Author: Laura Heaton

Rarely do you meet someone “from” Juba, Sudan's southern capital, but the stories people tell of how they came to live here are remarkable and often tie in to the peace deal that gave the city its prominence. Even the pop stars ...

With the extensive knowledge that comes from being immersed in a place, Enough's southern Sudan researcher Maggie Fick is finding compelling ways to convince people far and wide that they should be watching what happens in Sudan. Here’s an op-ed recently published in her hometown paper, the Bainbridge Island Review ...

Sudan’s government has signed a deal with the leading rebel group in Darfur, the Justice and Equality Movement – a breakthrough after many months of stalled negotiations. The real question now is if the international community can build upon this positive momentum and work to create a comprehensive agreement that actually provides security and accountability for Darfuris on the ground ...

Chicago Bulls star and Darfur Dream Team member Luol Deng will take the stage with Enough’s John Prendergast this Thursday at a reception in Chicago benefiting the Darfur Dream Team Sister Schools Program ...

American Funds, one of the largest mutual fund companies, has joined the growing ranks of investment firms whose shareholders have voted to stop doing business with a prominent Chinese oil company blamed for helping to finance state-sponsored violence in Sudan. The shares amount to an estimated $189 million ...

If there was any doubt in your mind, recent developments probably seal the deal: The so-called Save Darfur movement seems to top the list of favorite advocacy efforts to lampoon ...

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In a strongly worded letter to President Obama, a group of grassroots Sudan activists is calling for Major General Scott Gration to be “relieved of his duties” as special envoy to Sudan. While the Enough Project has not called for the special envoy’s removal, it is interesting that frustration with General Gration has reached such a palpable level in some quarters that these groups see him as part of the problem in Sudan ...

Nicholas Kristof "is prepared to do the thing that is the hardest for many people in writing. He is prepared to be predictable; he’s prepared to be repetitive. [...] If [genocide] is happening every day, it deserves to be written about every day,” said Pulitzer Prize-winning author Samantha Power in a new documentary "Reporter." The film about the New York Times columnist will air on HBO tomorrow night ...

“[P]olicy makers and profiteers – near and far – must do more to remove the underpinnings of the war itself,” wrote Alan Doss, head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo, in a letter to the editor of the NYTimes ...