Film featuring Kepha Ngito, a young man involved in Youth Building Bridges for Peace, a CAFOD-funded project run by a youth organisation based in one of Africa’s biggest slums – Kibera, in Nairobi, Kenya.
The project uses street theatre, peace clubs and workshops to help young people living with violence and [...]
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July 1, 2009
Great generation: Peace-building in Kibera
June 19, 2009
Bonn: 100 hours of failed climate politics
In December world leaders have the opportunity to mark the start of the world’s first green revolution – but as the latest stage of talks in Bonn showed, the political conditions for such a transformation are far from being in place to achieve it.
Delegations from all over the world met in Bonn, Germany, during the [...]
June 19, 2009
Opinion: Dambisa Moyo’s book ‘Dead Aid’ reviewed
There seems to be renewed wave of interest in Dambisa Moyo’s book, Dead Aid, and no wonder.
Her thesis is that a trillion dollars of aid to Africa has left the continent worse off than it was 50 years ago and fosters the corruption which, in the popular mind at least, blights the whole of Africa.
This [...]
June 12, 2009
Bonn: EU let down the poorest again
On Tuesday in Luxembourg Europe’s finance ministers met to discuss priorities. CAFOD hoped they would forge a powerful consensus on how the EU would stump up the cash for climate support for developing countries.
Sadly this didn’t happen.
In March EU Heads of State missed an historic opportunity to regain their title as the leading light on [...]
June 11, 2009
Bonn: Fiddling while Earth burns…
Even though I’m far away from the UK in continental Europe, I can’t escape the image of Gordon Brown’s chewed fingernails in all the German papers.
These hideously bitten stumps of cuticle are supposed to illustrate just how stressful a time old Gordon’s having.
And by the look of things, if he really is hanging on by [...]
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