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Enough’s 5 Recommended Reads | May 18

Enough's 5 Recommended Reads is a biweekly series featuring important stories you may have missed ...

Congressmembers Urge Treasury Secretary Mnuchin to Target Kleptocratic Leaders Behind War and Famine in South Sudan

Republicans and Democrats join in letter to Treasury Department calling for use of anti-money laundering measures and targeted sanctions targeting corrupt networks Washington, D.C.  –  Yesterday, a group of bipartisan Members of Congress sent a letter to Secretary of Treasury Steven Mnuchin, urging him to "play a leading role in utilizing the full range of financial tools at the United States' disposal to target the corrupt and kleptocratic networks at the core of South Sudan's civil war." The letter was signed by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) and Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY), House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, ...

Enough’s 5 Recommended Reads | April 6

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Enough's 5 Recommended Reads is a biweekly series featuring important stories you may have missed ...

Enough’s John Prendergast to Speak on Famine in South Sudan

Tomorrow, Tuesday, April 4, the Enough Project’s Founding Director John Prendergast will speak on South Sudan at a panel at the “Africa Policy Forum on Famine” hosted by Congressmember Karen Bass and Congressman Gregory Meeks ...

New “Enough Forum” Report – “A Way Out?”

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New “Enough Forum” Report – “A Way Out?”
Today, the Enough Forum published a new paper “A Way Out? Models for negotiating an exit plan for entrenched leadership in South Sudan.” The author of the paper, whose name remains confidential due to security reasons, states that the outbreak of conflict in Juba, in July 2016 rendered the August 2015 Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan (ARCSS) dead, as one of the principal signatories of the agreement former First Vice President Riek Machar fled the country ...

Enough Forum: A Way Out? Models for negotiating an exit plan for entrenched leadership in South Sudan

Enough Forum: A Way Out? Models for negotiating an exit plan for entrenched leadership in South Sudan
The Enough Forum is a platform for dynamic discourse engaging critical issues, challenges, and questions among thought leaders, field researchers, and policy experts. Opinions and statements herein are those of the authors and participants in the forum, and do not necessarily reflect the opinion or policy recommendations of the Enough Project ...

Enough’s 5 Recommended Reads | Mar. 23

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​Enough's 5 Recommended Reads is a biweekly series featuring important stories you may have missed ...

John Prendergast Speaks on Famine in South Sudan

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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

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 ...