Portland Goes Conflict-Free
Activists and policymakers are celebrating the Portland City Council’s vote today to enact a policy to ensure that cellular devices and other key communication equipment purchased by the city are not connected to killing, child abductions, or sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
Enough Project Statement on U.S. Special Envoy Booth’s Visit to Khartoum
The U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan and South Sudan, Ambassador Donald Booth, is traveling to Khartoum, Sudan this week. Today, the Enough Project released a statement to the Special Envoy encouraging him and the U.S. government to use this trip to enhance U.S. policy on Sudan by employing a much broader strategy of financial pressure to target the individuals and entities that profit from corruption and illicit financial activities and benefit from ongoing conflict ...
Special Envoy Booth’s Khartoum Visit: Opportunity to Refocus U.S. Policy on Sudan
On August 25, the Enough Project released a public statement addressing U.S. Special Envoy for Sudan and South Sudan Donald Booth’s diplomatic visit to Sudan. Ambassador Booth should use this trip to enhance U.S. policy on Sudan by creating the financial pressure necessary to target the individuals and entities that benefit from pervasive corruption and ongoing conflict in Sudan ...
U.S. Special Envoy Booth’s Khartoum Visit: Opportunity to Refocus U.S. Policy on Sudan
August 25, 2015 – As U.S. Special Envoy Donald Booth visits Khartoum, the Enough Project published a statement today urging an enhanced policy of increased financial pressures on political elites in Sudan, in order to end ongoing armed conflict and suffering, address corruption, and pave the way for a credible national dialogue. The statement also lauded Ambassador Booth’s willingness to meet with civil society organizations while in Sudan, which demonstrates U.S. support of their important work in an increasingly constrained political environment ...
Packers News: Mulumba’s Mission Comes Full Circle
In an article on packersnews.com Congolese NFL linebacker Andy Mulumba details his involvement with the Enough Project's Raise Hope for Congo Campaign ...
7 Things That Need To Be In An Effective Plan B for South Sudan
August 17 is the deadline set for South Sudan's warring parties to reach a final political settlement to end their country's twenty-month civil war. Today, 5 days until the deadline, the Enough Project released a new brief outlining the 7 key elements for an effective Plan B ...
Beyond Deadlock: Recommendations for Obama’s Plan B on South Sudan
South Sudan’s warring factions have one last chance to end their country’s 20-month civil war and sign a compromise agreement proposed by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) mediators, who are leading negotiations. The U.S. government has promised serious consequences if the parties fail to meet the August 17 deadline set by the international community. During his recent visit to East Africa, President Obama convened a roundtable on South Sudan with the presidents of Kenya and Uganda, Ethiopia’s prime minister, Sudan’s foreign minister, and the African Union Commission’s chairperson to build consensus on the need to collectively pressure South Sudan’s ...
Foreign Policy Op-ed: How to Destroy a War Economy
This op-ed originally appeared in Foreign Policy and was written by Enough Project Founding Director John Prendergast. He writes that to end the conflicts plaguing Africa, the United States needs to follow the money being made off of them — and stop it ...
South Sudan: Protracted War in the World’s Youngest Nation
Enough Project's Akshaya Kumar joins a Google Hangout hosted by the Montreal Institute of Genocide Studies on the situation in South Sudan ...
Washington Post Editorial: South Sudan Destroyed from within by “Kleptocratic Regime”
The spectacle of failure in South Sudan is saddening. A nation that was brought to independence with the enthusiastic support of the United States, ending a long civil war, is now being torn apart by its own leaders. Millions in South Sudan are enduring hunger and disease. In the annals of nation-building experiments, this one may be remembered as ill-fated and short-lived. President Obama is now threatening further punishment of warring parties in a nation he once helped to its feet ...
