Sudan Minister Talks About Resilience While Denying Access to Needy in South Kordofan
Today, Sudan’s Interior Minister Ibrahim Mahmoud Hamad takes the platform to speak on “Strengthening the Resilience of Communities” at the International Peace Institute in New York. In recent weeks, Hamad has himself challenged the resilience of the Sudanese people by supervising the government’s brutal repression of peaceful demonstrators, activists, press, and civil society organizations. Although hundreds were killed in the streets and at least a thousand remain detained by state security, Hamad, whose government shut down the internet for almost a day, still publicly claims that the grisly photos leaking out on social media are being recycled from the Egyptian ...
Aid as a Weapon of War in Sudan
Life-saving humanitarian activity has been held hostage to politics, argues a new Enough Project policy brief ...
Translating Our Reports and Reaching Out to New Audiences
We're excited to announce that the Enough Project the release of an Arabic language translation of our report, “Economics of Ethnic Cleansing in Darfur” ...
ThinkProgress: 7 Things You Need to Know About #SudanRevolts
In the last week, thousands of Sudanese have taken to the streets to call for a fundamental change in the way their country is governed ...
7 Things You Need to Know About South Sudan’s Government Crisis
On July 23, South Sudan's President Salva Kiir issued a decree dismissing his longtime vice president, Dr. Riek Machar, along with all the ministers and deputy ministers in his cabinet ...
Policy Brief: The AUHIP Mandate Renewal, An Opportunity to Revitalize Efforts on Sudan
The mandate of the African Union High-Level Implementation Panel for Sudan and South Sudan, or AUHIP,expires on July 30, 2013. The renewal process and the panel’s forthcoming “final” report—surveying its work from October 2009 to the present day—present a unique opportunity to think about the future of this long struggle for peace ...
Enough Project Applauds President’s Promotions of Susan Rice and Samantha Power
Today, President Obama announced that two dynamic women, Samantha Power and Susan Rice, will be moving up the ranks of the government’s foreign policy establishment ...
The Dark Side of Darfur’s Gold Rush
Darfur is suffering its worst humanitarian crisis in years. Since the beginning of 2013, over 200,000 people have been displaced by what the government of Sudan dismisses as “inter-communal” violence. Ten years after the first reports of genocide trickled out of Darfur, an eerie echo of the past is sweeping across the region. The government of Sudan would like the world to believe that Darfur is plagued by intractable inter-tribal hatreds that inevitably lead to violent destabilizing conflict. But in a new report, “Darfur's Gold Rush: State-Sponsored Atrocities 10 Years After the Genocide,” Enough Project Senior Advisor Omer Ismail and ...
Crisis Brewing in Yida Refugee Camp on the Two Sudans’ Shared Border
The U.N. reports that every day approximately 338 refugees cross from South Kordofan, Sudan, into newly independent South Sudan. Yida refugee camp now hosts more than 70,000 Sudanese who are fleeing atrocities and starvation warfare in their home country. However, the U.N.'s refugee agency maintains that Yida, which lies mere kilometers from the international border between the two Sudans, is an unsuitable location for an “official” refugee camp. Notwithstanding the fact that the camp has been hosting refugees for almost 20 months, the U.N. classifies the camp as a "transit" facility. The reality on the ground tells a very different ...
Leverage: The Missing Ingredient in the Peace Process in the Congo
Right now, only the groups who can either buy or bully their way into the discussion are participating in peace talks for eastern Congo. In a policy brief released today, the Enough Project's Aaron Hall and I identify incentives and coercive economic and diplomatic tools that can be used to bring the necessary parties to the negotiation table in a mindset where they are willing to make the difficult decisions necessary to forge a lasting peace ...
