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Nearly a week after the Sudanese army forcibly took over the disputed border area of Abyei in a strategic aerial and ground campaign backed by militias, the Sudanese government remains intransigent, responding to international condemnation and calls to withdraw from the region with avowals to remain in Abyei and even to retaliate. Though South Sudan President Salva Kiir announced today that the South will not be provoked into going to war, the situation remains dire, with little humanitarian access to those newly displaced and limited independent monitoring of what is taking place on the ground in Abyei itself ...

Deng Arop Kuol, the Chief Administrator of Abyei until the SAF occupation, has called on the international community, and in particular the U.N. Security Council and the United States, to "take tough action" and exert greater pressure on President Omar al-Bashir. He said the tough action should not exclude military options ...

This multimedia timeline tracks developments on the ground in Abyei that have unfolded during the past several months, as talks at the political level between the two parties continued to yield no solution to the region’s status ...

“People often ask me why I do this type of work and how I got started. I tell them there’s no short answer and that I’m not entirely sure I understand it myself! I have no single childhood trauma to offer as a compelling reason, or great religious conviction— but rather a strong feeling of moral obligation and sense of fairness that years of therapy might eventually connect to any number of personal insecurities or a fear of who knows what. What I do know is there’s a drive I can’t deny," writes Professor Lee Ann de Reus as she ...

The latest analysis of satellite images by the Satellite Sentinel Project, or SSP, confirms reports of Sudan Armed Forces-led attacks on Abyei, including the razing of one southern-aligned base north of Abyei town. The project, which has consistently documented military build-up in and around the Abyei area, says that northern occupation of the disputed border area was premeditated ...

As with other social movements, students have led the way. Across the United States, student leaders are stirring up interest on campuses, collecting pages of signatures, and petitioning their administrators and trustees to enact policies committing endowments and procurement plans to “conflict-free” investments and purchases. Now, city councils in Pittsburgh and St. Petersburg are setting the pace among U.S. cities to commit to ensuring that public funds are not perpetuating the conflict in eastern Congo ...

New photos provide evidence of organized ransacking and razing in Sudan’s Abyei town, which is currently being occupied by the Sudan Armed Forces and northern-aligned armed militias ...

It’s been a year today since President Obama signed the Lord’s Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act, to much optimistic fanfare. This landmark legislation, supported by a broad bipartisan coalition, required President Obama to develop a strategy for eliminating the threat posed by the Lord’s Resistance Army, or LRA, a brutal rebel group that has been terrorizing civilian populations in central Africa for nearly 25 years. So, one year later, what has changed? ...

Last Friday, Under-Secretary General Francis Deng, the United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, and Enough Co-Founder John Prendergast engaged in a conversation on genocide prevention in a panel hosted by the U.N. Department of Public Information and Facing History and Ourselves. In the two hour-long discussion, Deng and Prendergast reflect on the tools and capacity the international community has developed in the ongoing effort to keep the ‘never again’ pledge ...

The Obama administration needs to do more to end the humanitarian crisis created by the brutal Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in central Africa, a group of human rights organizations said in a new publication, “President Obama’s LRA Strategy Report Card.” ...