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Straight Talk Africa Guest Rev. Okure Examine if African Leaders Can Learn from the Pope’s Retirement
African leaders can learn from the Pope resignation says AFJN Executive Director Aniedi Okure in an interview with Straight Talk Africa. To read Rev. Okure’s article “Lessons from Pope Benedict XVI and the Papal Election” on this topic click here.
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AFJN quoted in article in Redress Information & Analysis on Ethiopia and Ogaden people
In the harsh Ogaden region of Ethiopia, impoverished ethnic Somali people are being murdered and tortured, raped, persecuted and displaced by government paramilitary forces.
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President Obama’s Second Term: looking ahead and looking back on his Africa policies
By Bahati Jacques, Policy Analyst. This article was first published in our Oct-Dec 2012 “Around Africa” newsletter What kind of Africa policy will President Barack Obama adopt during his second term? Who will the new key players be in his administration? These questions are debated each time US citizens exercise their democratic right to free…
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Support for African Women Researchers
This article was first published in our Oct-Dec 2012 “Around Africa” newsletter Funders have renewed support for African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD), a program that helps women in Sub-Saharan countries develop leadership and scientific skills. A second grant, spanning five years, was announced in October, and comprised of US$14 million from the…
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Mali: A State in Crisis
By Melaura Homan-Smith, AFJN Program Coordinator This article was first published in our Oct-Dec 2012 “Around Africa” newsletter On Wednesday, December 5th AFJN attended a hearing entitled: “Addressing Developments in Mali: Restoring Democracy and Reclaiming the North” held by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs, and chaired by Chris Coons, a…
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Ghana: Religious Bodies Meet Political Leaders
By Rita Murphy This article was first published in our Oct-Dec 2012 “Around Africa” newsletter The Ghana Conference on Religion and Peace (GCRP) called on stakeholders of the general elections to ensure that peace prevailed during the elections. Most Rev. Joseph Osei-Bonsu, President of the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference and Chairperson of the GCRP, made…
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President Obama asks Rwandan President to permanently ending all support to armed groups in the DRC
Below is the White House Press release about the call President Obama made to President Kagame Source: The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release December 18, 2012 “Readout of the President’s Call with President Kagame President Obama spoke today with President Kagame to discuss the situation in eastern Democratic Republic of the…
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Open letter by 144 NGOs and Civil Society groups to DRC President Kabila
Mr. President, “The bill on the organization, composition, powers and functioning of the High Council of Defense, already passed by both Houses of Parliament, has been waiting to be signed into law by His Excellency the President of the Republic for more than a year, while the Supreme Court in its decree R. Const.179/TSR, declared…
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Update on the diplomatic effort regarding the ongoing crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
In April 2012, a number of Congolese soldiers mutinied after the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) President Joseph Kabila decided to arrest one of the nation’s armed forces generals, Bosco Ntaganda, who is wanted by the International criminal Court (ICC). The incident became an opportunity for Rwandan President Paul Kagame to act out his…
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South SUDAN: Cardinal Warns Against Oil Exploiters
Source: Christian Telegraph Cardinal John Onaiyekan from Nigeria has warned South Sudan against foreign oil exploiters and conmen saying that if used well oil money can be good while it can be bad if it is misappropriated and can be a source of problems, reports CISA. He cautioned that the foreign exploiters normally work in…
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Amnesty International Urges President Ouattara to Approve Côte d’Ivoire’s Ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
Amnesty International Press Release Source: http://www.amnestyusa.org Thursday, December 13, 2012 Contact: Suzanne Trimel, strimel@aiusa.org, 212-633-4150, @strimel (Washington, D.C.) – After a delegation from Amnesty International met Wednesday (Dec. 12), with Guillaume Kigbafori Soro, current president of the National Assembly and former prime minister of Ivory Coast, Frank Jannuzi, Amnesty International deputy executive director and head…
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International Criminal Court (ICC) Trial Chamber II acquits Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui
Source: http://www.icc-cpi.int Press Release : 18/12/2012 Situation: The Democratic Republic of the Congo Case: The Prosecutor v. Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui Today, 18 December 2012, Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court (ICC) acquitted Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui of the charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The decision was taken unanimously by the Chamber composed…
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AFJN Mentioned as a Signer of Letter to Obama in The Guardian on Failed Rwandan Foreign Policy
Eighteen years ago, President Bill Clinton watched passively as the Hutu extremist regime in Rwanda oversaw the murder of hundreds of thousands of Tutsis.
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NGOs letter to President Obama: U.S. quiet diplomacy to address Rwandan involvement in eastern D. R. Congo failed
AFJN is one of the signatories of this letter December 10, 2012 President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear Mr. President: As the situation once again dramatically deteriorates in eastern Congo, the U.S. response to the crisis has patently failed and is out of step with other Western…
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Don’t Let Congress Cut Funding for the Global Fund Initiative
There is good news out of Washington: even with its low approval rating, Congress has been supporting bi-partisan funding to fund the Global Fund Initiative since 2002. With your tax dollars the Initiative has been leading the way in efforts to treat, prevent or cure malaria, tuberculosis (TB) and HIV-AIDS. The number of children dying…
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Congress Hearing on Rwanda’s devastating destabilization of the D.R.Congo
In his testimony, Mr. Steve Hege, Former Coordinator of the United Nations Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) told Congress that: “We found that since the very outset of the M23 rebellion, the Government of Rwanda has provided direct military support to M23, facilitated recruitment, encouraged desertions from the Congolese army, and delivered arms, ammunition, intelligence and political advice to the rebels.”
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AFJN’s Work in Africa Mentioned in Periodista Digital
Plantearse la cuestión de la incidencia política de mujeres cristianas conlleva superar un doble condicionamiento.
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Senate votes to sanction those helping M23 in Eastern Congo
Press Release Source: www.coons.senate.gov Amendment imposing an asset freeze and visa ban on those supporting the M23 added to Defense Authorization bill (Read the full text here) WASHINGTON – The United States Senate unanimously passed an amendment Thursday night imposing sanctions on those providing financial, material, or technological support to the M23 rebel group in the Democratic…
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SECAM to set up Faith, Culture and Development Agenda
AFJN’s Executive Director, Aniedi Okure, OP was one of the presenters at this conference of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) which took place from November 20-24, 2012 Press Release Friday, November 23, 2012 The establishment of an Organ on Faith, Culture and Development has been adopted at a Workshop in…
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Bishop Presidents of National Caritas in Africa Call for respect of the territorial integrity of the DR Congo
Posted on Novmber 22, 2012 “In communion with the Bishops of the Congo who have frequently taken position on this situation, we launch a pressing appeal to the UN, the AU, the EU, the DRC Government and the governments of the other countries involved in some way in this war as well as to multinational…
