Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : Africa

Feb. 6 issue

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  Photo by Dan Leonard/MCC

  MCC relief reaches Somali refugees who may not be going home any time soon

  AKRON, Pa. — When MCC representative Dan Leonard visited Dollo Ado refugee camp in late December, he was struck by the reality that the 150,000 Somali refugees who found safety and food in Ethiopia were not going home any time soon.

  Somali refugees have been streaming out of their country in large numbers since last summer to escape famine and political instability, commonly attributed to a weak government and the Islamist militant group, al Shabaab, which refuses to allow humanitarian assistance in southern Somalia.

Jan. 16 issue

• Wind, rain damage Congo churches

  Several Mennonite churches and schools in Congo were heavily damaged by a storm that swept through the area Oct. 16.

Jan. 9 issue

• Africans lay foundation for MWC caucus

  KINSHASA, Congo — Church leaders from across Africa shared a sense of isolation and desire for more fellowship in the latest gathering of a five-year process to create a new structure for fellowship and collaboration among Mennonite World Conference member churches in Africa.

Jan. 2 issue

• Canadian leader attends U.N. meeting on climate

  WINNIPEG, Man. — For Mennonite Church Canada executive director Willard Metzger, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa, began with a twist of irony.

Oct. 31, 2011 issue

• Liberian Nobel Prize winner, EMU alumna, is well connected to peace-church tradition

  HARRISONBURG, Va. — Nobel Peace Prize recipient Leymah Gbowee is closely connected with Mennonites and the peace-church tradition.

Oct. 24, 2011 issue

• East Africa drought response expands

  WINNIPEG, Man. — Mennonite Central Committee’s response to the drought and food crisis in East Africa continues to expand, totaling more than $4.6 million through Oct. 6.

Oct. 3, 2011 issue

• Community lost in Zimbabwe, restored at Hesston College

  HESSTON, Kan. — Ron Moyo’s community was torn apart in 1983. A civil war that followed independence from Great Britain in 1979 left many people in his home country of Zimbabwe fleeing for safer environments. Moyo, then a teenager, was left to live alone, wondering daily if he would live to see the next day.

Sept. 19, 2011 issue

• In Congo prison, food for body, spirit

  In the tropical heat of Congo, Adolphine Kabatusuila Tshilumba nourished the dream of feeding others.

Aug. 22, 2011 issue

• MCC expands response to East Africa drought

  WINNIPEG, Man. — Mennonite Central Committee has surpassed its initial target of raising $1 million for the East Africa drought and is now expanding its response to the continuing crisis in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia.

Aug. 1, 2011 issue

• MCC seeks $1 million for East Africa

  AKRON, Pa. — An immediate and extended response to the drought and food crisis in East Africa is essential for limiting the vulnerability of millions looking for enough food to survive, said Bruce Campbell-Janz, director of Mennonite Central Committee’s Africa Department.

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