The first SIAT regional strategic meeting organized by Our Land is Our Life platform took place in 2009 in Côte d’Ivoire. The outcome was a set of national, sub-regional, regional and international strategies to combat the menace of the TNC in West Africa...
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 role of TNCs in Africa continues to be of vital importance for the economic development of the continent in terms of generating wealth, developing technologies, and creating jobs for new generations. But TNCs have a contradictory role because, on the one hand,...
The purpose of private companies is to develop activities that report on economic benefits to their shareholders or owners. Few private companies, apart from seeking economic performance, have in their statutes an altruistic purpose that seeks the integral development...
Mozambique has returned to the news of the international media due to the humanitarian catastrophe ravaging the north of the country. Since the conflict broke out in 2017, violence in the region has caused a humanitarian crisis with almost 700,000 displaced people and...
At the beginning of June 2021, the Coalition Against Hunger[1] (CCF) and Mrs. MeryameKitir, the Belgian Minister of Development Cooperation, met to exchange views on agroecology and the upcoming United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS). This meeting took place in...
Global Context As in many countries, land in Cameroon is at the heart of major development issues. This leads the government to make large land concessions to large foreign and local investors. These concessions are often made at the expense of the population....
In Cameroon, land grabbing remains a concern. Through an administrative act, the State government converted lands belonging to 26 villages in the Southern region to its private control and then transferred same to two companies: 26,000ha to Neo Industry and 30,700ha...
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....
The question of equality in the EU-Africa partnership was the subject matter in a recent event organized by Portuguese CSOs on the occasion of her presidency of the European Union (EU). The scene of the debate presents a demand for a shift from technocratic paradigm...
AEFJN stands out as a principal actor in the Our Land is Our Life platform promoting collaborative multi-level advocacy between Faith and non-Faith based actors in Africa in favour of the UN treaty on Trans-national corporations (TNCs). Our conviction is that having a...
The annual AEFJN antenna meeting was held virtually on the 8th of May 2021. Even though we would have wished an in-person presence meeting; the benefit of having it online was that it enabled African antennae to participate. We had representation from France, Kenya,...
The first SIAT regional strategic meeting organized by Our Land is Our Life platform took place in 2009 in Côte d’Ivoire. The outcome was a set of national, sub-regional, regional and international strategies to combat the menace of the TNC in West Africa...
I live in Kinshasa, the capital of DR Congo, where I work for Afriquespoir magazine, edited by the Comboni missionaries. I visited the East of the country in December and January. I was determined to travel 500 km by road, from Goma to Bunia (Ituri), to see things for...
In 2015, AEFJN co-founded Our Land is Our Life platform following the African Continental Land and Just Governance conference in Limuru, Kenya. She co-organised it with SECAM, AFJN CIDSE and several other Church actors with several Civil Society actors’ participation....
