During this Holiday season, The African News Journal Team would like to thank our readers, patrons, and partners. With your contribution and support, we have remained your number one source for interactive community news, bringing to print that which we most share concern for and promoting community development through our pieces.

Our commitment to keep you informed has let us form partnerships with other news organs around the globe, especially in Africa, so you can also be part of what’s happening in your local communities back home. With the New Year ahead of us, we promise to provide our readership with more indepth and investigative reports on issues that affect our local communities back home, as well as here in the Twin Cities, the US in general and other parts of the World.

Throughout the year, we have seen firsthand and been part of great news stories that impact our community, from the inauguration of the nation’s first African American President to the signing of peace accords and reconciliation measures in Sudan and Liberia respectively. There has also been sad happenings which have seen us not only shed tears, but also join in efforts to restore hope; from the soccer stampede in Ivory Coast during a game to the ruthless takeover of the regime in Benin; from pirates rampaging in the Somalian coasts to the gentle cries in Madagascar.

Setting these happenings aside, the holiday season is time for us to recollect and rethink what measures we take, not just as news junkies, but as a community watchdog, to ensure that every relevant issue is not pushed aside as just another jibe; but that we dig deeper to voice the concerns and issues of the voiceless. As a paper, The African News Journal is committed to tell the untold issues that plague our community and bring into light what others might consider provocative. But wait, isn’t provocative news what we crave to build us as a community?

As we forge forward into a New Year, I call on us all to reflect on the happenings of the past year; focus on how we can build a better community; and most of all that the love of family and friends remains abundant. The African News Journal will continue to pursue news enrichment, and as always; we continue to welcome your participation. Happy Holidays and may the New Year usher you with abundant blessings.

NdzeNtuv Evaristus Tunka-Editor