Focus Campaigns
Catholic Women Religious have shown themselves as formidable and credible agents of social change in Africa by initiating, running, and funding numerous social service programs where governments have failed. How…
On November 29, 2016, the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission held a hearing headlined “Democracy and Human Rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.” This hearing was focused for…
From November 22-27, 2016, 86 sisters from about 25 Catholic women religious congregations gathered in Nigeria’s Capital City, Abuja for a training on social analysis and advocacy to enable them…
AFJN is one of many organizations which signed on a letter to Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Ambassador Linda Thomas-GreenField regarding the role of US Embassy officials in…
To harness African sisters’ enormous potential to work for a more just society and to engage in action for justice requires rallying their political will in this direction.
The governance of Africa’s second largest country, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), is in a political crisis because the work of organizing elections within the constitutional timeframe was…
Rev. Aniedi Okure, OP, Executive Director of the Africa Faith & Justice Network gave remarks at the Ghana Catholic Bishops Conference plenary 2016 on the theme “Reconciliation with God, Humanity…
Opposition and civil society groups which declined to attend the dialogue or boycotted the forum made a very bad political calculation.
Bishops and organisations are joining forces to combat land grabbing…
Part of our approach in fighting against land grabbing in Ghana has been to reach out to traditional leaders who then summon people in their jurisdictions to attend awareness town…
Bahati Jacques, AFJN Policy Analyst on WPFW’s Africa Now program to discuss Land Grab in Africa and Cameroon in general.
According to the World Health Organization, in 2014 an estimated 140,000 children worldwide died from tuberculosis (TB), and nearly one million children contract the infectious disease per year. Cases of…
Tell a friend to tell a friend that “Backroom Bullying the Role of The US Government in the Herakles Farms’ Land Grabbing in Cameroon” is a must read. This report…
From September 13-15, 2016 at St. Gasper Conference Centre Dodoma Rev. Aniedi Okure, AFJN Executive Director spoke to a gathering of 82 leaders representing faith based organizations, civil society group,…
UN policies must benefit Africa
After I attended the “National Conference on Just Governance: The Nigerian Biosafety Act and GMOs – Implications for Nigerians and Africa” organized by AFJN in collaboration with other Nigerian NGOs…
The recent government clashes with peaceful and unarmed protesters in Ethiopia, where security forces have killed, jailed, detained, tortured, restricted access to information and kidnapped people from their homes and…
Unmasking Land Grabbing In Ghana; Restoring Livelihoods; Paving Way for Sustainable Development Goals (Download the PDF file here) With all protocol observed, I begin by thanking the organizers of this…
ABSTRACT (Full report here) ‘Our land is sacred, our land is our life, our land is not for sale. God forbid that we betray this trust and turn Africa land…
The National Catholic Secretariat, Accra, Ghana- A National Forum on Land Grabbing is taking place in Accra, Ghana from August 23- 24, 2016 on the theme: Unmasking Land Grabbing in Ghana; Restoring Livelihoods;…
