Who’s the Boss?
President Obama’s Special Envoy to Sudan created a public relations firestorm last week when he insisted that the situation in Darfur today reflected “remnants of genocide” rather than an ongoing genocide as had been suggested by President Obama and Ambassador Rice. Gration’s initial comments triggered a spate of press stories about divisions within the administration on Sudan policy as well as a gleeful reaction from the Bashir regime which felt the special envoy was exonerating them from any involvement in genocide. After heated internal discussions that delayed the noon State Department briefing for over an hour, the State Department spokesman ...
Ahead of Stakeholders’ Meeting, Paper Outlines Sudan’s Challenges
With representatives of more than 30 countries and organizations convening in Washington tomorrow to reinvigorate Sudan’s troubled Comprehensive Peace Agreement, or CPA, we’re releasing our latest strategy paper – Sudan: The countdown – that examines the difficult current state of play in Sudan as a number of crucial decisions loom on the horizon. The paper, authored by Professor Gerard Prunier and Enough Project Policy Assistant Maggie Fick, argues that the international community needs to adopt a new approach in this crucial period before the 2011 referendum in the South, which will decide whether Sudan remains united or splits in two ...
JOINT STATEMENT: Obama Administration’s Sudan Summit
Delegations from north Sudan’s National Congress Party, or NCP, and south Sudan’s Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, or SPLM, will meet here tomorrow at a conference organized by Special Envoy to Sudan Major General Scott Gration to address disputes over the stalled implementation of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement, or CPA ...
Not Much Fun To Be A Spokesman
The predicted fallout from Sudan Special Envoy Scott Gration's controversial remarks about genocide in Darfur and the return of the expelled aid groups (hopefully) hit a peak yesterday. Lots of sides weighed in, some of them spurred by a piece the Washington Post ran that prominently featured Gration's comment that the "coordinated" genocide in Darfur has ended. A post on ABC News' Political Punch blog highlighted apparent fissures in the Obama administration's policy on Sudan. Enough's executive director John Norris offers some context to Gration's comments and the significance of Gration's gaffe: And from Thursday's State Department briefing, the rather ...
In Honor of Darfuri Students, on World Refugee Day
As Americans, we often hear about challenges Africans confront, but we don’t always understand what we can do to help. When I heard about the crisis in Darfur, I knew I had to get involved. In 2007, I decided to see firsthand how the conflict in Darfur was affecting its people. I traveled to eastern Chad with Enough Co-founder John Prendergast and Enough Policy Advisor Omer Ismail to find out what I could do to help. I was not prepared for what I experienced when I arrived. I met with families who had been forced from their homes in Darfur ...
RELEASE: Darfur Advocacy Groups Urge Administration To Unveil Sudan Plan
In a State Department briefing today Special Envoy to Sudan Major General Scott Gration referred to the situation in Darfur as the “remnants of genocide,” and suggested that humanitarian aid to Darfur had been restored to almost the same level as before the government of Sudan expelled 13 aid agencies ...
RELEASE: Basketball Star Tracy McGrady Funds School Serving Darfuri Refugee Children
In honor of World Refugee Day, basketball star Tracy McGrady has made a donation to the Darfur Dream Team’s Sister Schools Program to support a Darfuri refugee camp school for one year ...
Congo: Plunder and Consumption
Explore the tragic links between Congo's incredible natural wealth and the unimaginable suffering of its people in this interactive graphic ...
Joseph Kony’s Revenge in Faradje
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 second post of a two-part series. Click here to read the first post. The pilot dips the plane’s wing under the horizon as we circle Faradje to get a better look at the destruction below. Dozens of blackened ...
The World of The International Criminal Court
This interactive map highlights the cases currently before the ICC and provides a background on the individuals being tried and their alleged crimes ...
