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In this new brief, the Enough Project lays out a detailed plan for how the Trump administration can develop and implement a new track of engagement focused on peace and respect for human rights – the absence of which help perpetuate Sudan's system of violent kleptocracy ...

In this piece, the Enough's Annie Callaway and Ian Schwab highlight the recent groundswell of support from Congolese groups, as well as a number of businesses, investors, and the public for maintaining the SEC's Conflict Minerals Rule, in response to attempts to undermine it ...

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Enough Project policy report details “playbook” of tools available to policymakers to address corrupt elites, intractable conflicts in Africa A policy report published today by the Enough Project details how the international community, and in particular the United States, can exert powerful leverage to impact the calculations, behavior, and material position of violent kleptocratic elites in East and Central Africa who are responsible for mass atrocities, famine, and genocide. “Yes, We Have Leverage: A Playbook for Immediate and Long-Term Financial Pressures to Address Violent Kleptocracies in East and Central Africa,” by Enough’s Brad Brooks-Rubin comes as a concrete and constructive ...

This new policy brief by Brad Brooks-Rubin offers a playbook for immediate and long-term financial pressures to address violent kleptocracies in East and Central Africa ...

This policy brief lays out four sets of tools that can form a playbook to deal with violent kleptocracies in East and Central Africa ...

Today, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), an eight-country trade bloc including governments from the Horn of Africa, Nile Valley, and the African Great Lakes, will hold an Extraordinary Summit on South Sudan in Addis Ababa. The summit will deliberate on the deteriorating security and humanitarian situation in South Sudan. Enough Project experts are available for comment and analysis. John Prendergast, Founding Director at the Enough Project, said: "Because its war is spiraling, South Sudan needs a new, dynamic, and inclusive peace process. IGAD is currently charged with mediating but its approach is inadequate in the face of multiplying armed actors ...

In a joint statement on June 8, 195 Congolese civil society organizations welcomed the recent sanctions imposed by the European Union and the United States on senior Congolese government officials ...

On June 1, a coalition of 262 Congolese and 9 international NGOs, including the Enough Project, called on the U.N. Human Rights Council to urgently establish a commission of inquiry into the situation in the central Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

In this op-ed, Enough's John Prendergast discusses the opportunity for the U.S. government to create a new human rights and peace track as part of a revitalized Sudan policy that addresses core U.S. interests such as peace, human rights, security, and good governance ...