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Darfur Rebel Faction Joins Peace Process

Darfur Rebel Faction Joins Peace Process
An important Darfur rebel faction has merged with a coalition of rebel groups that signed an agreement in March to enter into peace negotiations with the Sudanese government. The unification presents a step forward to finding peace in a region that has been wracked in chaos and violence for almost a decade ...

Civilians Suffer From Reckless Fighting In Somalia

Civilians Suffer From Reckless Fighting In Somalia
Indiscriminant attacks in Mogadishu by both Islamist insurgents and the African Union-supported Somali government continue to brutalize civilians, warned both the U.N. and an international human rights organization in the past week ...

Representative Ros-Lehtinen Responds to Congo Campaign

Representative Ros-Lehtinen Responds to Congo Campaign
With three days left to go of Enough’s week-long campaign to encourage members of Congress to sign onto the Conflict Minerals Trade Act, the equation for Congo is already beginning to change, thanks to the efforts of activists around the nation ...

Domestic And International Observers React To Sudan Elections

Domestic And International Observers React To Sudan Elections
Domestic and international observers issued their initial statements on Sudan’s elections over the weekend, with general consensus that the elections did not meet international standards ...

5 Best Stories You Might Have Missed This Week

5 Best Stories You Might Have Missed This Week
A weekly round-up of must-read stories, posted every Friday ...

Electoral Violence As Sudan Polls Close

Sudan Election
As five days of intense balloting for hundreds of government seats across 16,000 polling centers came to a close today in Sudan, simmering tensions, a reminder of the tremendous potential for violence that still remains, began to emerge in the largely peaceful exercise ...

New York Times Reports LRA In And Out Of Darfur

New York Times Reports LRA In And Out Of Darfur
A month after the Enough Project confirmed a contingent of the Lord’s Resistance Army, or LRA, had taken refuge in areas of south Darfur, the New York Times’ Jeffrey Gettleman corroborated the report in his piece on the deadly rebel group that came out this weekend ...

Real Time Observations Direct From Sudanese Voters

Real Time Observations Direct From Sudanese Voters
With historic elections underway, a group of Sudanese NGOs has launched an innovative project that will allow Sudan’s voters to add their voices to the international conversation about what’s happening on the ground, during and after this critical voting period ...

The Obama Administration’s Mixed Messages on Sudan’s Elections Continue

On Thursday, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice articulated the many reasons why elections on Sunday will not be free and fair—breaking what has largely been silence from both the administration and the U.N. on these abuses ...

Ugandan Paper Suggests Khartoum-LRA Connections

Ugandan Paper Suggests Khartoum-LRA Connections
Today, the LRA is spread over a wide swathe of eastern Africa, with fighters in northeastern Congo, Central African Republic, and south Sudan continuing to engage in brutal killings and atrocities against civilians. Although unconfirmed, the possibility that the rebel group may be linking arms with Bashir and company again should be investigated by the U.S. and the U.N ...