Keep up with the latest news from the URI Africa Great Lakes regional newsletter. Peace Day celebrations, environmental conservation projects, and more!
URI Southern Africa Regional Coordinator Karen Barenshe spoke about the "Girls Not Brides" campaign, which is currently launching to increase awareness of the harmful effects of child marriages and encourage efforts nationwide to prevent the practice.
URI-Africa is fostering a working partnership among URI, Unity Earth & ROTOTOM to promote cultural exchange, solidarity, unity in diversity, peace, social justice, human dignity, interfaith harmony, and environmental preservation through the power of music.
Our region in Southern Africa, with its rich diversity and numerous challenges, continues to express its innovation to deliver grassroots community peacebuilding in so many ways.
URI-Africa came to learn with the deepest shock and immense sadness the death of H.E. Mr. Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations and Nobel Peace Laureate.
URI-Africa presented its prestigious Africa Peace Award to Dr. Jane Goodall, Ph.D., DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace, on July 8, 2018.
United Religions Initiative-Africa is delighted with the good news of the end of the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea, and highly commends the signing of the Joint Declaration of Peace and Friendship on 9 July 2018 by the governments of the two countries.
