Focus Campaigns
Re: Request that you do rigorous due diligence to ensure your institution’s funds are not invested in land grabbing/ agro-colonialism in Africa.
Dear Chair of Board of Trustees This is an appeal regarding responsible investment and an opportunity for…
To Mitigate the Effects of Climate Change, Ethiopia Strives to Empower Pastoral, Semi-Pastoral Society
More than 80 percent of Ethiopians live in the rural areas of the country and depend on…
House Financial Services Committee Urged to Vote NO on H.R. 4519, a Bill to Repeal the Cardin-Lugar Anti-Corruption Provision
Dear Honorable House Financial Services Committee Members, We are writing to urge you to vote NO on…
ECOWAS and Partners Want Protection of Women’s Rights in Agriculture and Access to Land
According to the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) agriculture accounts for one third of gross domestic…
Urgent Call to Action: If not you, who can help save the Conflict Mineral Law from repeal?
Representative Bill Huizenga (R-MI) has made it one of his legislative priorities to reopen the cash flow…
Land Grab in Francophone Africa: Identifying and Promoting Lasting Endogenous Solutions
A Review of Follow-up Actions After the Limuru Conference Remarks by Aniedi Okure, OP, Executive Director, AFJN,…
“Nobel Prize of Agriculture” – a recognition for pioneering Nigeria’s E-Wallet technology
The World Food Prize is awarded yearly for a specific and exceptionally significant contribution to the production…
Representative Huizenga’s Bill H.R. 4248 – a Safety Threat and a Financial Gift to Rebel Groups in D.R. Congo
Representative Bill Huizenga (R-MI) has made it one of his legislative priorities to reopen the cash flow…
Justice With Charity: Ghanaian Sisters Responding to Violence Against Women and Children
In May 2017, members of the Africa Faith & Justice Network team met with the major superiors…
Rare victory for rainforests as nations vow to stop ‘death by chocolate’
Up to 70% of the world’s cocoa is produced by 2 million farmers in a belt that…
Ghana is rolling out a digital address system to help formalize more of its economy
Mail and delivery is not that straightforward in Ghana, which like many developing countries, lacks a formal…
The biomedical smart jacket that diagnoses pneumonia using Bluetooth
Pneumonia kills half a million children under five in sub-Saharan Africa every year, with the region accounting…
Blind female Ethiopian lawyer wins global award for promoting disability rights
About 10% of the world’s population has a disabilities, of which 80% live in developing countries. The…
Protect Anti-Corruption, Transparency and Peace Law Provisions of Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
In response to President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 13772 on Core Principles for Regulating the United States…
Local women changing Congo from within
The Democratic Republic of Congo has been named the rape capital of the world following studies that…
Kenya’s Maturing Democracy put to test by its Judiciary
An election is a process, not an event.’ This was the bold rationale provided by Chief Justice David Maraga in his brief remarks, after announcing that Kenya’s…
Advocacy Against Defunding 1502 Dodd-Frank, U.S Conflict Mineral Law
On September 14, 2017, as part of H.R.3354, the Make America Secure and Prosperous Appropriations Act, 2018,…
2017 Africa Braintrust
This year’s Africa Braintrust was held on September 22nd as part of the 2017 Congressional Black Caucus….
Parliamentarians Fight to Resist Legalizing Lifetime Presidency in Uganda
The violence which broke out in Uganda’s parliament on September 26, 2017 calls for greater global solidarity…
Guinean teacher builds a dam to power up his entire village
The West African nation of Guinea has significant hydroelectric potential (estimated at 6,000 MW) but, currently, only…
