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The decision of Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza to run for a third term in 2015 triggered a political crisis and widespread violence in that country, with hundreds of thousands of Burundian refugees fleeing to neighboring Tanzania. Three years later, the...
On August 11, 2018, a presentation on leadership deficits in Africa given by the Africa Faith and Justice Network's Rev. Aniedi Okure, OP was mentioned by Joyce Coronel in his aricle "African priests strengthen U.S. church". The article, published in The Catholic Sun,...
Despite all odds, women in Nigeria are breaking the code in technology. Yesterday, August 9th, five teenage girls from a Catholic Secondary school Regina Pacies in Onitsha Anambra state Nigeria challenged the world of technology and emerge as the gold winners among...
This years 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize announced a Nigerian-German writer Efua Traoré as the regional winner for Africa. The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is the most global literary award, it holds competition for the best piece of unpublished short fiction...
Please mark your calendar for the celebration of Africa Faith & Justice Network's 35 Years of Advocacy, Capacity Building and Education for Transformation. The 35th Anniversary Celebration is scheduled for Friday September 14, 2018 from 10:00 am to 3:30 pm in...
In March 2018, General Thomas D. Waldhauser, Commander of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM), testified in front of the House Armed Services Committee, as he gave command’s annual Posture Statement to Congress. Part of the importance behind military Generals...
A brief account of the major Uganda’s regimes cannot possibly do justice to their impact to on the country today, but in order to understand, one must begin somewhere. However, this short piece is designed to provide an overview into the deep-seated issue of...
In a place where education can already be so scarce, Sub-Saharan Africa cannot afford to discriminate education from willing students for reasons of stigma or outright discrimination. Recently, Burundi has joined a list of countries including Equatorial Guinea,...
President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has recently imposed a new tax on his citizens requiring a 200 Ugandan Shilling payment per day of use of over 50 social media sites including Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp among many other major platforms. As one might...