Jacques Bahati
Three young male technology experts from Uganda developed an app that uses a simple process to collect images and screen ultrasounds that locate any signs of breast cancer. This diagnostic cancer…
After an initiative in Kenya to encourage reforestation, entrepreneur Sarah Traboulsi got inspired and decided to work in order to save her country’s environment. Over 40 years, about 80% of…
EVENT I: Foreign Policy, Security, Democracy and Human Rights WHERE: Room SR-385 in the Russell Senate Office Building DATE & TIME: Thursday, October 24, 2019 from 1:30 – 4:30 pm…
Nine organizations and 103 individuals signed the letter to the Hon. Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa demanding a decisive response to the recurring attacks against foreign nationals living in…
On October 3, 2019, South African Embassy in Washington DC warmly welcomed a delegation from Advocacy Network for Africa (AdNA) comprising of civil society organizations in the Washington Metro Area…
We raise the tone against xenophobia with all our energy and condemn these attacks in the strongest terms possible, as they defeat the spirit and potentialities of pan Africanism. Moreover, this cyclical violence deters developments that includes African Continental Free Trade agreements which protect freedom of movement of the people as well as the right to the security of person as protected under the constitution of South Africa; the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights; and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which South African is signatory to.
A statement issued by Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference (SABC) Justice and Peace Commission on September 12, 2019 denounced the epidemic of violence against women, and “expressed outraged by the…
Pope Francis “urged an estimated 60,000 Mozambicans to continue on the path of post-civil war reconciliation.” According to The Straits Times, “he warned that progress in peace was not a given and that there were fears that ‘past wounds will reopen and reverse the progress already made toward peace’, as in Cabo Delgado”.
A project of the Africa Faith & Justice Network, Funded by Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities And the Dominican Sisters of Peace Authored Authored by Mr. Ntama Bahati, Policy Analyst,…
During his visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) last week, the United Nations’ Secretary General Antonio Guterres said that, “he was looking to the Security Council for the…
The former President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe died this September 6th, 2019 in Singapore at the age of 95. He will be remembered for a lot of things, good and…
Ebony Tyson is a rising senior majoring in Criminal Justice with a minor in Psychology at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, in which she recently interned for a…
Kenya and Somaliland, an autonomous region of Somalia bordered by Ethiopia and Djibouti, are on the verge of diplomatic relations. The Foreign Affairs Ministry of Kenya has dispatched the envoy…
On June 26, 2019, “the National Environment Tribunal (NET) cancelled the license issued by the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) to Amu Power for the construction of the Lamu Coal…
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…
Banana is one of the fruits available every season and widely consumed in many homes in Europe, the United States and Asia. How I wish these bananas could tell the…
In December 2018, thousands of people took to the streets in protests responding to cuts in subsidies for bread. The protests started in a small rural town and spread to…
Kenya and Somalia are currently fighting at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for a specified area of 100,000 square kilometers in the Indian Ocean in which natural resources have…
On June 12, 2019 the Eritrean authorities ordered the seizure of all Catholic Church-managed health centers. As of July 9 2019, the Catholic News Agency reported that as many as…
