Justice Africa
Encyclopedia
Justice Africa is a London
-based non-profit organization founded in 1999 that carries out research and advocacy on various issues relating to Africa
. It has three focus areas: Sudan
, peace and security, and HIV
/AIDS
. Justice Africa lists three co-directors: Alex de Waal
, Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem
and Yohannes Ajawin.
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
-based non-profit organization founded in 1999 that carries out research and advocacy on various issues relating to Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
. It has three focus areas: Sudan
Sudan
Sudan , officially the Republic of the Sudan , is a country in North Africa, sometimes considered part of the Middle East politically. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic to the...
, peace and security, and HIV
HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive...
/AIDS
AIDS
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...
. Justice Africa lists three co-directors: Alex de Waal
Alex de Waal
Alexander William Lowndes de Waal is a British writer and researcher on African issues. He was a fellow of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative at Harvard University, as well as program director at the Social Science Research Council on AIDS in New York City...
, Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem
Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem
Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem was the general secretary of the Pan-African Movement , director of Justice Africa, the Deputy Director of United Nations Millennium Campaign for Africa, as well as a writer for newspapers and journals across Africa....
and Yohannes Ajawin.
External links
- Justice Africa website
- "Head-to-head: Africa's food crisis", BBC NewsBBC NewsBBC News is the department of the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online...
, 2 February 2006