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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Matt Brown, [email protected], +1-202-468-2925 WASHINGTON – The Enough Project praised the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court for publicly requesting the Court to issue an arrest warrant against Abdel-Rahim Mohamed Hussein, Sudan’s Defense Minister, for war crimes in the conflict in Sudan’s western Darfur region. The Enough Project also released a report citing evidence of Hussein’s war crimes committed in the ongoing conflict along the border with South Sudan. “An arrest warrant would be helpful in that it would focus responsibility for major war crimes more closely on the senior figures in the ...

The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for First Lieutenant-General Abdelrahim Mohamed Hussein, a senior Sudanese military officer. This fact sheet explains who Hussein is and where he stands in the security apparatus of Sudan, sets out the allegations laid against him by the ICC and describes the crimes for which the Enough Project believes he shares responsibility in Abyei, Blue Nile and South Kordofan ...

A full rogues’ gallery of terrorists, war criminals, and dictators has been taken from the field this year: Osama Bin Laden, Ratko Mladic, Muammar Gadaffi, Laurent Gbagbo and others. Now there is a real opportunity to add another name to this list by apprehending Joseph Kony, the brutal leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, or LRA, the group which has plagued several central African countries for nearly 25 years and has killed tens of thousands and has abducted approximately 70,000 children and adults ...

Yesterday, Laurent Gbagbo became the first former head of state taken into custody by the International Criminal Court since the ICC’s establishment in 2002. While ICC prosecutors have previously issued arrest warrants for heads of state, namely Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and former Libyan Leader Moammar Qaddafi, Gbagbo’s arrival at the ICC’s detention center is a seminal moment for the ICC as it solidifies its position as an arbiter of international justice ...

Student leader Carly Oboth wanted to use this season of heightened consumerism to make a point about our connection to the war in Congo through our electronics. Here's her Letter to the Editor of American University's newspaper. Take a look at hers and draft one of your own ...

The latest Satellite imagery collected on November 27 by the Satellite Sentinel Project shows evidence of the intentional destruction of structures in ‘Amara Village, located in the border state of Blue Nile, Sudan ...

Guest blogger Gabriel Stauring is reporting from the ground in Chad, where he is visiting Darfur refugee camps with the Enough Project’s Darfur Dream Team. His post is part of the campaign launched this week by Sudan Now to call for emergency assistance for survivors of ongoing Sudanese government attacks ...

The Satellite Sentinel Project (SSP) has identified evidence indicating that the Sudan Armed Forces, or SAF, intentionally razed civilian structures in the village of 'Amara in Blue Nile State, Sudan ...

An arrest warrant issued this week by the Kenyan high court for Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir set off a new diplomatic row. In spite of initial remarks by the Sudan foreign ministry that downplayed the warrant—chalking it up to an internal Kenyan power play on a politically sensitive issue—the ministry announced Tuesday that the Kenyan ambassador was being given 72 hours notice to leave the country ...

Frank Wolf (R-VA) is currently serving his 16th term in Congress. He has been a long-time supporter of international human rights, and has traveled to Ethiopia, Sudan, Sierra Leone, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda to witness firsthand the suffering of people in these nations, and to bring attention to the various crises. Congressman Wolf was also instrumental in leading the first congressional delegation to Darfur ...