Meet Our New Ambassadors!
An activist recognized by the Obama White House as a “champion of change” and a celebrated children’s author and change-maker have become the latest standard-bearers of Africans Rising for Justice, Peace and Dignity.
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African Peoples to Europe: Don’t Hijack Our Renewable Energy!
The AREI was launched in 2015 in Paris during COP21 as an African-led initiative with the goal of providing at least 10 GW of new renewable energy to Africa’s peoples by 2020,
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Africans Rising Appoints New Coordinator
Muhammed Lamin Saidykhan, a 32-year- old activist from The Gambia with a background in youth development, was appointed Coordinator of Africans Rising for Justice, Peace and Dignity, taking over the reigns from global human rights and environmental justice activist and launch director, Kumi Naidoo, following an Africa-wide search.
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Africa’s youth dividend – a promise deferred?
Africa has the most youthful population in the world, with more than 20% of the continent’s 1.2 billion Africans aged between 15 and 24.
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Ahmed Kathrada: Advancing A Legacy of Activism, Unity and Human Rights
Anti-apartheid stalwart Ahmed “Kathy” Kathrada passed away today in Johannesburg at the age of 87 after a lifetime spent leading the fight for the human rights and dignity of Africans.
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Cameroon Fact-Finding Mission Report Statement
The strikes were followed a few weeks later by public protests in the two regions’ main cities, Bamenda and Buea organised by leading civil society organisations in the regions in support of the strikes and against the general “marginalisation and deprivation”
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Cameroon crisis – human rights abuses mount
Security forces shooting dead unarmed protesters, arbitrary arrests, detentions, torture, disappearances, harassment and intimidation are some of the reported human rights abuses that have been continuing for more than four months now in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon.
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Report: Cameroon Mission
In October 2016, associations representing teachers and lawyers in Cameroon’s Anglophone South West and North West regions, embarked on a strike action.
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25May2017 Action Guide
“Fed up with ineffective leaders who aren’t dealing with the crises on the continent, people are coming together to launch a pan-African solidarity movementAfricans are rising
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Advertisement: Launch Team | Support Staff
Africans Rising is a peoples movement committed to a decentralised, citizen-owned future that will build support and solidarity for local struggles, empower local leadership and immerse activists in the grassroots work of building social movements from below and beyond borders.
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