Focus Campaigns
The Africa Faith & Justice Network, TASSC International and Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur Justice & Peace Office Demand Good Governance and Human Rights on U.S.-Africa Policy Agenda
(WASHINGTON, D.C. August 6, 2014) – The Africa Faith & Justice Network (AFJN) and TASSC (Torture Abolition…
African Faith Leaders Unite for the Post-2015 Development Agenda
The year 2015 will mark the official end to the Millennium Development Goals campaign, an initiative launched…
Mumemo Declaration: A New Pentecost for Africa
As many of our readers know, the second Africa Synod which was celebrated in Rome this past…
Congress has yet to believe that Africa’s main problem is not money, but governance
Western aid to Africa has absolutely generated dependency and is one of many methods used to influence…
Letter to Congress: U.S. aid in the event of a coup d’état against a democratically elected government.
Dear Senators and Congresswomen: We are writing with regard to changes proposed to Section 7008 of the…
Archbishop Ncube Arranges Conflict Management Training in Bulawayo
Political and economic turmoil continue to threaten the stability of the whole of Zimbabwe, but Catholics, like…
US Position on Presidential Term Limits in Africa
On July 9, 2014, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, addressed the widespread modification of…
Crisis in South Sudan: an analysis by the Vice Chancellor of the Catholic University in South Sudan
An Interview by Barthelemy Bazemo, AFJN Policy Analyst South Sudan became the world’s youngest nation on July…
Presidential Term Limits and Stability in the Great Lakes Region
There is a consensus among African analysts that one of the continent’s greatest problems is lack of…
African Union Chooses Criminal Immunity Over Agriculture
By Melaura Homan-Smith, AFJN Program Coordinator On June 20-27 of this year the African Union met in…
The Democratic Republic Of Congo Paradox:Time to Think the Unthinkable
In November 2013, a report, known as “the Simon Nyandu Report” after the nation’s Attorney General, was…
Freedom for Sudanese woman who refused to renounce her Christian Faith
What sort of crime did Meriam Yehya Ibrahim commit for the Sudanese government in Khartoum to imprison…
Empowerment Project Update
Originally published in the June-Sept Edition of Around Africa. By Aniedi Okure, OP. On May 19, 2014…
John Kerry went to Africa, now what!
Barthelemy Bazemo Since assuming office in early February 2013, Secretary of State John Kerry made his first…
National Catholic Reporter: AFJN’s Fr. Okure on Kidnapped Nigerian Girls
On May 9, 2014 AFJN Executive Director Fr. Aniedi Okure, OP was quote in Michael Sean Winter’s…
Ethiopian Security Forces: Stop Arresting and Killing Peaceful Demonstrators
News reports from East Africa indicate that Ethiopian Security Forces are using live bullets against unarmed students…
US Foreign Aid: The Power of the Purse to Influence Africa Policy
As the saying goes: put your money where your mouth is. The latest appropriations bill, section 7042…
Kleptocracy: US Won’t Be a Harbor for Stolen Assets
We are encouraged by the US Justice Department announcement, made on March 5, 2014, about the asset…
Sowing Seeds for Justice: The Empowerment Project in Ghana
In May Father Aniedi Okure will travel to Accra, Ghana to help launch the first pilot project…
Sharing in the Grief, Anxiety and Hope of the People An Account of War Conflicts In Leer Mission
“Local Christians were collecting food to feed us. We got four goats and a bull which we…
