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Under ordinary circumstances, diverting or selling food aid may qualify as corruption. “With three quarters of a million people on the brink of starvation, they become crimes against humanity,” writes Somali expert Matt Bryden in a new policy paper published by the Enough Project ...

The Satellite Sentinel Project is receiving prominent attention from news broadcasters, including National Public Radio and Al Jazeera English. NPR’s Brooke Gladstone interviewed Enough Project Director of Communications Jonathan Hutson for the October 1 broadcast of “On the Media” to learn more about the project’s human rights monitoring via satellite. And today at 3:30, Hutson will be a guest on Al Jazeera English's "The Stream," an interactive show that viewers can participate in via Twitter ...

The City of St. Petersburg has passed a resolution changing its purchasing practices on electronics to favor products that are free of conflict minerals that are fueling the world's deadliest war in the Congo ...

With nearly 4 million people in need of food aid and 750,000 at risk of starvation, Somalia’s rulers should be tried for crimes against humanity for using food as a weapon to control the population and for personal gain, according to a new Enough Project paper by Somalia expert Matt Bryden ...

NBA star and humanitarian Tracy McGrady made a commitment to scale up direct online communication between U.S. students and children in Darfuri refugee camps. McGrady works with the Darfur Dream Team Sister Schools Program to foster cross-cultural understanding and engage U.S. youth in advocacy and fundraising to improve the quality of education for their Darfuri counterparts. A member of the Clinton Global Initiative, or CGI, McGrady made the pledge at the recent CGI’s annual meeting ...

Before the end of this year tens of thousands of people in Somalia—possibly hundreds of thousands—are going to die. As Somalis now starve, the militant Islamist group al-Shabaab denies them even the opportunity to migrate in search of food ...

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Last week, the Satellite Sentinel Project, or SSP, reported on what appeared to be mechanized units of the Sudanese Armed Forces, or SAF, pointed toward the rebel stronghold of Kurmuk in Sudan’s Blue Nile state. An estimated 25,000 internally displaced people have poured over the Sudanese border, fleeing from indiscriminate bombing in Kurmuk to the relative safety of camps in neighboring Ethiopia, as Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir touted the army's plans to overtake the rebel stronghold "soon." ...

Abyei should remain accessible to humanitarians operating from both Sudan and South Sudan, the U.N. humanitarian coordination office, or OCHA, and former southern minister Luka Biong Deng said recently. An estimated 110,000 people remain displaced from Abyei and are scattered in locations to the south of the area. Humanitarian agencies responding to the needs of the displaced population have been largely operating in South Sudan, where the new government in Juba has control ...

MTV Act featured the Raise Hope for Congo campaign's new video launching the Conflict-Free Campus Initiative. "Apple, Microsoft, Dell, Nintendo, HDC — the students have spoken: You'd better clean up your act," writes MTV Act's Caroline Walker ...