Author: Enough Team

At the hearing this morning, Senator Corker (R-TN), who recently made a trip out to Sudan, pointed out something that has been obvious for a long time, that UNAMID has “an incredibly weak mandate.” He made the case that it is “a no-brainer” to change the mandate, and that in many cases the U.N. force has to go through so many procedural hoops that they can do little more than “wave at” different armed actors on the ground. Special Envoy Gration agreed the mandate was insufficient and argued that over time the force would need more aerial assets, new command ...

Update on the Senate hearings. Some tough questions for the Special Envoy from Senator Feingold -- who obviously shares the concern that the Special Envoy’s approach has been heavy on incentives and light on pressure. Feingold pushed Gration to make clear that the administration is considering punitive measures as well as incentives, given Khartoum’s long history of ‘foot dragging.’ While Gration was obviously reluctant to discuss such issues in open session, he did indicate that the administration was indeed considering punitive measures if Khartoum does not play ball. The bottom line: Gration agreed to brief Feingold on the punitive measures ...

The next 18 months represent a critical time for the people of Sudan, and release of the Obama administration’s policy review on Sudan is both crucial and overdue. To continue reading, click here ...

Exciting morning on the Hill, to be followed up by an impressive panel of Sudan experts this afternoon. The House Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health, chaired by Congressman Donald Payne (D-NJ), has called a hearing on “Sudan: U.S. Policy and Implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.” Pagan Amum, the Secretary General of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, the party leading the Government of South Sudan, will open the hearing by briefing the subcommittee. Following his remarks, Ambassador Richard Williamson will be back to testify, drawing on his experience as the previous U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan, alongside Enough’s Co-founder ...

We’re heading up to Capitol Hill this morning for the House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing on “New Challenges for International Peacekeeping Operations,” chaired by Congressman Howard Berman (D-CA). Panel I begins at 10a.m. and will feature U.N. Ambassador Susan E. Rice. Following her testimony, the Committee will hear from Special Advisor to the U.N. Secretary-General Edward C. Luck on Panel II. The witnesses for Panel III include: Richard S. Williamson Partner, Winston & Strawn, LLP Former Special Envoy to Sudan and Ambassador to The U.N. Commission on Human Rights Erin A. Weir Peacekeeping Advocate, Refugees International Brett D. Schaefer ...

John Prendergast, Co-founder of the Enough Project, testified before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa today at a hearing, Sudan, U.S. Policy and Implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement ...

For Immediate Release July 29, 2009 Contact Eileen White Read, 202.741.6376 [email protected] ADVISORY: Enough Project Press Kit On Congo and Somalia WASHINGTON, D.C. – The team at Enough, the anti-genocide project at the Center for American progress, has produced an electronic press briefing book for the media covering Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s visit to Africa next week. The briefing book covers two of the countries in which the Enough Project’s policy team specializes, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Somalia. Enough has also included information on Sudan and Uganda, two other parts of Africa in crisis. The book ...

For Immediate Release July 29, 2009 Contact Eileen White Read, 202.741.6376 [email protected] ADVISORY: Enough Project Press Kit On Congo and Somalia WASHINGTON, D.C. – The team at Enough, the anti-genocide project at the Center for American progress, has produced an electronic press briefing book for the media covering Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s visit to Africa next week. The briefing book covers two of the countries in which the Enough Project’s policy team specializes, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Somalia. Enough has also included information on Sudan and Uganda, two other parts of Africa in crisis. The book ...

In Chad, a precarious political and humanitarian crisis just over the border from Darfur remains tenuous, threatening to derail any diplomatic progress that might be made inside Sudan. As our latest strategy paper – Chad's Domestic Crisis: The Achilles Heel for Peacemaking in Darfur – discusses, challenges in Chad routinely take a backburner to the drama inside Sudan’s borders, even though they play a significant role in the long-term stability of the region. Chad, the country just west of Sudan, currently hosts 250,000 Darfuri refugees, some of whom fled over the border from Darfur more than six years ago. Enough ...

Are you a parent? Imagine if you lived in a place where, when you sent your children out the door to go to school in the morning, you knew that they would not be safe. Where you would have to worry about your government actively targeting your family, where you might not have clean water to drink or food to eat, and where there would be no one to turn to if you or your daughter were raped. This is the reality for millions of people from Darfur who have been forced from their homes and into camps, where life ...