From 9–11 February 2026, the Economic Justice Network of FOCCISA played an active and visible role at the Alternative Mining Indaba (AMI) 2026 in Cape Town — a radical people-led platform confronting extractive injustice, environmental destruction, land dispossession, and the colonial patterns shaping Africa’s political economy.
Under the theme “Alternative Stories of Mining — United in Solidarity with the Mining-Affected Communities across the Continent,” EJN participated in strategic side events, movement-building dialogues, faith-based engagements, media advocacy, and international solidarity conversations.
EJN also convened a flagship high-level fireside chat in partnership with the Open Society Foundations, bringing together over 100 activists, movement leaders, researchers, theologians, and mining-affected communities from across Africa and the Global South to ask difficult questions: Justice for whom? Development for whose benefit? And who pays the social and environmental price?
EJN’s advocacy and reflections during AMI 2026 gained continental visibility through publications in Mail & Guardian (South Africa) and The Star Kenya, following the thought leadership article “When the United Nations Entered the People’s Indaba.”