Africa Faith and Justice Network (AFJN) Updates

The Enough Project and a coalition of international NGOs call on President Obama to lead the response on the crisis in eastern Congo and to appoint a special Presidential Envoy to support peace...

A lot of attention in Washington these days is focussed on Zaire and the present crisis in the Great Lakes Region. There as been a proliferation of meetings but unfortunately the meetings, instead of...

The personnel of the Catholic Institutes working in the region of ISIRO is well and ready to be evacuated. In Kinshasa the embassies of Portugal, Spain, Italy, Germany and Canada are working for...

The Zairan army posted in the eastern regions of the country is in retreat, pressed by the armies of Uganda and of the Banyamulenge. The disbanded troops are on the rampage and commandeer vehicles,...

JUSTICE AND PEACE COMMISSION NATIONAL CATHOLIC SECRETARIAT Box 3869 Ashmun Street, Monrovia BRIEFING PAPER NOVEMBER 20 - DECEMBER 4, 1996 The Latest Abuja II Accord signed by Liberia's warring...

by the Africa Faith and Justice Network Washington, DC - The situation in Zaire has become more critical and more complicated in the last few months. Fierce fighting has broken out in Masisi, one of...

Washington, DC - Monrovia in the last few weeks has faced what is now known as a "semblance of peace." But war-wearied Liberians want more than a semblance of peace, they want the real thing: lasting...

by the Africa Faith and Justice Network Washington, DC - On April 26, 1996, the UN Security Council voted - 13 to 0 with Russia and China abstaining to impose diplomatic sanctions against the Sudan...

Washington, DC - Because the crisis in Burundi has not degenerated into a full scale massacre such as that in Rwanda in 1994, the gravity of the present crisis has perhaps not yet fully penetrated...