U.S.-Africa Leaders’ Summit
The following article was published in the July-August 2014 NewsNotes.
Our concern for Africa is shaped by long term relationsips between Maryknoll missioners and the people of Sudan and South Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Namibia. We honor their strength and wisdom and believe that African cultures and traditions often suggest solutions to seemingly intractable local and global problems.
In Africa our Global Concerns work is at times country-specific, focussing, for example, on the slow process toward peace between Sudan and South Sudan, or the genocide in Darfur; the political and economic collapse of Zimbabwe; the introduction of genetically modified seeds or the political situation in Tanzania; efforts to stop corruption in Kenya, among other issues. We also address transnational issues of great concern to all people in Africa: deep and endemic poverty; the HIV and AIDS pandemic; the call for the cancellation of illegitimate and overwhelming debt without conditions that worsen poverty; just trade agreements; the rights of women and children; and environmental degradation.
The following article was published in the July-August 2014 NewsNotes.
The following article includes an update from Fr. Tom Tiscornia, a Maryknoll missioner who serves in Sudan.
Panel will discuss policies that lead to land grabs in Tanzania.
Sr. Mary Reese has served the people of Tanzania for more than 50 years.
Sr. Mary Ellen Manz served as a missioner in East Africa for many years.
Sr. Genie Natividad, MM serves in Tanzania.
The following reflection was written in early April by Br. Bill Firman, an Australian De La Salle brother and friend of Maryknoll who works in Juba.
This article, written by Amadou Sy, was originally published on the Brookings Africa Growth Initiative’s Africa in Focus blog.
The U.S. seems to have two contrasting perspectives on Africa: “Africa Rising” and Africa as “security threat.”
Former lay missioner Marj Humphrey writes about an experience when she worked in Kenya.
The following article appeared in the March-April 2014 NewsNotes.
Kelly Kundrat, an intern with the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, attended the third annual Civil Society Forum on Sudan and South Sudan, held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in January 2014. Following is her report from this gathering.
The following article was published in the March-April 2014 NewsNotes.
Marj Humphrey is a former Maryknoll lay missioner who served in Kenya for many years.
Marie Dennis, co-president of Pax Christi International, is a Maryknoll Affiliate, and served as the director of the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns from 1997-2012.
This report, published in the January-February 2014 NewsNotes, draws heavily on the November 19 testimony to the U.S. House Sub-Committee on Africa by Bishop Nestor-Desire Nongo Aziagbia of Bossangoa Diocese and vice chair of the Central African Catholic Bishops Conference.
The Catholic bishops of Sudan and South Sudan met from January 21-31, 2014 in Juba, and issued this joint pastoral exhortation on their countries’ recent violent conflict.
Sr. Janice McLaughlin spent much of her mission life in Zimbabwe; in 2008 she was elected to a six-year term as president of the Maryknoll Sisters.