Tag: Africa

World Refugee Day: A Story to Celebrate

June 20, 2016

25 years ago, Joseph Kebbie was one of the thousands of Liberians who fled to Guinea at the start of the civil war. This war would go on to claim the lives of one out of every 17 people in Liberia. Of the survivors, nearly a million people would seek refuge in the surrounding countries—a quarter of a […]

Earth Day, Christians, and the Mission of God

April 20, 2016

Today’s guest blog is written by Ben Lowe. Until 2015, Ben served as the founding national organizer and spokesperson for Young Evangelicals for Climate Action (YECA). He is ordained and licensed with The Alliance and chairs the Board of the Au Sable Institute of Environmental Studies. Ben is the author of Doing Good Without Giving […]

Jɛgɛ Ɲuman: A True Fish Story

February 22, 2016

This article was originally published on the Alliance website. A fish farm is creating new waves of opportunity for a riverside village. It was a generous fall harvest—a bumper crop of fish. Villagers were gathered on the shores of the Niger River recently to purchase tilapia the Jɛgɛ Ɲuman (“good fish”) fish farm was selling. […]

Hands of Honor: Where Everyone Learns Your Name

February 8, 2016

This article was originally published on the Alliance website. According to the International Labour Organization, sub-Saharan Africa has the world’s highest incidence of child labor (59 million—more than 21 percent of the region’s children). In West Africa hard manual labor is part of daily life. Most city families hire a domestic worker, often a young girl […]

CAMA Backing Flood Relief in Boma, Central Africa

February 1, 2016

Today’s post is adapted from an emergency relief proposal by Dr. Kenzo, President of the Evangelical Community of the Alliance in Congo (CEAC). Boma is a port city of over 500,000 inhabitants in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It lies on the north bank of the Congo River, upstream from Muanda, where the water meets […]