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This month's elections in Congo come on the heels of legislation signed by President Barack Obama in July 2010 addressing one of the conflict's main drivers: conflict minerals. By initiating reforms, not only could the Congolese government boost public opinion in the East prior to the elections, but perhaps most importantly prevent outbreaks of violence at a particularly volatile moment. A new paper by the Enough Project outlines how ...

The Obama administration should use the lead-up to Congo’s election this month as an opportunity to press the Congolese government into reforms that will help end conflict in the country’s restive east, according to a new Enough Project report ...

For peace and stability to take hold in Congo, reform must happen on multiple fronts. The final lead-up to Congo’s elections marks a pivotal moment for reform and conflict prevention in eastern Congo, where success will require increased involvement from the Obama administration, the Congolese government, and corporations, all pushing for conflict minerals monitoring, mine security, and community protection ...

The stories we heard at Synergie, a hospital and counseling center for victims of sexual violence, ran over and over again in my mind throughout the night, keeping me awake. Nevertheless, I woke up with an energy I hadn’t yet felt on our jetlagged journey thus far ...

After hosting its Fifth Annual Evening for Darfur on October 24, Palm Beach Central High School became the highest individual fundraising school in the Darfur Dream Team, or DDT, Sister Schools Program. The event, where Enough Project Co-Founder John Prendergast and I spoke, raised $15,000 for Palm Beach Central’s Darfuri sister school, Aboutalib B, in Goz Amer refugee camp ...

With elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo now less than a month away, rising political tension is increasingly leading to violence between police and opposition forces. A recent joint statement signed by 41 human rights groups, including the Enough Project, warned of imminent destabilization caused by the polls and urged the U.N. mission in Congo to prepare to deploy its rapid reaction force to secure the violent areas ...

Actress and activist Robin Wright recently visited eastern Congo with the Enough Project, to see first-hand the effects of the fight to control Congo's conflict minerals ...

Actress and activist Robin Wright recently traveled to eastern Congo with the Enough Project. Her op-ed reflecting on the trip and what advocates in the United States can do to promote peace originally appeared on Time.com ...

“I saw bodies all the way from Damazine to Ethiopia,” said Kasmero, who was in the Blue Nile state capital of Damazine when fighting broke out in early September. “When you run, you don’t go through the main roads,” he explained. Sudanese government forces and militias are killing and raping civilians in the Sudanese border state of Blue Nile, according to accounts from refugees who recently fled the fighting. Alarming new details about how the war in Blue Nile is being conducted emerged from an Enough Project trip to the Ethiopian border—where nearly 29,000 Sudanese refugees have sought safety ...

The House Committee on Foreign Affairs last week called a rare full committee hearing to discuss President Obama’s recent deployment of U.S. military advisors to assist in the effort to end the Lord’s Resistance Army, or LRA. The president’s decision, heralded by rights groups as a positive step toward finally ending LRA atrocities in Central Africa, drew initial criticism from some members of Congress over the authorization of the advisors. Some new details about the deployment emerged from the hearing ...