Ongoing Human Rights Abuses in Sudan: Prendergast Testifies Before Congress on the Sudans
Ten years after the height of the genocide in Darfur, the humanitarian situation in Sudan remains dire. State-sponsored violence and human rights abuse run rampant throughout the country and an estimated 200,000 Darfuris have been displaced since the beginning of 2013 ...
Advocacy Groups, Congo Experts Applaud Appointment of Special Envoy Feingold
You did it. Senator Feingold is the new U.S. Special Envoy for Congo. On June 18, Secretary of State John Kerry announced the appointment of former Senator Russ Feingold as the new U.S. special envoy to the Great Lakes Region of Africa ...
CNN Op-ed: Elephant Killings Surge as Tusks Fund Terror
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The accelerating pace of the slaughter of elephants for their tusks has put African elephants at catastrophic risk in the coming decades. To make matters worse, some of the region's most notorious armed groups are taking tusks to finance their atrocities ...
Politico Op-ed: A Move Toward Peace in Congo
Secretary of State John Kerry sent a powerful signal Tuesday to the people of war-torn eastern Congo by appointing former Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) as the new U.S. special envoy to Africa’s Great Lakes region ...
Advocacy Groups, Congo Experts Applaud Appointment of Feingold as Envoy
WASHINGTON -- Twenty-two advocacy groups and Congo experts applaud U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry for his appointment of former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) as the new U.S. Special Envoy for the African Great Lakes region and the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
Enough Project Applauds Kerry’s Appointment of Feingold as Special Envoy
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced former U.S. Senator Russell "Russ" Feingold (D-WI), as the new U.S. special envoy for Africa's Great Lakes region ...
Open Letter to U.S. Special Envoy to the Great Lakes Region, Russ Feingold
The Enough Project and a coalition of human rights experts congratulate Special Envoy Russ Feingold on his appointment as U.S. Special Envoy to the African Great Lakes region and call on him to lead the efforts for stability and peace in the central Africa. The signatories include: Anthony W. Gambino, former USAID Mission Director to the DRC; Stephen R. Weissman, Former Staff Director; House of Representatives’ Subcommittee on Africa; John Prendergast and Sasha Lezhnev of the Enough Project; Mark Schneider of the International Crisis Group; David Abramowitz of Humanity United; Sarah Pray of the Open Society Policy Center; Jason K ...
Al Jazeera Op-ed: Sudan’s Scorched Earth Campaign: A Filmmaker’s Focus
In the past year, my colleague Viktor Pesenti and I spent time with people being bombarded by their own government in Sudan's conflict-torn Blue Nile state, near the border with South Sudan ...
Video: Invisible Children’s Efforts to Promote LRA Defection
The population of elephants in Garamba National Park in northeast Congo has dropped from 20,000 to just over 2,000 since 1960 ...
Censorship as a Human Rights Violation in Sudan
The Sudanese National Intelligence and Security Services, or NISS, confiscated over 10 major newspapers in Sudan in May of 2012, banned 13 journalists from operation, and identified several prohibited topics of discussion ...
