Author: Maggie Fick

28 Days. That is the amount of time left for Sudan’s rival parties to resolve their differences over a law that will determine the critical details of southern Sudan’s looming, landmark self-determination referendum ...

Here in Juba, the capital of southern Sudan, the need for 'fierce urgency' in implementing the Obama administration's new policy couldn't be more clear ...

In Juba, the capital of southern Sudan, the need for 'fierce urgency' in implementing the Obama administration's new policy couldn't be more clear. Tensions are running high and political rumors are flying in this town, which is ground zero for implementation of the peace agreement that is emphasized prominently in the Obama administration's Sudan policy ...

Human Rights Watch issued a hard-hitting and timely report this week, detailing how the Sudanese government is enacting its repressive practices in almost every imaginable way—repressing political opposition, stifling the free flow of information, committing human rights violation, and launching indiscriminate attacks against civilians ...

I, for one, am happy that it is September 1st. Here’s to hoping that starting today, the State Department will come up with better excuses for why the Sudan policy review has yet to be announced. In the wrap-up of yesterday’s State press briefing, a reporter commented that a number of policy reviews are pending and that the press would certainly be holding the Obama administration to its promises that these policy reviews will be completed and announced in the coming weeks. State spokesman Ian Kelly used the “August excuse.” ...

UPDATE: In breaking news from Juba, President Obama's Special Envoy to Sudan Scott Gration has announced the signing of a new deal today between Sudan's North and South that aims to keep the faltering Comprehensive Peace Agreement on track. No details on the content of this deal are public yet, but we'll keep you posted. The BBC's Juba correspondent reports that the mood in Juba today is optimistic, but that a number of thorny issues remain--notably, the hot-button issue of the as-yet-unpassed law laying the framework for the South's 2011 referendum (see below). Reporting from Juba, southern Sudan, Kenya’s Daily ...

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton ended her whirlwind and event-packed—yet still substantive—tour of Africa on Friday in Cape Verde, an island nation off the coast of West Africa. As Enough noted over the course of her trip, Secretary Clinton did an outstanding job outlining clear priorities for U.S. engagement on the continent, but she did not stop there. Secretary Clinton took the debate beyond the typical diplomatic rhetoric expected of a U.S. Secretary of State and moved head on into addressing the most challenging problems facing Africa today. She did not shy away from complex issues such as ...

Secretary Clinton’s visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo this week has focused much-needed attention on the impact of the world’s deadliest war on the country’s women and girls. The secretary has done an admirable job sounding the alarm on the scourge of sexual violence that has raged in Congo throughout more than a decade of conflict; her efforts and the ways in which she speaks about this sensitive and emotionally charged issue are neither simplistic nor condescending, and many diplomats and everyday outsiders who follow the conflict in Congo (myself included) would do well to follow her example. In ...

A coalition of members of the Sudanese diaspora in the US, along with American advocates from student groups and of human rights and faith-based groups has authored what they are calling a “Save Sudan” petition. This group is issuing a strong statement to the Obama administration not to lift sanctions on Sudan or remove Sudan from the state sponsors of terrorism list “until the Government of Sudan fully implements the North-South Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), brings an end to the ongoing genocide in Darfur, and discontinues agitating political and ethnic tensions in the east, the Nuba Mountains and Nubia in ...

Attacks by the Lord’s Resistance Army are on the rise in northeastern Congo’s Oriental province, and the U.N. High Commission for Refugees announced last week that these attacks have forced some 12,500 Congolese civilians from their homes in the past month. These new attacks are consistent with the LRA’s characteristically brutal tactics—abducting children, raping women, razing villages. Enough is partnering with Invisible Children for a new advocacy push this fall aimed at ending the scourge of the Lord’s Resistance Army in central Africa. More to come on that front soon, but for now, we've collected and just published some powerful ...