Region (Central Africa)
In March the President of the electoral commission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Mr. Cornielle Nangaa, was in Washington, D.C. to meet with partners and share with…
On March 2, 2016, Africa Faith & Justice Network (AFJN) co-sponsored and participated in the Ghana Integrated Platform for Governance of Land, Water and Seed as part of the launch…
Nairobi Land Grab and Just Governance Conference: Commitment to A Plan Of Action Land grabbing has become a cancer[1] that stands on the way of true development of Africa. It…
Press Release Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) Secretariat The youth in Africa have been called upon to combat the new forms of slavery and colonization on the continent.…
Let’s get some very important things out of the way before diving deep into this story. It is a fact that opinions like this have gotten people killed, imprisoned, or…
In his speach at the African Union on July 28, 2015, President Obama addressed a specific African democracy crisis: the issue of presidential term limits. “I have to also say…
On July 28 in his remarks to the African people at the African Union (AU) headquarters in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia President Obama addressed many issues including corruption and presidential…
Although Burundi is a strong US partner in the fight against terrorism in Somalia, the Obama administration has made known its position in the ongoing Burundian presidential term limit crisis.…
Herakles Farms, a New York based agro-investment firm and its subsidiary SG Sustainable Oils Cameroon (SGSOC) is once again in the spotlight. On May 29, 2015 it announced that it has abandoned all operations in Mundemba and Toko Subdivisions in the Ndian Province.
We expected that the ruling of the Constitutional Court was going to help improve the situation by making a decision along the lines of the truth that had been expressed…
On May 13 2015, some members of the Burundian army, led by the former Chief of Staff General Godefroid Niyombaré, attempted to overthrow President Pierre Nkurunziza amid unrest over his…
In a letter to members of the Budget Committee in the House and Senate about the proposal to cut all funding for Voice of America’s Central Africa Service Kirundi/Kinyarwanda radio…
The Catholic Task Force for Africa (CTFA) sent letters to President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry urging them to use all diplomatic tools including making personal calls to Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza to encourage him to refrain from running for a third term.
The Second Pastoral Letter of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Burundi ahead of the 2015 Elections
We, the pastors of the Catholic Church of Burundi, aware of the peace agreements and the constitution that stems from the agreements charter (article 8, 96, 103 et 302), listening…
Why should we deal with the rise of the Allied Democratic Forces and National Army for the Liberation of Uganda (ADF-NALU) now? ADF-NALU another extremist Islamic group was originally opposed…
On Friday, February 6th, AFJN’s Policy Analyst Jacques Bahati joined Sasha Lezhnev of the Enough Project and Carly Oboth from Global Witness on Capitol Hill to brief staffers from the…
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…
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…
Read the story of Father Bernard Kenvi’s intervention to save Muslims despite threats to his life. “I thirst for peace in CAR,” he says. “I want to see people able…
The weekend of Sunday, September 7, 2014 saw abominable acts in Burundi as three Italian Catholic nuns, members of the Xaverian Missionary Sisters of Mary were killed in cold blood.…
