Enough’s 5 Recommended Reads | Mar. 23
Enough's 5 Recommended Reads is a biweekly series featuring important stories you may have missed ...
John Prendergast Speaks on Famine in South Sudan
Enough Project's Founding Director John Prendergast spoke to Channel 4 News this week about the devastating famine in South Sudan ...
Daily Beast Op-ed: Corrupt Leaders Thrust South Sudan Into Famine and Abject Ruin
A legacy of corruption and violence has finally caught up to South Sudan, the world’s newest country, as the United Nations has declared a full-blown famine, a rare designation not made for any part of the world since 2011. Multiple UN officials have additionally warned that the country, riven by armed conflict, stands on the brink of genocide ...
How The World’s Newest Country Went Awry: South Sudan’s war, famine, and potential genocide
War has been hell for South Sudan’s people, but it has been very lucrative for the country’s leaders and commercial collaborators, South Sudan’s war profiteers ...
CBS 60 Minutes Segment on South Sudan
On Sunday, March 19, 2017, CBS 60 Minutes featured a powerful segment on how the world is responding to the ongoing humanitarian crisis in South Sudan. Enough Project Founding Director John Prendergast was in South Sudan when 60 Minutes correspondent and CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley was doing the story, and Pelley interviewed Prendergast there on the root causes of the crisis. Learn more: Read this Washington Post op-ed "South Sudan's Government-made Famine" by The Sentry co-founders George Clooney and John Prendergast. Clooney and Prendergast note that this is not only a 'man-made' famine, but in fact a 'government-made' one, with the backdrop of ...
Despite Assurances, South Sudanese Government Continues to Impede Aid Efforts
Last month, the United Nations declared famine in parts of South Sudan with 100,000 people currently facing starvation and a further one million on the brink of famine. Despite such alarming reports, South Sudan’s government has put up roadblocks impeding international humanitarian aid efforts trying to reach those severely affected by the crisis. A recent report by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs stated that “Aid workers continue to face multiple obstacles to the delivery of humanitarian assistance across South Sudan, including active hostilities, access denials, and bureaucratic impediments.” ...
Washington Post Op-ed: South Sudan’s Government-made Famine
Official, U.N.-declared famines are a rare phenomenon. The last one worldwide was six years ago, in Somalia. Famines are declared officially when people have already begun to starve to death. It is the diplomatic equivalent of a seven-alarm fire. That is where the youngest country in the world, South Sudan, finds itself today, as 100,000 face immediate starvation and another 1 million are on its brink ...
Enough’s 5 Recommended Reads | Mar. 9
Enough's 5 Recommended Reads is a biweekly series featuring important stories you may have missed ...
Marking International Women’s Day 2017
Like many around the globe, women across crisis zones in east and central Africa are subject to sexual and gender-based violence. In the Democratic Republic of Congo particularly, SGBV is a disturbing feature of the country’s decades-long conflict as it is continually used as a weapon of war. Today, on International Women’s Day, the Enough Project is highlighting the vulnerable security situation for the women in eastern Congo’s mining areas ...
U.S. Businesses, Investors Express Support for the Conflict Minerals Rule
In recent weeks, numerous American businesses have come out publicly in support of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Conflict Minerals Rule, pursuant to Dodd-Frank Section 1502 ...
