Author: Laura Heaton

NPR’s Morning Edition featured a great piece out of Portland, Oregon about the efforts of activists to hold electronics companies accountable for their role in perpetuating the conflict in eastern Congo ...

For the second year in a row, a prize recognizing excellence in leadership in Africa will not be awarded ...

Opening tonight and running through June 24, the Human Rights Watch film festival in New York City will feature 30 films from 25 countries. Here are a few that we think Enough Said followers might be particularly interested to see ...

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Biden’s trip to Egypt, Kenya, and South Africa should lay the groundwork for meaningful follow-up to ensure that the United States and its partners are proactively heading off potentially explosive rifts in Sudan at this crucial stage, rather than trying to simply maintain the status quo and being overtaken by events on the ground ...

The album RAISE Hope for Congo, a compilation of exclusive tracks and inspiring lyrics from some of the music industry's top artists, was released today to raise awareness and energize the movement working to end the conflict and empower women in eastern Congo ...

After a two-month hiatus for the Sudan elections, peace talks aimed at resolving the seven-year crisis in Darfur resumed this weekend – but with some conspicuous absences and against a backdrop of ongoing clashes between the Sudanese government forces and rebels ...

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Floribert Chebeya knew what he was up against. Since the late 1980s he had endured numerous detentions and physical harassment from Congolese security services; he had canceled planned demonstrations out of fear for the safety of those who followed his lead, and defied threats against his own life when the stakes of failing to advocate seemed too high. He was found dead this week ...

The White House recently published a blog post and photo from the ceremony where President Obama signed into law the Lord’s Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act ...