Author: Enough Team

In February 2010, Sudan is scheduled to hold its first democratic elections in 24 years. This upcoming national election poses a series of thorny questions for the international community ...

In February 2010, Sudan is scheduled to hold its first democratic elections in 24 years. General elections are required by the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, or CPA, which ended a second civil conflict between northern and southern Sudan that lasted two decades, killed 2 million people, and displaced 4 million more. The original premise and promise of elections—democratic transformation, consolidating the peace, and making unity attractive—have been marred by the ruling National Congress Party’s four-year pattern of obstructionism, which has stalled progress on the implementation of the CPA, and sapped good will between North and South. Enough’s latest strategy paper, “Sudan’s ...

The United States and other key actors need to lower their expectations for the upcoming February 2010 national elections in Sudan and develop a multilateral strategy to press the Government of National Unity—the ruling National Congress Party in particular —to enact meaningful reforms regardless of who wins in 2010, revitalize CPA implementation, and establish a framework for talks in Darfur that are consistent with the power-sharing provisions of the CPA ...

Enough’s latest strategy paper, “Sudan’s Election Paradox,” argues that the international community needs to lower its expectations for the election and develop a multilateral strategy to press the Government of National Unity to enact meaningful reforms regardless of who wins in 2010, revitalize CPA implementation, and establish a framework for talks in Darfur that are consistent with the power-sharing provisions of the CPA ...

We recently traveled to Djabal refugee camp in eastern Chad for the Darfur Dream Team’s Sister Schools Program. Djabal is one of two Darfuri refugee camps in southeastern Chad and is only accessible by plane or by unpaved roads. The six-hour commute from Abeche -- the central NGO-hub in the country -- makes Djabal a rare destination for most. We traveled to Djabal in order to develop video profiles of Darfuri students living in the camps. The students we met in Djabal were in primary school levels 3-6, the equivalent of 3rd through 6th grades in the United States. Several ...

A team from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum recently traveled to eastern Congo, where they collected testimonies from survivors of the ongoing conflict. In a powerful recent post on World Is Witness, Michael Graham profiled Joseph, a Congolese teenager who was abducted and enslaved for six months by the Lord’s Resistance Army. Joseph told Michael his story, which is described in this first post of a two-part series. Joseph fiddles with his bright red tie and peers intently out the window of our small prop plane over the landscape of northeastern Congo. The land below has been Joseph’s home for ...

Over the weekend, members of the Enough team joined the Darfur Fast for Life to show solidarity with the people of Darfur and protest the ongoing violence and suffering orchestrated by the Sudanese government. After six years of conflict in Darfur, Sudan now has the largest displaced population in the world by far -- nearly five million inside the country and an estimated 250,000 in neighboring Chad. Since the launch of the Darfur Fast for Life on March 27 by actress and activist Mia Farrow, numerous prominent activists and leaders have joined the thousands of concerned citizens who are part ...

The Enough Project, the Save Darfur Coalition, and the Genocide Intervention Network today issued the following statement in response to President Barack Obama's remarks in Cairo ...

I’m devastated. Today I learned that my dear little Esperance* - the absolutely adorable and most precocious 3-year-old at Panzi hospital – is HIV positive. With a smile that charms all who meet her and a personality that by far out sizes her toddler frame, she now runs to meet me when I arrive. We’ve become good buddies, likely because I indulge her every request for “photo!” and “bombo” (candy). She is truly irresistible. It was a punch in the gut this morning when one of the staff informed me of little Esperance’s status. My entire day was a blur ...

Starting today, the Enough team is joining the Darfur Fast for Life fasting chain to raise awareness about the ongoing suffering of the people of Darfur, who for six long years have lived under the genocidal regime of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. We are taking up where prominent activists and leaders like Mia Farrow, Richard Branson, Peter Gabriel, and Representative Donald Payne (D-NJ) left off; we want to contribute to the momentum generated by this movement and help build a strong resolve within the United States and the international community to find a comprehensive and lasting solution to Sudan’s conflicts ...