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Bonn Conference 2018
Learn more about the
"End Development Aid"
declaration and sign it
as a supporter.
Cologne Conference 2016
Find out more about
the Cologne Memorandum "No Marshall Plan for Africa".
Bonn Appeal 2008
The development policy
initiative began with this appeal and an extension in March 2009.
The true size of Africa
If the usual distortion in Mercator world maps is removed, the result is a completely different, non-discriminatory picture.
Read the background to why Africa is still depicted too small today, while Europe and America are too large: https://www.geo.de/wissen/mercator-projektion-wie-weltkarten-unser-bild-der-erde-verzerren-30181168.html
Criminal court finds ex-militia chief guilty
(dpa) - A good twenty years after the massacres in Darfur in Sudan, an ex-militia chief has been found guilty by the International Criminal Court. Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman was convicted by the judges in The Hague of 31 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity - including murder, rape and torture. The sentence will be decided at a later date.
Youth unemployment in Nigeria a "time bomb"
Agenzia Fides
It currently stands at 53 percent and is a reason for increasing kidnappings, armed robberies, drug abuse, sectarianism and ritual killings, including human sacrifices.
Archbishop Lucius Ugorji, Chairman of the Nigerian Bishops' Conference