AFJN in the News
Straight Talk Africa – Rev. Aniedi Okure Comments on Pope’s Africa Trip
The pope visit is historic
The Ecologist Features Letter to G7 Against New Alliance Signed by AFJN
As the G7 leaders prepare to meet in Bavaria this weekend, small-scale farmers from around the world call on them to abandon their disastrous plan for the corporate takeover of global agriculture and the extirpation of small-scale farmers everywhere – those who produce most of the world’s food.
NCR Covers AFJN’s Event on Ending Exterme Poverty
With extreme poverty having been cut in half over the last generation — and the Millennium Development Goals target of poverty halving having been achieved five years ahead of the 2015 deadline — veterans of the global war on poverty believe it is possible that extreme poverty can be wiped out in the next 15 years.
Thomas Reese: Is dialogue with Islam possible?
Granted the Islamic State group and the multiple conflicts occurring in the Middle East, is dialogue with Islam possible? This was the question asked by Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, nuncio emeritus to Egypt and former president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue. As a member of the Society of Missionaries of Africa and an Arabic and Islamic scholar, Fitzgerald is especially qualified to discuss this topic, as he did in a March 6 lecture at The Catholic University of America sponsored by the Institute of Policy Research and Catholic Studies and the Africa Faith and Justice Network.
NCR Covers AFJN’s Event on Dialogue with Islam
Granted the Islamic State group and the multiple conflicts occurring in the Middle East, is dialogue with Islam possible?
Straight Talk Africa: AFJN on MLK and Nonviolent Action
Watch here. Host Shaka Ssali and his guests discuss Martin Luther King Jr’s. commitment to nonviolent action…
AFJN’s Work Featured in NCR Article
As mentioned yesterday, last week I went to a briefing at the Africa Faith & Justice Network (AFJN) after the group took two trips to Africa last autumn.
AFJN Publication: “Land Grabbing in Africa: Herakles Farms’ Failed Venture in Brewaniase, Ghana”
AFJN travelled to Brewaniase, a town in Ghana’s Volta Region, to learn more about a potential land grab deal by Herakles Farms, a New York based agribusiness.
AFJN Signer of Open Letter on Conflict Minerals
It is time for another broader push for reform on conflict minerals and natural resource governance in order to complement the Dodd-Frank legislation and deepen related minerals reforms.
AFJN featured in Enough on Conflict Minerals
On October 30, 2014, the Africa Faith and Justice Network was mentioned in the Enough Team’s article…
AFJN publishes report titled “Land Grabbing in Africa: Herakles Farms’ Failed Venture in Brewaniase, Ghana”
On October 1st, 2014, AFJN authors and publishes a report titled “Land Grabbing in Africa: Herakles Farms’ Failed Venture in Brewaniase, Ghana” in the Land Portal Foundation.
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…
AFJN mentioned in Global Witness press release on NGO coalition calling for legislation from EU.
On September 16th, 2016, the Global Witness published a press release titled “Una nueva ley de la UE podría detener el recrudecimiento de los conflictos por el comercio de recursos naturales”.
AFJN quoted in Redress Information and Analysis
The Ethiopian military and paramilitary forces, operating in the country’s Ogaden region, are, it is alleged, carrying out extra-judicial killings and gang rapes; falsely arresting and torturing innocent civilians; land ooting and destroying villages and crops in a systematic attempt to terrify the people.
AFJN’s work on land grabbing mentioned in NCR
“When ants unite their mouths, they can carry an elephant,” says an African proverb.
A Tribute to the Life of AFJN’s First Director, Sjef Donders in independent catholic news
Fr Joseph Donders, widely known as ‘Sjef’, died on 7 March 2013 in hospital in Maastricht (Holland) aged 83.
AFJN’s Rev. Aniedi Okure and Jacques Bahati on NPR’s All things considered on Catholicism in Africa
When Pope Benedict XVI said he was stepping down, he broke a tradition that had been in place since 1415.
Straight Talk Africa Guest Rev. Okure Examine if African Leaders Can Learn from the Pope’s Retirement
African leaders can learn from the Pope resignation says AFJN Executive Director Aniedi Okure in an interview…
AFJN quoted in article in Redress Information & Analysis on Ethiopia and Ogaden people
In the harsh Ogaden region of Ethiopia, impoverished ethnic Somali people are being murdered and tortured, raped, persecuted and displaced by government paramilitary forces.
AFJN Mentioned as a Signer of Letter to Obama in The Guardian on Failed Rwandan Foreign Policy
Eighteen years ago, President Bill Clinton watched passively as the Hutu extremist regime in Rwanda oversaw the murder of hundreds of thousands of Tutsis.
