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AFJN Calls for Human Rights and Fair Elections in Rwanda
In case anyone needed further evidence that President Paul Kagame’s Rwanda is the Pentagon’s proxy, 140 Rwandan police are about to undertake special training before heading to Haiti, as reported in the Rwanda New Times, because, according to Rwandan Police Chief Eric Kayiranga, “Rwanda wants to be involved in promoting peace in other countries” and, if need be, they would send more peacekeepers to other countries.
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What You Can Do to Encourage Just Foreign Relations in Africa
In all aspects of our work, AFJN seeks to foster just and equitable relations between the people of the US and the people of Africa. We believe that the United States, in pursuit of its own legitimate foreign policy interests, should respect the dignity and the capacity of its African partners. Our concerns over the…
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Massive Arrival of “Congolese Refugees “from Rwanda
Source: Congo Actualité n° 102, December 15, 2009, Contact : Rés. PAIX POUR LE CONGO, Strada Cavestro n°16, Loc. Vicomero 43056 San Polo – Torrile (PR), Italie tel-fax : 0521/314263, E-mail : info@muungano.it Huge populations from Rwanda are increasingly found in eastern DRC for nearly 4 months now, in particular in the territories of…
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Rwandan Policy in DRC
This is an excerpt of AFJN’s November 2009 Paper on the RDC (download PDF Vesrion of the paper here) Posted on Feb 12, 2010 While the Rwandan government is pressing hard for the return of the Hutu refugees, it is planning to illegally release more of its citizens, specifically those from the Tutsi tribe, into…
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Climate Change: What About the Displaced?
Already, as a result of climate change, at least 18 islands have been submerged worldwide. These include Lohachara Island in India, Bedford, Kabasgadi and Suparibhanga Island near India. Other islands are at risk of being submerged. They include Bangladesh’s Bhola Island, half of which is permanently flooded, Kutubdia in southeastern Bangladesh with thousands of people…
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Peace and Obama: Reflections of a Concerned Activist
By Allison Burket This first decade of the century was one largely defined by America’s response to 9/11 terrorist attacks. By declaring war on an evasive and loosely bound transnational network of extremists, the Bush administration promised increased security for the American people. Yet, this “we’re at war” way of viewing the rest of the…
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Evaluating Peace and Stability in the RDC and US Policy in the Great Lakes Region
Table of Content I. Objectives 3 II. A Glance into DRC’s Complex Problems 3 II.a. DRC Debt and Vulture Funds· 4 II.b. Lord’s Resistance Army· 5 III….
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Evaluating Peace and Stability in the DRC and the US Policy in the Great Lakes”
The analysis of the crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as described in this paper (click here to dowload the paper in PDF format or click here to read it as a web page) will help you understand better the following: violence in the North and South Kivu, the presence of foreign fighter in eastern…
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Peace and Obama: Reflections of a Concerned Activist
By Allison Burket This first decade of the century was one largely defined by America’s response to 9/11 terrorist attacks. By declaring war on an evasive and loosely bound transnational network of extremists, the Bush administration promised increased security for the American people. Yet, this “we’re at war” way of viewing the rest of the…
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The Second Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops, “the African Reconciliation Project”: The role of Missionary Institutes
Written by Paul Saa-Dade Ennin sma, posted on January 29, 2009A member of the SMA General Council, Paul Saa-Dade Ennin, participates regularly in reflection sessions organised by SEDOS[1] of which he is an active member. As a preparation towards the Second Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops, he shared his thoughts on the…
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Conference of the Catholic Episcopate of the Great Lakes Region Proposes Guidelines for Common Plan for Peace and Reconciliation in the Region
“The reason for coming together was to hold a conference with the goal of looking for ways and means to work together in order to better contribute as Church to peace building and to promote reconciliation in the Great Lakes Region. The theme of the conference was Conference of the Catholic Episcopate of the Great…
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Update on Northern Uganda/LRA Bill
Thanks again to everyone who signed our online petition earlier this year regarding the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act of 2009 (S. 1067, H.R. 2478). You’ll be happy to know that we succeeded in sounding the alarm about the bill’s readiness to encourage unspecified military action against the LRA and its leader,…
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Climate Change Debate in Copenhagen: U.S Fears and Opportunities
In his opening remarks at the November 4th hearing entitled “Copenhagen and Beyond: Is there a Successor to the Kyoto Protocol?”, U.S house committee of international Relations’ Chairman, Congressman Howard Berman underscored what President Obama said in his recent speech at the United Nations in these terms: “…the world can no longer postpone a serious response…
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The Guinea Crisis
Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, the current head of state in Guinea was shot on Thursday, December 3, 2009 by his Camp aid Aboubakar Sidiki Diakite known as Toumba. According to Radio France International, Captain Dadis sustained serious head injuries. His condition is presumed to be serious. He was evacuated to Morocco where he is receiving medical attention….
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AFJN Europe on Corporate responsibility, Arms, Foreign land acquisitions, Agricultural policies and the development and much more
Corporate responsibility http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/11/2009111192747615233.html Thousands of people in Ivory Coast poisoned by toxic waste face being cheated out of $45m in compensation after the money, which was deposited in a bank account in the West African country, was frozen. At the same time, a local figure, claiming to be president of the National Co-ordination of Toxic…
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AFRICOM: When it comes to aid to Mali, paitence isn’t always a virture
By Allison Burket Ariticle originally published in the Nov-Dec 09 edition of Around Africa A recent conference on Capitol Hill, hosted by a think tank called the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (CADS) gave AFJN and other organizations an important insight into the ongoing definition and operation of the new military command for Africa (AFRICOM)….
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Message to the People of God Special Assembly of Bishops for Africa October 2009
PrefaceThe following pages contain the public message of challenge and hope that the Second Special Synod of Catholic Bishops for Africa offer to people of good will. This three week gathering which took place in Rome, Italy from October 4th to October 25th was an opportunity to review the situation both of Church and society in…
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Foreign aid reform: Overdue and in Need of Direction
Late August, President Obama issued a request for an interagency review of all U.S. global development policy, responding to the calls from civil society and members of his own administration. He thus added the “Presidential Study Directive on Global Development Policy” to the growing list of development-related initiatives taking place inside the beltway. In July,…
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Outreach Based on Need not Creed
By Rocco Puopolo s.x., Executive Director Bishop George Biguzzi of the Diocese of Makeni, Sierra Leone, was recently invited to Washington to make a presentation on migration in West Africa to the United States Catholics Conference of Bishops (USCCB) Migration and Refugees Services Department. As one of the West African bishop delegates to the African…
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World Food Day: A Time to Listen
October 16 is World Food Day at the UN, and this year focus is how to achieve food security in times of crisis. This is a timely topic on the heels of last year’s food price crisis, the recent financial crisis, and the ongoing and accelerating climate crisis – this year, the global financial crisis has pushed over 1 billion people into hunger, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s latest annual report. Africa in particular feels the pangs of such a global crisis, where around 30 percent of the total population is estimated to be suffering from chronic hunger and malnutrition.
