Missionaries of Africa

Jane in Kenya says it’s time to #EventItUp (from OXFAM)

Posted on 01/02/201706/02/2017 by admin

While millions of people in Kenya struggle to get by, the richest man in the country is worth more than $700 million. Join Jane and demand an economy that works for everyone, not just the few.

https://www.facebook.com/oxfamGB/videos/10154026528541396/

International Day of Prayer and Awareness against Human Trafficking

Posted on 01/02/201706/02/2017 by admin

Next Tuesday, the 8th February, we celebrate la fête de Sainte Bakhita, the patron saint of the trafficked persons. At this occasion is celebrated the International Day of Prayer and Awareness against Human Trafficking.

To organise a Vigil of Prayer at that occasion, please find material here :

And for more information, or some other languages, visit http://preghieracontrotratta.org/?lang=en

Intentions of the Pope

Posted on 01/02/201726/01/2017 by admin

FEBRUARY : Comfort for the Afflicted.

That all those who are afflicted, especially the poor, refugees, and marginalized, may find welcome and comfort in our communities. Continue reading “Intentions of the Pope”

Malaria treatment fails in four patients in the UK

Posted on 31/01/201706/02/2017 by admin

A key malaria treatment has failed for the first time in patients being treated in the UK, doctors say. The drug combination was unable to cure four patients, who had all visited Africa, in early signs the parasite is evolving resistance. A team at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine said it was too early to panic. But it warned things could suddenly get worse and demanded an urgent appraisal of drug-resistance levels in Africa.

Continue reading on bbc.co.uk

Sister Margarete Schöffler (Ingberta), R.I.P.

Posted on 31/01/201722/07/2018 by philippe

The Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa
invite you to share in their hope and to pray for

Sister Margarete Schöffler (Ingberta)

from the Diocese of Freiburg,
who has entered into eternal LIFE
on the 30th January 2017 at Trier in Germany.
She was 90 years old of which 67 years
of religious missionary life in Algeria and Germany.

Eat local food!

Posted on 31/01/201731/01/2017 by admin

A journalist friend sent me two days ago information from the AIB (Information Agency of Burkina Faso). This is how I learned that “the government of Burkina Faso is ordering public services to prioritize local food products”.

Particularities of the ECOWAS–EU Economic Partnership Agreement

Posted on 31/01/201711/02/2017 by admin

The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the West African region and the European Union (EU) has its legal framework in Cotonou Agreement (2000) to make it compatible with the guidelines given by the World Trade Organization (WTO). The WTO sought to standardize trade agreements at the global level and called for the repeal of any kind of unilateral preferences. Continue reading “Particularities of the ECOWAS–EU Economic Partnership Agreement”

The Impacts of Large Scale Farming in Tanzania

Posted on 31/01/2017 by admin

Land grabbing has become a recurring phenomenon in Africa but the situation in Tanzania is a disaster; from the northern part of the country where about 40,000 of the Maasai tribe were said to have been evicted from their ancestral land so that the Dubai Royal family can hunt, to the south where the SAGCOT program (Southern Agricultural Corridors of Tanzania) of G8/NEW Alliance has driven thousands of families into penury. In December 2015, the AEFJN Secretariat took a fact-finding mission to Tanzania. Some of the journeys took as long as 17 hours but it gave the staff good first-hand experience of the disaster of land grabbing in Tanzania. This documentary studies just the tip of the iceberg of land grabbing in Africa.

Looking at the Other Side of the Story in 2017

Posted on 31/01/2017 by admin

There is a human tendency to look for solutions to problems in a manner that draws attention but never solves the problems. It is a deliberate scheme to deny the truth. Truth unsettles us because it challenges our illusions, the falsely-founded privileges we cling to and the mental constructs that serve our selfish ends. Unfortunately, the shadows of repressed truth never sleep. Can Africa tell her story? Yes, of course! But that is made very difficult by the current economic configurations of the world and the ingrained but selfish desire of ‘powerful nations’ and conglomerates to perpetuate the status quo. How would a man under the rubble of fallen house get up to fight the men who designed and built the house with substandard material in order to make more profit? It is not so much the story of the man under the rubble of a fallen house as that of the man who compromised the standards.

Against tax evasion in Malawi

Posted on 31/01/201701/02/2017 by admin

Tax evasion has very serious consequences in Malawi as in many other developing countries: lack of access to drinking water, privatization of health clinics and hospitals, closure of several schools… Stella is a young Activist of the AEFJN network. Continue reading “Against tax evasion in Malawi”