Author: Enough Team

Gold smuggled from eastern Congo’s war zone is now the most lucrative conflict mineral and is ending up at jewelry stores and banks, according to a new investigative report by the Enough Project. The study found that following a 65 percent drop in profits from the conflict minerals tin, tungsten, and tantalum, armed groups have increasingly turned to smuggling the fourth conflict mineral, gold, to generate income that finances mass atrocities in eastern Congo. The armed groups use poorly paid miners, who work in dangerous conditions, including thousands of children as young as eight years old. The study maps out ...

Conflict gold is the greatest generator of revenue for armed groups operating and committing mass atrocities in eastern Congo. This is the six-step process for getting conflict gold from mines in eastern Congo into its final form: jewelry or gold bars for investors ...

When the M23 rebellion broke out, observers were divided over whether the smuggling ring led by wanted warlord Bosco Ntaganda would continue to help fund the rebellion, or would be hampered by the fact that most ex-officers of the National Congress for the Defense of the People, or CNDP, were needed in the bush to join Ntaganda’s mutiny. This Enough Project field dispatch discusses how the scenario played out ...

The result of years of research, Sudan specialist and professor Eric Reeves today published a new eBook entitled Compromising with Evil that serves as a comprehensive archive of the atrocities committed in Sudan over the past five years. In this guest blog post Reeves explains the motivations behind the project ...

This is the first in a series of Policy Briefs focusing on the international community’s extraordinary opportunity to help support peace within Sudan and between the two Sudans ...

Today, the Enough Project issued its first publication in a series of policy briefs focusing on the international community’s extraordinary opportunity to help support peace within Sudan and between the two Sudans. The brief discusses the need for President Mbeki and the African Union to take bold and specific actions to marshal the governments of Sudan and South Sudan closer to a more comprehensive peace ...

A report published by the Enough Project documents severe malnutrition of civilian populations and near-famine conditions in South Kordofan state. This infographic features key statistics from the report's findings ...

The food security and nutrition crisis in South Kordofan, Sudan is rapidly deteriorating. In this report, an international non-governmental organization assesses the situation based on findings from the region from August 5 to August 19, 2012. Along with the publication, the Enough Project has published a short summary of recommendations for policy makers and an infographic on key statistics from the report ...

For nearly a year and a half, the Sudanese government has denied international humanitarian aid organizations access to populations in South Kordofan and Blue Nile states. To address the ongoing crisis, the Enough Project had published a short summary of next steps for policy makers in order to help alleviate the suffering of Sudanese civilians ...

Food security conditions in South Kordofan, Sudan are dramatically declining, and malnutrition among children in the conflict-torn state is on the rise, according to a new report showing findings from the first international rapid food security and nutritional assessment conducted in South Kordofan since 2011 ...