Le Monde Tribune : En Centrafrique, les groupes armés prolifèrent grâce à une impunité totale
Quatorze factions armées, une myriade de milices locales, des intrusions de mercenaires venus des pays limitrophes, une armée informelle « milicianisée ». En août, soit moins d’un an après le retrait officiel de l’opération militaire française « Sangaris », plus de 80 % du territoire de la République centrafricaine est sous le contrôle ou l’influence de milices armées ...
Influential Republican Presses Tillerson for Deeper U.S. Sanctions on Congo
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce wrote to U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson last week on the Democratic Republic of Congo. In his letter, he commends U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley for her "outspoken criticism of President [Joseph] Kabila's failure to honor the constitution" and urges Tillerson to work with the Treasury Department to "target the finances of additional Congolese officials who are standing in the way of the elections that are mandated by Congo's constitution." View the letter here. Such targeting could include anti-money laundering measures and targeted sanctions. For more on these financial ...
Senators Corker and Coons to Treasury Secretary Mnuchin: Deploy Financial Tools to End Corrupt Behavior of South Sudanese Leaders
In a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker (R-TN) and Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) detail the necessary steps the Treasury Department should take on South Sudan to “cut off the free flow of resources to the political and military elites, their families and associates.” ...
Enough’s 5 Recommended Reads | August 10
Enough's 5 Recommended Reads is a biweekly series featuring important stories you may have missed ...
New Report: Mapping Armed Factions in the Central African Republic
In this new report, author Nathalia Dukhan maps the many armed factions currently active in the Central African Republic ...
“Splintered Warfare”: Mapping Report Details an Escalating Crisis of Violent Armed Factions in the Central African Republic
A mapping report published today by the Enough Project provides a current and comprehensive look at the complex web of violent armed groups operating in the Central African Republic ...
Splintered Warfare: Alliances, affiliations, and agendas of armed factions and politico-military groups in the Central African Republic
This new report maps the current armed factions and politico-military groups in the Central African Republic ...
The AU Task Forces: An African Response to Transnational Armed Groups
This article examines the Task Forces created by the African Union (AU) to address the security threats posed by Boko Haram and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) ...
“Survival Mode”: Rebel Resilience and the Lord’s Resistance Army
This piece originally appeared in March 2017 in the Terrorism and Political Violence journal and was written by Enough Project Non-Resident Senior Fellow and College of Charleston Assistant Professor of Political Science, Dr. Christopher Day ...
Dire Humanitarian Situation in Darfur Alarms U.S. Embassy in Sudan
A “deteriorating” humanitarian situation in Jebel Marra in the Darfur region, is getting the attention of U.S embassy officials in Khartoum, Sudan, who expressed concern at what is being described as “critical levels of severe acute malnutrition” despite a concerted effort by aid agencies to arrest the worsening situation ...
