Author: Laura Heaton

Few things fire up a group of activists like being told that they have to move their protest to a place where they’ll be less disruptive. Essentially, that’s what tech powerhouse Intel told a group of human rights activists, after people concerned about Intel’s link to the black market mineral trade in Congo — blamed in part for the world’s deadliest conflict since World War II — bombarded the company’s Facebook wall this week ...

If you find yourself on a train in the northeastern United States sometime soon, check the seat pocket in front of you for the latest edition of Amtrak’s Arrive magazine. Enough Co-founder John Prendergast is featured in the magazine’s Trendsetters column ...

While the details of the recent fighting in the rebel stronghold of Jebel Moon vary greatly depending on who you ask, a number of sources told Enough that what’s indisputable is the fact that the Sudanese government is deploying heavy artillery, a move it hasn’t made since the start of the conflict in 2003 ...

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If Samantha Power — who was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, acclaimed journalist, and popular Harvard lecturer on human rights before becoming a close advisor to President Obama — says that she has a story to tell about a “man of action and a man of reflection,“ who had “a thirty-four-year head start in thinking about the plagues that preoccupy us today,” we would all do well to listen ...

Sudan watchers closely followed yesterday’s Senate hearing featuring Special Envoy Scott Gration testified about U.S. efforts to prevent a return to war in Sudan. Generally, the briefing was rather mellow, considering the way the senators have sparred with Gration in the past on implementation of the U.S. policy in Sudan ...

Amid mounting public pressure for the Obama administration to implement its policy on Sudan, the president's special envoy will take questions from the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations this Wednesday ...

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Recent reports of desertions by Somali soldiers highlights a problem that so often plagues efforts to combat Somalia’s well-armed opposition groups and bolster the fragile government ...

Meet the Press host David Gregory closed out Sunday’s interview with Secretary of State Clinton with a question about Sudan. Watch it here ...