AFJN News, Articles, and Information
By Jacques Bahati On July 18, 2013 I arrived in Mundemba, a village in Southwest Cameroon, with a team from Joining Hands (a project of the Presbyterian Church USA) and a team from the Yaoundé-based Cameroonian organization, Network to Fight Against Hunger (RELUFA)....
L'anéantissement du groupe rebelle du M23, n'aurait pas été possible sans les modifications de la politique étrangère opérées par les gouvernements de certains pays qui jadis avaient ignoré les guerres d'agression du Rwanda et de l'Ouganda contre la RDC. Le plus...
By Jacques Bahati The surrender of the rebel group in eastern DRC, M23, would not have been possible without the foreign diplomacy changes made by governments which have previously turned a blind eye to Rwanda and Uganda's proxy wars in and against DRC. Hopefully...
Read it in English Dans l'Est de la République Démocratique du Congo (RDC), les habitants de plusieurs villages qui étaient en liesse au début du mois de Novembre pour célébrer la victoire des troupes gouvernementales sur les milices du M23 sont en train de vivre...
Blessed be God, who has guided us in our ministry of justice for our African sisters and brothers. From the beginning of Creation, we see God at work, fashioning, decorating, and bringing order into a chaotic universe. The Creator God commands us to continue...
Under the leadership of Congresswoman Karen Bass, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's (CBCF) Africa Braintrust held its annual conference on Friday 21, 2013 in Washington DC. This year's conference focused on the 50th Anniversary of Martin Luther King's...
On September 16, 59 civil society organizations from across the globe, among them Africa Faith and Justice Network (AFJN), published a position paper urging the European Union (EU) to pass a more sweeping conflict mineral law. This push for regulatory mechanisms to...
By AFJN Executive Director Aniedi Okure, OP, On February 16, 2013 the Symposium of the Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) issued a pastoral letter titled "Governance, Common Good, and Democratic Transitions in Africa" calling on the Church to be...
By AFJN Executive Director Aniedi Okure, OP On February 16, 2013 the Symposium of the Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) issued a pastoral letter titled "Governance, Common Good, and Democratic Transitions in Africa" calling on the Church to be...