Darfur Dream Team Delivers Letters from U.S. Students to Darfuri Refugees
American high school and university students have written letters to Darfuri refugees, which will be hand delivered this Thanksgiving by the Darfur Dream Team Sister Schools Program. The Sister Schools Program works with U.S. schools and donors to support education for the Darfuri refugees and build connections between American students and their Darfuri peers ...
President Obama’s LRA Strategy Report Card: Issue #3
In Issue #3 of our LRA Strategy Report Cards we take stock of what President Obama has accomplished in the first year of implementing his comprehensive strategy to address Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) violence in central Africa, and what he will have to do in the coming months if hopes for an end to LRA violence in 2012 are to be realized ...
Key Juncture in U.S. Engagement with Congo Sparks Student Rally at White House – Join Us
With election-related violence on the rise, and experts highlighting some encouraging trends, as well as apparent challenges, connected to the increased focus on the trade in conflict minerals from the East, now is a key moment for the U.S. government to ramp up its engagement in Congo. Next Monday, November 21, the George Washington University STAND chapter is hosting a rally for students, activists, human rights organizations, and members of the African diaspora community ...
5 Stories You Might Have Missed This Week
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Violent Rhetoric on the Rise as Congo’s Presidential Hopefuls Visit the East
The city of Goma came to a standstill this week as its residents awaited the arrival of the incumbent President Joseph Kabila and one of the main opposition figures and presidential hopeful, Etienne Tshisekedi. As part of the electoral campaign, officially launched on October 28, the two contenders traveled to the provincial capital of North Kivu to stir up popular support for the upcoming elections on November 28 ...
Miriam, Sudan Refugee: ‘It’s too fresh in my mind’
Miriam was listless as she spoke, sitting on a plastic mat outside of a tukul in the refugee camp. “I can’t even make any sense out of it because it’s too fresh in my mind,” she said, patting a crying young child clamoring for her attention. “My mind is still gripped by this,” Miriam said as she began to tell about the day fighting broke out in the town of Wad el-Mahi in Sudan’s Blue Nile state ...
Tracking the LRA: There’s an App for That
In September, our friends at Resolve and Invisible Children partnered to launch the LRA Crisis Tracker, an online resource that documents the real-time activities of the Lord’s Resistance Army. Now, the online tool is available on-the-go ...
Launch of Public-Private Alliance for Responsible Minerals Trade
On November 15, 2011, the Enough Project, along with the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Department of State, the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region, and a coalition of private sector partners, civil society, and other organizations, formally launched the Public Private Alliance for Responsible Minerals Trade, or PPA ...
Congo Bishops: U.S. Conflict Minerals Bill Will Help Livelihoods
The Catholic Bishops Conference of Congo wrote to the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, last week supporting strong regulations for the Dodd-Frank legislation on conflict minerals and combating the notion that the bill is bad for Congolese livelihoods ...
Congo: The Legacy—And Now Present Threat—of the Volcano
Eastern Congo’s Nyamuragira volcano has been erupting at an epic scale near the city of Goma over the past few days. Having returned from Goma less than two weeks ago to capture stories not traditionally heard about life surrounded by conflict in eastern Congo, we’re left thinking about the impact these volcanoes have on daily life in the region ...
