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Global COVID Response: Lessons Learned and Next Steps
The Africa Faith and Justice Network invites you to “Global COVID Response: Lessons Learned and Next Steps” a free, cosponsored online event on Thursday, January 27, 2022 from 11:00 am – 12:30 pm (EST US and Canada). This event will showcase the U.S. grassroots and faith-based organizing around the Global COVID Response Campaign for International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), a financial resource that may particularly help lower-income countrie
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Welcome to Spring Intern Salena Geahwie
AFJN welcomes Salena Geahwie as our 2022 Spring Intern. Salena is a senior at Trinity Washington University, where she is majoring in political science with a minor in English. Salena contributes to the Trinity community through numerous activities such as the black student alliance, poetry slams, and “Herstory”, an oral history class that focuses on the legacy and evolution of Trinity; she conducted interviews of Trinity alumni on their experiences at Trinity.
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Fierce Urgency: Advancing Civil & Human Rights
Ecumenical Advocacy Days 2022
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This we Learned from a Trafficker of Persons from East Africa to the Middle East
A former human trafficker told Africa Faith and Justice Network on December 2, 2021, that his Middle Eastern partners had sent a video showing four men, aided by two dogs, gang-raping a young woman he had trafficked. The image continues to haunt him. He added, “I am not sure if I will ever be forgiven by God for what I did.” Where are the victims from? Besides trafficking compatriots from Uganda, he also facilitated the trafficking of Kenyans, Tanzanians, and Burundians.
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Zambia Association of Sisterhoods (ZAS) Workshop on Advocacy
The workshop’s theme was “Religious Vocation, Justice Ministry and Evangelization” and was held from 12-17th November 2021. They were beautiful sunny days in November 2021 when all roads led to City of Hope Training Center in Makeni – Lusaka. The training on social analysis and advocacy attracted 65 sister participants from 45 Congregations in Zambia. To make our meeting spiced, we had Dominican Friar Fr. Taiwo, who could not resist to join the training.
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Advocacy on Human Trafficking In Uyo, Akwa Ibom State
Africa Faith and Justice Network (AFJN) has taken the challenge of crying out against human trafficking in its recent activity in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. Amidst the insecurity in the country, AFJN members in Nigeria took ten days in July to hold advocacy and awareness programs on human trafficking in order to sensitize the people…
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Corruption No More: Pressured, Fossang’s Catholic Health Care Center Staff all Resign
Corruption grips African societies, economies, and politics. No matter how small, it must not be minimized and must be forcefully confronted, if prosperity is ever to be secured. Countless meetings and endless reports have said little about those taking action against corruption. Being corrupt is ultimately a choice that reveals a lack of integrity. Those who cannot be trusted should never be entrusted with management.
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The Malaria Disease: Has The Most Effective Treatment Been Ignored?
This October the World Health Organization has officially recommended the use of the RTS, S/AS01 Malaria vaccination for children (WHO). This vaccine has been in trial since 2019 and has had more than 2.3million doses administered in Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi. Malaria is a deadly disease that has ravaged sub-Saharan Africa for several lifetimes- According…
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Press Statement: Organizations Tell Congress to Support Anticorruption Measures in Defense Bill
Today, the Africa Faith and Justice Network (AFJN) along with over twenty organizations and individuals including Former US Ambassador Stephen McFarland, sent a letter to the Senate Armed Services Committee calling for support of six anticorruption measures in the Defense Bill.
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Turning Trash Into Cash!
“Lets turn trash into cash!” -Nzambi Matee. A kenyan woman named Nzambi Matee is bringing positive change to Kenyan infrastructure by turning plastic waste into building products with her startup Gjenge Makers. Ms.Matee has expressed that she started the startup after simply being tired of seeing plastic littered on the streets everyday. She decided that…
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Event: Continuing Plunder! Brutal Extraction of Africa’s Resources
The largescale transfer of wealth out of Africa drives much of today’s global affairs, and also explains much of yesterday’s. For four centuries outsiders have been plundering and carting away Africa’s natural resource wealth on an astonishing scale. The webinar will shine a light on key facets of the continuing pillaging of Africa in our time, the 21st century and will highlight how brutal this extraction remains with instigated wars, dangerous poisons, significant human and animal displacement and unsightly filth inflicting destruction on the people as well as on the fauna, flora and water sources of the once-lush environment.
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AFJN: Addressing the Marginalization of the Youth in Nigeria
October 12, 2021 By: Ayo Adeyemi, AFJN Student Intern The turbulent region of Jos is the capital of Nigeria’s Plateau state located in the middle belt of the country. The city has seen a rampant history of bombings, kidnappings, riots, and other such violent activities. The 2001 riot took the lives of as many as…
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AFJN-Nigeria Youth Video for Non-Violence During Jos 2021 Elections
In October, ahead of the 2021 election in Jos, Nigeria, AFJN – Nigeria youth produced and circulated a video calling for nonviolence ahead of the elections. Generally elections in Nigeria are bloody and politician are known to use youth to perpetrate the violence. In the video, the youth ask others not to engage in violent…
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AFJN Welcomes Our Fall Intern: Ayo Adeyemi
Ayo Adeyemi is a first-year undergraduate student at American University. She majors in Business, Language, and Culture with a language specialization in Mandarin Chinese.
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Malawian Man Brings Electricity to His Village
This is the story of Colrerd Nkosi, a young man from Malawi who single handedly brought electricity to his village for the first time, basically free-of-charge for the residents. Yobe Nkosi is a remote village located in northern Malawi where Mr. Nkosi grew up. Gift Mfune, a student told France 24 that in their village…
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Press Release: COVID Defense Act Must Include Accountability Measures
Today, the “COVID Defense Act” was formally introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Representative Mark Pocan. If passed, this act will provide additional resources to ensure global access to vaccines as part of the U.S. national security strategy by rescinding “1.3 percent of total defense spending” and authorizing “the same amount for international COVID vaccine production and distribution.” The Africa Faith and Justice Network (AFJN) calls on Members of Congress to ensure that if passed, the act will also include measures to keep kleptocrats in check through accountability mechanisms.
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AFJN Welcomes, Researcher, Author, Journalist and Consultant, Denis Mpagaze, as an AFJN Senior Fellow
The Africa Faith and Justice Network (AFJN) is excited to have Denis Mpagaze, teacher, researcher, author, journalist, consultant and the voice of the of the voiceless marginalized communities in Tanzania, as our newest AFJN Senior Fellow. Denis has over 12 years of teaching experience at St. Augustine University of Tanzania, a university owned by Tanzania Catholic Bishops. Apart from teaching he manages a community radio station called Radio Jogoo. It is the leading community radio station in Songea and Ruvuma region at-large in reporting issues affecting the marginalized community!
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Video Premiere: World Bank’s Doing Business Report is Busted
On September 16, 2021 the World Bank announced the end of their publication the Doing Business Report (DBR) after a review that was sparked by data irregularities that were found. The Africa Faith and Justice Network’s policy analyst Jacques Bahati’s will discuss the significance of this news on YouTube September 20, 2021 at 2:00 pm ET (US and Canada).
