January 2012

Top U.N. Official in South Sudan Defends Peacekeepers’ Response to Jonglei Crisis

Posted by Laura Heaton on Jan 31, 2012

Did the U.N. mission in South Sudan muster all its resources to protect civilians caught up in violence in restive Jonglei state? Certainly some media reports have suggested that the civilian deaths in the midst of ongoing clashes between the Murle and the Lou Nuer have demonstrated the ineffectiveness of U.N. peacekeeping. Hilde F. Johnson, head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission, or UNMISS, sought to correct this perception and counter the scale of the killing in an oped that appeared on The New York Times website and in The International Herald Tribune. Read More »

Somalia: Colonialism to Independence to Dictatorship, 1840-1976

Posted by Mollie Zapata on Jan 31, 2012

This week's post in the series Enough 101 looks at the history of Somalia. Read More »

Wave of Arrests in Khartoum Targets Non-Violent Student Activists

Posted by Tracy Fehr on Jan 31, 2012

Sudan’s ruling National Congress Party’s grip on power seems to be tightening to the point of suffocation. In the past week, Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services, or NISS, has targeted non-violent, pro-democratic student activists in a wave of arrests and harassment. Read More »

Satellites Capture Battle for Control of Main Refugee Route Out of Sudan

Posted by Mollie Zapata on Jan 30, 2012

A battle over control of the main refugee route from the Nuba Mountains in Sudan into South Sudan raged last week, according to eyewitness reports obtained by the Enough Project. Sources reported that at 5 a.m. local time on January 25, the Sudan People’s Liberation Army-North, or SPLA-N, launched an offensive from the mountains above the town of Toroge toward the Sudan Armed Forces, or SAF, positioned below. Read More »

White House Touches on U.S. Effort to End LRA via @WHLive

Posted by Juliana Stebbins on Jan 30, 2012

These top experts and advisors opened up the @WHLive twitter account for a #WHChat driven by questions and comments from the public. While tweets flowed in with a range of pressing issues, advocacy groups like the Enough Project, Resolve, and Invisible Children as well as concerned activists nation-wide utilized this opportunity to draw attention to the Lord’s Resistance Army, or LRA. Read More »

How I Got Apple To 'Think Differently'

Posted by Enough Team on Jan 30, 2012

Just over a week ago, a group of students and I who are part of the Coalition for a Conflict-Free Duke sent a video message to Tim Cook, Apple CEO and fellow Dukie, imploring him to create a conflict-free product by the end of 2013. Student leader Stefani Jones wrote this blog post that originally appeared on Huffington Post. Read More »

Conflict Minerals Funds Congo President’s Flawed Reelection?

Posted by Fidel Bafilemba on Jan 27, 2012

When Rwanda returned about 90 metric tons of smuggled minerals to Congolese authorities early November last year, many took that as a sign of a growing commitment by the regional powers to fight illicit mineral trade. It went largely unnoticed until now that the returned minerals vanished on the Congolese side Read More »