Learning from other churches Biblical texts There are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. To each is given the...
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....
Distinguishing and Deciding Biblical Texts When evening comes, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red,’and in the morning, ‘Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot...
Dialog: listening – speaking - celebrating Biblical texts These men…are telling you the way to be saved… Acts 16,17… He had been instructed in the way of the Lord ... they refused to believe and publicly maligned the Way... 19,9.23…I persecuted the followers of this...
Biblical texts Let us go somewhere else—to the nearby villages—so I can preach there also. That is why I have come.So he travelled throughout Galilee. Mk 1:38 Paul and his companions travelled throughout the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been kept by the Holy...
Learning from other churches Biblical texts There are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. To each is given the...
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17 February 2022 "Whatever is done for Africa without the African people is not for Africa." A joint declaration of Social Movements and Peasant farmers, Faith-Based Organizations and CSO delivered at the “African People’s Summit” ahead of the 6th EU-Africa Summit,...
