Author: Laura Heaton

Rwandan troops wearing Congolese army uniforms are turning up in the key mining area of Walikale, civilian and military sources tell Enough, just a week after news spread of an alleged agreement between Presidents Kabila and Kagame to grant the Rwandan army permission to launch an operation on Congolese soil ...

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The substance of the U.S. offer of incentives to Sudan this week may not be much different from what the Obama administration has put forth all along. But who is doing the offering is significant ...

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Could it be that the burst of attention to Sudan – from both the Obama administration and journalists covering U.S. foreign policy – signals that the Sudan issue has reached a tipping point? ...

News of violent clashes in Darfur over the weekend left U.N. peacekeepers again looking at best ineffectual and at worst complicit in government efforts to downplay the ongoing humanitarian crisis that is now in its seventh year ...

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There are just 128 days to go until southern Sudan votes in a referendum that will likely split the country in two. But the U.S. is doing far less than it could to help ward off potential violence at this crucial moment for Africa's largest country ...

A disturbing revelation about the recent mass rapes in eastern Congo emerged from the pages of The New York Times yesterday: the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo knew the violence was unfolding from the very first day ...

As the lead editor and writer for Enough Said, I’m excited to bring our blog’s daily reporting even closer to the conflict zones we cover ...