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Last weekend, the Enough Project partnered with Voices for Sudan—a local nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C. that works to amplify the voices of Sudanese diaspora in the U.S.— to host a media and advocacy skill-building workshop. It was designed to teach practical skills that would empower members of the diaspora to become more prominent voices in the media, on Capitol Hill, online, and in their own communities ...

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While many people are preparing for holiday festivities, the Lord’s Resistance Army could be planning another large-scale “Christmas massacre.” During the holiday season in 2008 and 2009, the LRA conducted widespread attacks, killing and abducting hundreds of people. Some analysts have cautioned that the LRA may do so again this year ...

2011 was a remarkable year in Sudan. Not only did the world look on as a new nation, the Republic of South Sudan, was born, but it also bore witness to, and largely failed to address, reoccurring human rights violations committed by Sudanese government and government-backed forces in Abyei, Blue Nile, Darfur, and South Kordofan ...

Remember Bart Fisher, the D.C. lobbyist for Sudan who made headlines in The Washington Post and Enough Said last week? How could you forget—after all, it is not every day that an American so publicly supports a genocidal dictatorship in exchange for a mound of cash. To make a public statement last week, Act for Sudan organized approximately 30 supporters to protest in front of Mr. Fisher’s office in downtown Washington, D.C. Enough staff joined the protest, where we made it known that if you represent the needs of the Sudanese government—a government that continues to bomb, kill, and displace ...

Political infighting has long hampered Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government, or TFG, with rifts between leaders often playing out in awkwardly public ways. But a meeting of members of Parliament geared toward naming a committee to choose a new speaker yesterday disintegrated into an all-out brawl of punching and kicking ...

With Joseph Kabila reinstalled in Congo’s presidential palace for another five-year term, discord remains high in the restive eastern region over the irregularities of the vote and the count. The calm is in part state imposed and in part the effect of peoples’ resignation toward the outcome and interest in moving forward without provoking insecurity in a region prone to violence ...

Azy Groth of partner organization Resolve highlighted remarks made by Presidential contender Mitt Romney in support of the U.S. military advisors deployed to support armies tracking the LRA in Africa's Great Lakes region. The piece is cross-posted from Resolve's blog ...

Statement of Enough Project Sudan analyst Omer Ismail in response to the Arab League's selection of Sudan's General Mohamed Ahmad Al-Dabi to head a human rights monitoring team in Syria: "It is perplexing that the Arab League chose the Khartoum regime's General Al-Dabi to lead its team monitoring the Syria regime because of his record of turning a blind eye to human rights crimes, or worse. When he served as Sudan's former head of Military Intelligence and when he oversaw implementation of the Darfur Security Arrangement, alleged war crimes including genocide were committed on his watch. Instead of heading a ...

Filmmaker Mike Ramsdell is making a film about the impact of conflict minerals on local communities in Congo. He wrote this guest post to describe the motivation for his project and to share the stories of people he has met during recent trips to eastern Congo ...