Author: Enough Team

In a joint statement on June 8, 195 Congolese civil society organizations welcomed the recent sanctions imposed by the European Union and the United States on senior Congolese government officials ...

On June 1, a coalition of 262 Congolese and 9 international NGOs, including the Enough Project, called on the U.N. Human Rights Council to urgently establish a commission of inquiry into the situation in the central Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

In this op-ed, Enough's John Prendergast discusses the opportunity for the U.S. government to create a new human rights and peace track as part of a revitalized Sudan policy that addresses core U.S. interests such as peace, human rights, security, and good governance ...

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Today, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) placed Democratic Republic of Congo’s army General François Olenga Tete and a company linked to him, Safari Club, on its Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List ...

Washington, DC -- The deadline closed yesterday for publicly traded companies in the United States to file their fourth annual Conflict Minerals Reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The Enough Project looks forward to reviewing the reports and analyzing the progress companies have made in the last year, as well as marking any gaps in compliance. Holly Dranginis, Senior Policy Analyst at the Enough Project, said: “Transparency at this level, across industries, signals progress for corporate accountability. These reports make clear what companies are doing -- or not doing -- to find out where their minerals originate and ...

The Sentry's latest report examining documents concerning Lt. Gen. Malek Reuben Riak one of the senior generals that the U.N. Security Council’s Panel of Experts has identified as responsible for the violence in Unity state that directly led to the famine ...

The Sentry's new investigative report spotlights documents indicating top army general has amassed a fortune through questionable deals in energy, construction and explosives; U.N. says same general is partly behind violence in Unity state that led to famine May 31, 2017 -- A new investigative report released today by The Sentry, “Making a Fortune While Making a Famine,” reveals documents that indicate a top South Sudanese army general has amassed and offshored millions of dollars through an array of questionable business enterprises while the country suffers from devastating war and famine. The focus of The Sentry’s investigation, Lieutenant General Malek Reuben Riak, promoted on ...

On May 29, a special episode of National Geographic Explorer, featuring Enough’s Founding Director John Prendergast and hosted by actor Ted Danson, will highlight how armed groups, Congo's army commanders, and corrupt officials profit from the deadly trade in conflict gold from eastern Congo ...

Today, during Enough Project’s 10th Anniversary Commemoration Week, the Enough Forum published a new paper, “Crisis and Hope in Africa: The Enough Project at Ten Years”by Colin Thomas-Jensen ...