-Smith, AFJN Program Coordinator On June 20-27 of this year the African Union met in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, for its 23rd Ordinary Session. The theme for this year, “2014, the Year of Agriculture and Food Security,” indicates that Africa looks to...
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...
By Nicole Ngambwa What sort of crime did Meriam Yehya Ibrahim commit for the Sudanese government in Khartoum to imprison her while pregnant, sentence her to 100 lashes and death by hanging, and in an unexpected twist re-arrest her a day after she was freed? Meriam is...
A young woman from Kenya received an international award for innovation in food security. Charity Mutegi, a 38 year old agricultural scientist from Kenya, was the 2013 winner of the Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application. Mutegi led efforts to develop...
Africa’s greatest political icon, former South African President Madiba Nelson Mandela has joined the ranks of Africa’s ancestors. Madiba Mandela was by all accounts one who believed in the goodness of people and had a strong faith in the goodness of human nature. He...
Posted on December 6, 2013 As the world mourns and readies for the funeral of Nelson Mandela, the greatest tribute you can pay the former South African President would be to respect the presidential term you were originally elected to serve under the constitution of...
By Jacques Bahati On July 18, 2013 I arrived in Mundemba, a village in Southwest Cameroon, with a team from Joining Hands (a project of the Presbyterian Church USA) and a team from the Yaoundé-based Cameroonian organization, Network to Fight Against Hunger (RELUFA)....
Blessed be God, who has guided us in our ministry of justice for our African sisters and brothers. From the beginning of Creation, we see God at work, fashioning, decorating, and bringing order into a chaotic universe. The Creator God commands us to continue...
