Sudan’s Unhappy Anniversary
This Saturday marks the fifth anniversary of a monumental peace agreement in Sudan, one that brought a close to a 22-year civil war in which 2 million people died and 4 million were displaced. But unlike most anniversaries that prompt us to stop and reflect about the progress we've made, this occasion has the effect of reminding us of all the commitments that - even after five years - still only exist on paper ...
Stealing an Election In Slow Motion: Time for Real Consequences
Sudan’s national elections scheduled for April 2010 will be neither free nor fair absent significant international pressure to dramatically change the electoral landscape ...
Sudanese Regime Crackdown Requires Int’l Crackdown On Sudanese Regime
Today's vivid protests and arrests of senior SPLM politicians by Khartoum police clearly demonstrate that the U.S. should not be financing Sudan's electoral charade unless the laws are amended to allow for the basic requirements of a credible election ...
House Subcommittee Hearing Reviews U.S. Sudan Policy
Testifying before the House Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health today at a hearing to review the administration's new Sudan policy, I expressed the Enough Project's deep concern that the existing strategy of the United States and the broader international community to prevent all-out war in Sudan is failing ...
George Mitchell’s Lessons For Darfur
For the last couple of years, we at the Enough Project have been advocating that the U.S. needs to help marshal a set of protracted negotiations that will help break the deadlocks in Darfur ...
60 Minutes Spotlights Gold, Conflict Minerals Fueling Congo’s War
In a hard-hitting segment last night, 60 Minutes highlighted the role of gold in fueling Congo’s deadly war and detailed the Central African players and forces involved on the ground ...
What To Do About Sudan Now
As milestone after milestone is missed on the road to Sudan's 2010 election cycle, Enough experts try to answer the question: What's next for Sudan now? ...
From Camp David to Darfur, With 17 Camels
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Sometimes, a peace process needs someone to figure out the 18th camel ...
New Legislative Action Tackles Congo’s Conflict Minerals
The introduction of the Conflict Minerals Trade Act of 2009 in the United States House of Representatives today marks a critical milestone in the ongoing effort to make the use of conflict minerals in our electronics products a thing of the past ...
Arrests in Germany, Key Symbolic Blow to Congo Rebels
What is long overdue is an adjustment in the approach to create a broader and smarter counter-insurgency operation which seeks to protect civilians, demobilize ex-militia, and neutralize the FDLR leadership abroad. Finally, some good news from Germany regarding that last objective ...
