‘I Act for Sudan’ Generates Facebook Buzz, Urges U.S. to Protect Atrocity Victims
Following up on its recent open letter to President Obama, the new alliance Act for Sudan is mobilizing on Facebook this week to get its message out to the masses and especially policy makers: It is time for the U.S. government to escalate actions against the Khartoum regime ...
Greenpeace Teams Up with Enough for Conflict Minerals Standards
Just in time for the holidays, Greenpeace has released its 2011 Guide to Greener Electronics. This annual report serves as consumer guide for 15 leading global electronics companies and ranks each company on its energy use and emissions, green products, and sustainable operations. This year HP ranked first on the Greenpeace scale by a fairly significant margin, while RIM brought up the rear with a score of only 1.6 out of 10 ...
SSP Corroborates Evidence of Bombings of South Sudan Refugee Camps
The Satellite Sentinel Project followed up its November 11 report showing Sudan Armed Forces increasing air attack capacity near the border of Sudan and South Sudan with another report today that confirms evidence of bombings in Guffa and Yida refugee camps in South Sudan ...
Everyday Heroes in Congo: Stories of Hope
We set out to eastern Congo a few weeks ago to highlight what life has been like for five people surrounded by this conflict that has lasted for over 15 years, and each person we met reshaped any preconceived notions about where this journey would take us. We’ve returned even more curious than when we began, inspired to continue to do everything we can from our position to end the conflict, and excited to share with you faces beyond statistics that we’ve gotten to know over the past couple of weeks ...
Bombing in South Sudan
Enough Project Co-founder John Prendergast and Policy Advisor Omer Ismail discuss the Nov. 10 2011 bombing of a refugee camp in South Sudan by Sudanese military aircraft. Ismail just returned from the region, where he heard accounts of refugees from Blue Nile State ...
The LRA and U.S. Policy: May 2010 to Present
This week's post in the series Enough 101 looks at the history of the Lord's Resistance Army ...
Satellites Corroborate Reported Sudan Armed Forces Bombing of Refugee Camps in South Sudan
The Satellite Sentinel Project, or SSP, has released new imagery corroborating reports that the Government of Sudan has bombed two refugee camps in South Sudan. DigitalGlobe satellite imagery captured 14 November and analyzed by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative for SSP reveals the Government of Sudan’s military aircraft at its El Obeid airbase in North Kordofan – including Antonov planes consistent with those eyewitnesses described as bombing the Guffa and Yida refugee camps across the border in South Sudan on 8 and 10 November ...
Escalating Crisis in Sudan: Satellite Imagery Shows Increased SAF Air Capacity, Refugee Camp Attacks
On Friday, November 11, Satellite Sentinel Project released a report, “Radius of Operations: Sudan Increases Air Attack Capacity” providing evidence of a build-up of Sudanese Armed Forces, or SAF, on the border of Sudan and South Sudan and portending the possible resumption of war between the two countries ...
Congo: Political Tensions Heat Up Ahead of Election
The excitement and anticipation of the upcoming Congo elections have been overshadowed by rising tensions between opposing political parties, resulting in recent clashes throughout the country. The election—only the second in the nation’s history—is set for November 28, but already violence and hate speech surrounding the election has heated up and fears of further eruption are looming ...
Satellites Show Sudan Armed Forces Increasing Air Attack Capacity Near Southern Border
The Satellite Sentinel Project, or SSP, has confirmed that the Sudan Armed Forces, or SAF, is upgrading air bases recently captured from rebels in Sudan’s Blue Nile border area, which increases Sudan’s capacity to carry out airstrikes along the border and in neighboring South Sudan ...
