New Report: Uneasy Alliance in Eastern Congo
The human cost of an ongoing military offensive against Rwandan rebels in eastern Congo outweighs its benefits. Although Operation Kimia II – a joint offensive by the Congolese army and United Nations peacekeepers – has led to gains in the fight against the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, or FDLR, efforts to protect civilians during this offensive have been woefully inadequate ...
Sudan Advocacy Groups React to General Gration’s Statements to The Washington Post
On the eve of the Principals Meeting to review the Obama Administration’s Sudan Policy, The Washington Post has published a devastating portrait of the U.S. Special Envoy for Sudan, Major General Scott Gration ...
Top Obama Advisors to Meet on Sudan Policy Next Week
The long-awaited meeting between President Obama and his top advisors to finalize the U.S. policy on Sudan is slated to take place on Tuesday, Sept. 29 ...
Save Darfur Coalition, Enough & Genocide Intervention Network Respond to Obama’s Speech to the UN General Assembly
During President Obama’s address before the United Nations General Assembly, he made the following comments regarding the situation in Darfur ...
Never Again – or Never Remember?
I was standing next to my Burundian friend Parfait looking down at old flowers and messages left in memoriam. We were at Kibimba Memorial site, roughly an hour and a half east of Bujumbura. In Kibimba, on October 21, 1993, over a hundred Tutsi students and teachers were rounded up and taken to a gas station where they were burned alive by Hutu civilians, angered over the assassination of president Melchior Ndadaye—a Hutu—by members of the Tutsi-dominated army just hours earlier. Next to the gas station, a memorial had been erected with the words “Plus Jamais Ca” or “Never Again.” ...
Avoiding Total War in Sudan: The Urgent Need For A Different U.S. Strategy
It is increasingly evident that the ruling National Congress Party is eager to undermine the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Sudan. Left unchecked, the NCP’s behavior will trigger a return to war and make it all the more difficult to resolve the crisis in Darfur ...
RELEASE: Sudan Advocacy Groups, in Letter to Obama, Seek Policy Changes
The Obama Administration has almost completed its policy review on Sudan. There is, however, a major problem with the administration’s emerging policy, notes an open letter to President Obama from a group of Sudan advocacy organizations ...
A Commendable Step: Project Seeks to Map Minerals Supply Chain
Resolve, an NGO working on a supply chain mapping project with the consumer electronics industry, recently provided an update about its investigation into the supply chains for tin, tantalum, and cobalt – two of which are conflict minerals that are helping to fuel violence in eastern Congo ...
Were Darfur Promises for Real?
We have been part of an extraordinary social phenomenon over the past four years surrounding Darfur: the development of a genuine anti-genocide people's movement. It's succeeded in cultivating a number of true champions in the political sphere, led by three former senators: Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Barack Obama. But rather than the kind of tough actions the these top officials had all advocated in their previous jobs and on the campaign trail, President Obama's Sudan envoy instead began to articulate a friendly, incentives-first message that even Sudan's president, an indicted war criminal, publicly welcomed ...
STATEMENT: As U.N. General Downplays Crisis, Enough Project and Sudan Now Allies Stress Urgency For Obama Administration
The Enough Project at the Center for American Progress released the following statements today concerning the remarks of departing UNAMID commander Martin Luther Agwai, who declared, “As of today, I would not say there is a war going on in Darfur." ...
