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.
Tens of thousands of Maasai People living in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in northern Tanzania joined a five-day protest in August, forcing President Samia Suluhu Hassan to acknowledge their demands to restore essential social services and the right to vote.
Kenyan Catholic bishops expressed solidarity and support for young people in Kenya who, frustrated by corruption, grinding poverty, and lack of jobs, protested President Ruto’s proposal to raise taxes for making payments on debts to international creditors, and won.
UN warns of dire conditions in Sudan as the war between two generals drags on into its sixteenth month.
Tell Pres. Biden to work for a truce in Sudan and expansion of corridors for humanitarian aid. War in Sudan between two generals now drags on into its sixteenth month,…
Maryknoll Father Ken Thesing tells the story of a catechist who inspired him in mission.
Maryknoll Lay Missioner Gabe Hurrish recollects a small but impactful gift.
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined 25 other organizations in a faith letter to President Biden expressing concern for the dire situation in Sudan and requesting further action.
Joanne Miya, a Maryknoll lay missioner in Tanzania, reflects on the unlikely prophets in our midst.
A highly regarded human rights organization warns that world power intervention may be needed for truce.
Darfur may be on the brink of another genocide and a famine beyond imagination, the UN aid chief Martin Griffiths said on June 30.
Maryknoll Lay Missioner Anna Johnson learns a lesson on the parable of the mustard seed from her home garden in Tanzania.
Sister Antoinette (Nonie) Gutzler, MM, shares the work Maryknoll Missioners in South Sudan as an example of God’s love made visible in our world.
As nations in the Global North rush to transition to carbon-neutral energy, extractive industries exploit countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo to meet the growing mineral demand.
Violence in the eastern DRC provinces of North Kivu and Ituri highlight the precarity of the country’s security due heavily armed rebel groups, foreign intervention, and battle over access to the DRC’s mineral reserves.
The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns supports efforts by the Maasai people of northern Tanzania to protect their ancestral land.
April 15 marked one year of fighting in Sudan between the military and rebel forces, each appearing to be loyal only to power and profit.
Maryknoll Sister Darlene Jacobs sees lessons about unity and mission in the gospel readings.
The Maasai International Solidarity Alliance (MISA) MISA – of which the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns is a member – is an international alliance standing in solidarity with the Maasai of Ngorongoro Conservation Area and Loliondo in northern Tanzania. It brings together faith-based organizations, human rights groups, international aid and development organizations as well as…
