Author: Amanda Hsiao

Since last week, President of South Sudan Salva Kiir has very publicly extended olive branches to a number of rebel leaders, political opposition, and other armed actors in the South who have the potential to stir up violence and threaten the vote ...
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Three days after the launch of what we here at the Enough Project have fondly dubbed “Clooneypalooza,” activists around the web have already sent an astounding 23,000 letters to President Obama ...
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Robust U.S. diplomacy can help prevent war in Sudan is the message that actor George Clooney and Enough's John Prendergast are taking to the streets of Washington D.C. and to the airwaves in an advocacy blitz that has included meetings with President Obama, members of Congress, and members of the Council on Foreign Relations ...
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The opportunity to prevent a man-made disaster in Sudan is quickly fading, but strong diplomacy can make a difference, warned actor George Clooney in a Today show interview with NBC’s Ann Curry this morning ...
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In an unprecedented show of international will, envoys from the United Nations Security Council touched down for a four-day trip to Sudan to push Sudanese parties toward two peaceful votes on January 9, 2011 and full implementation of the peace agreement that ended the two-decade long North-South civil war ...
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Four days into the Abyei talks taking place in Addis Ababa, little information on the progress of negotiations has leaked, but there are hints that a breakthrough is still a ways off ...
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With less than 100 days until southern Sudanese go to the polls to vote for unity or secession, here's a snapshot of how referendum preparation is coming along ...
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Sudan's ruling National Congress Party has audaciously floated a solution to the Abyei deadlock that abrogates the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, underscoring the ruling party’s lack of intent to follow the peace deal that ended two decades of war ...
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On Friday, South Sudan President Salva Kiir made clear the South’s priorities in the remaining three and a half months before January’s referenda during a speech at the Washington Convention Center ...
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Just 113 days before the South Sudan and Abyei referenda, some progress has been made—but not much, and maybe not enough ...
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