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On January 28, two days before meeting her US counterpart Secretary of State John Kerry, Margot Wallstrom, Foreign Minister of Sweden, met with a delegation from the Enough Project and the Africa Faith & Justice Network to discuss responsible mineral trade as it...
Three days before the Paris attack which targeted the satirical news magazine Charlie Hebdo on January 7, 2015, Boko Haram, an Islamist group massacred people in Baga, a town in northeastern Nigeria. The exact number of people killed is not known yet, but the Nigerian...
Edited by Rita Murphy, story distributed by AllAfrica.com A Liberian newspaper, Daily Observer, has singled out Dr. Anne Deborah Atai-Omoruto, an Ugandan doctor, as one of 2014's persons of the year. This is in recognition of her efforts in battling Ebola in the...
The citizens of Burkina Faso have clearly demonstrated to their fellow Africans that “when spider webs unite they can tie up a lion”. Their actions cast light on the urgings of African bishops’ 2013 pastoral letter on “Governance, the Common Good and Democratic...
"The Extractive Industries Working Group is a Washington, D.C. based coalition of faith, human rights, and environmental organizations concerned about the negative impact of extractive industries on Creation which includes both the human and natural world." AFJN has...
There is an African proverb which says: “The ear is never too old to learn.” In eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mr. Marcel Mugoyi, a long time local chief of several villages, recently asked a local primary school principal to enroll him so that he can gain...
Watch here. Host Shaka Ssali and his guests discuss Martin Luther King Jr’s. commitment to nonviolent action and explore whether his reasoning is still the best option to challenge racial injustice. Guests: Kadiatou Diallo, Mother of Amadou Diallo¸ Founder &...
Edited by Rita Murphy, from the Tanzania Daily News The Maasai have lost so much of their land, they cannot afford to lose any more, according to Survival International. President Jakaya Kikwete has pledged never to evict the Maasai people after an international...
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201409181471.html Edited by Rita Murphy. Photo: I. Kaledzi/DW Winifred Selby, a 19 year old social entrepreneur from Ghana, founded Ghana Bamboo Bikes in 2009 and it has become a huge success. She decided she wanted to found her...