Aid agencies voice concerns over growing tension in Zimbabwe

International development agencies, Progressio, Tearfund, Trócaire, the Foundation for Development and Partnership in Africa (FEPA), and Christian Aid have warned that Zimbabwe is becoming increasingly tense as election results continue to hang in the balance. All...

US writing ‘blank cheques’ for new weapons systems

The Bush administration is writing blank checks for weapons systems that are hundreds of billions of dollars over budget and years behind schedule while cutting funds that help real people at home and abroad, the Friends Committee on National Legislation (Quakers)...

Sudan churches face up to war and peace challenges

Amid ongoing fighting and humanitarian crises in several regions of Sudan, and risks of failure in implementing the 2005 peace agreement that ended two decades of civil war between north and south, the Sudanese people and churches face “tremendous tasks and...