Refugee Camp in South Sudan Bombed, Sparking Calls for International Response
With attention focused on the tense Sudan-South Sudan talks in Addis Ababa this week, media coverage only paused for a moment to recognize yet another aerial bombardment of a refugee site in South Sudan ...
ICC to Try Four Kenyans in Decision Seen as Key to Preventing Future Election Bloodshed
Judges at the International Criminal Court confirmed charges against four prominent Kenyans wanted on allegations they orchestrated violence that left an estimated 1,200 people dead after the late 2007 elections. The decision marked the “first solid step” in pursuit of justice for the victims and a crucial move in deterring violence ahead of upcoming presidential elections, said an advocate in the Kenyan capital ...
5 Stories You Might Have Missed This Week
A weekly round-up of must-read stories, posted every Friday (or on occasion, on Saturday) ...
10 Years of the Responsibility to Protect: A Glimpse at Sudan
At an event this week hosted by the Stanley Foundation in New York to recognize the anniversary, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon offered complimentary remarks about the use of R2P to justify action in Côte d’Ivoire and Libya. But it was the U.N. secretary general’s unusually candid insights about the limitations of implementing the Responsibility to Protect in South Sudan recently that stood out ...
Kenya In Somalia: Planning The War But Not The Peace?
Kenya’s landmark incursion into Somalia last October and ongoing military operations present some important opportunities and disquieting potential pitfalls for establishing lasting security in a region controlled by the al Qaeda-linked jihadi group al-Shabaab. This guest post for Think Progress introduces "After the Kenyan Intervention in Somalia," Enough's latest Somalia report, written by Ken Menkhaus ...
5 Stories You Might Have Missed This Week
A weekly round-up of must-read stories, posted every Friday ...
5 Stories You Might Have Missed This Week
A weekly round-up of must-read stories, posted every Friday ...
2011 A Banner Year for the ICC; What’s to Come in 2012?
Now four days into the New Year, the 2011 reflections are tapering off, giving way to predictions about what may be in store in 2012. But permit us one more: 2011 was a momentous year for the International Criminal Court as the institution played a role in some of the year’s most defining moments, further establishing itself as an avenue for pursuing justice for victims of even the seemingly most invincible leaders and war criminals ...
5 Stories You Might Have Missed This Week
A weekly round-up of must-read stories, posted every Friday ...
Amid Famine and Insecurity, Internal Battles Cripple Somali Government
Political infighting has long hampered Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government, or TFG, with rifts between leaders often playing out in awkwardly public ways. But a meeting of members of Parliament geared toward naming a committee to choose a new speaker yesterday disintegrated into an all-out brawl of punching and kicking ...
