“Tusk Wars”: New information on the blood ivory trade of Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army
Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) is part of an onslaught of poaching in central Africa, and continues to pose a threat to local populations, across a swathe of central and east Africa, according to a new field-researched report by the Enough Project. In the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Garamba National Park, the report details LRA hunting groups and Sudanese and South Sudanese poachers are now in “an open war” against park rangers. On Friday, President Obama reauthorized the U.S. support mission to the African Union Regional Task Force to counter the LRA for an additional year ...
Activist Brief: Tusk Wars – Inside the LRA and the Bloody Business of Ivory
Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) is part of an onslaught of poaching in central Africa, and continues to pose a threat to local populations, across a swathe of central and east Africa, according to a new field-researched report by the Enough Project. The report, Tusk Wars: Inside the LRA and the Bloody Business of Ivory, tracks how ivory trafficking funds LRA operations and perpetuates violence against civilians. It uncovers new evidence of ivory trafficking into Sudan, including testimony by ex-LRA members of transactions with Sudanese merchants, as well as alleged trade with Sudan Armed Forces officers ...
Tusk Wars: Inside the LRA and the Bloody Business of Ivory
New field research from the Enough Project shows that the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) is weakened to an unprecedented point, counting only 120 armed fighters in its ranks, scattered across three countries in central Africa. Despite its weakened state, the LRA continues to pose a threat to local populations in Central African Republic (CAR), the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and in South Sudan, with 150 recorded attacks and 500 abductions of civilians for the first eight months of 2015 and 200,000 people displaced ...
BREAKING: Obama extends U.S. mission to find Joseph Kony, end LRA atrocities
President Obama has re-authorized U.S. support for the African Union-led counter-LRA mission, Operation Observant Compass, for one additional year starting now ...
UK Banking and Legal Services at High Risk of Exposure to Handling Corrupt Money: Govt Report
The UK Treasury and Home Office released a report warning of the high risk of exposure to handling corrupt money that the country’s banking, accountancy, and legal services sectors face ...
Hard Currency Scarcity and the South Sudan Economy
South Sudan’s ministry of finance has stopped selling hard currency to the country’s central bank. The advent of armed conflict, which broke out in December 2013, has reduced the production of oil, the country’s main revenue earner by 32 percent, affecting the overall performance of the economy ...
“Free Speech, Inc” – Conflict Minerals and the First Amendment
In a BloombergView piece, Cass Sunstein discusses the court case on Dodd-Frank Section 1502 ...
Sudan to Chair UN Food Agency Despite Blocking Rations to Peacekeepers
On Wednesday, U.N. spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric announced that the Sudanese government had seized 190 cargo containers containing food rations and operational supplies for peacekeepers in Darfur. Despite this announcement, on Thursday, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) announced that Amira Gornass, Sudan’s Ambassador to U.N.-based agencies in Rome, will serve as the next Chairperson to the FAO’s influential Committee on Food Security ...
Darfur Women Action Group To Host Upcoming Symposium on Women & Genocide in Darfur
On Saturday, October 17 and Sunday, October 18, 2015, Darfur Women Action Group will host the 4th Annual National Symposium on Women & Genocide in the 21st Century: The Case of Darfur ...
Map Highlights Environmental and Natural Resource Crimes in Africa
A new map in a Bloomberg BNA International Environment Reporter article by Wachira Kigotho shows the different types of environmental and natural resource crimes in different parts of Africa that are contributing to migration flows from the continent ...
