Africans’ all-out voice say: “No climate justice without land justice!” In a series of dialogues dubbed the African climate dialogues, ACD stands for “Vox populi Vox Dei” “voice of the people, voice of God.” Africans express coordinated resistance against escalating...
One of the most successful campaigns in the year 2000 led to debt relief for 37 of the world's poorest countries. 20 years later, Africa is once again in a debt crisis, exacerbated by the pandemic. This new debt crisis has become a burning political issue. How did the...
The last Civil Society Dialogue of the EU commission held the 22nd of March provided information about the ongoing negotiations of the existing EU-ESA Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the EU and the so called “ESA-5 – Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, the...
More than 100 Civil society organisations demand a stop to trade talks that will further endanger EU rules on health and the environment and aggravate the climate crisis. A change of course is needed. We have followed the recent talks between the European Commission...
The sixth African Union (AU) - European Union (EU) Summit will be held on 17-18 February 2022 in Brussels. This meeting has been postponed in the last two years due to the situation of COVID'19 in order to be able to hold it in a face-to-face mode that ensures the...
A Legally Binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights (Legally binding Instrument- LBI) is being negotiated at United Nations since 2014. The idea of a treaty of this character is not something that came from the whim and caprice of civil society but from the need to...
The media show us regularly the drama of forced migration. It is characterized by gory images of tragedies such as the migrants at the border of Poland and Belarus, people affected by environmental disasters such as those in the Niger Delta, caravans of migrants...
Present in Africa since the mid-1980s, the Bolloré company has grown into an empire established in 46 countries on the continent, investing in various fields such as railway and transportation of goods; and agricultural plantations. Headed by the French industrialist...
In our previous publications[1] we shared about the unique contribution of women in advancing agroecology as means of achieving sustainable food systems. This present article continues the reflection with a practical experience of a rural community of women in Kenya....
The demand for land and natural resources has significantly accelerated in the last two decades due to the 2008 food price crisis and resulting land speculations. This led to a surge in large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs), often referred to as land grabbing. Since...
A global challenge Only 2% of the African population has been vaccinated against Covid-19 to date. Yet, according to the WHO, this vaccination should progress much faster in low and middle income countries and elsewhere in the world. If not, we will see new waves of...
Inadequate access to quality and affordable medical products in Africa has been a major public health challenge for decades in a majority of the 55 African states. This is partly due to the weakness of National Medicine Regulatory Authorities (NMRAs) - or, in...
Importance of the problem The number of cancer cases[1] in African low- and middle-income countries continues to rise with the relative ageing of the population. In 2018, an estimated 811,000 new cancer cases and 534,000 cancer deaths occurred in sub-Saharan Africa....
Gospel 2. October 2022 Lk 17, 5-10 The faithful servants In many of Jesus' parables, a wealthy owner hands over the management of his household, vineyard or estate to his servants. The owner's expectation is that they will treat his property responsibly and...
Listen to the voice of creation" Gospel 25. September 2022 Luke 16: 19-31 Lazarus and the rich man There is a sick and hungry beggar lying in his misery at the well-guarded gates of a millionaire's villa. Hundreds of people walk past him every day, even the...
Listen to the voice of creation" Gospel 18, September 2022 Luke 16: 1-13 If we think that all of Jesus' parables are pleasant stories about people of integrity, then perhaps today's Gospel will make us think twice. In this story, a manager of a company is...
Africans’ all-out voice say: “No climate justice without land justice!” In a series of dialogues dubbed the African climate dialogues, ACD stands for “Vox populi Vox Dei” “voice of the people, voice of God.” Africans express coordinated resistance against escalating...
”Nigeria is now passing through the darkest chapter of its history,” says the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN). CBCN’s Most Rev Lucius Ugorji made this statement during the opening session of the 2022 Second Plenary of the CBCN, held at the Sacred Heart...
On October 27th the Annual General Meeting of AEFJN took place in Rome, hosted by the Missionaries of Africa. It was well attended, both in presence and from remote via teleconference. It is the largest gathering of the network since the emergency of the COVID...
