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Emmy Award-winning producer and director Lisa F. Jackson had been tracking the horrors unfolding in the Congo for many years, mostly through anecdotal accounts from friends working in the area for the United Nations. She decided to travel to eastern Congo in 2006 to see for herself if what she had been hearing— that Congo was the “rape capital of the world”—was actually true and, if so, how and why this could be happening ...

As we inch closer to July 9, the date when South Sudan will become the world's newest independent country, the Sudan Now campaign is working hard to remind everyone – from average citizens to world leaders – that our work for peace in Sudan has just begun. We've spread the word through The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, on Facebook and across the internet, and now we're even in... drum roll, please... Times Square! ...

We posted the first episode of Guisma’s Story last week, and here is part two. Our Sudan Now partner iAct produced this video series to tell about the life and aspirations of Guisma, a six-year-old girl from Darfur who lives in a refugee camp in eastern Chad, and by extension, the many children like her ...

The paradox of Congo – ruin caused by years of war and poor governance amid enormous potential wealth – is a common theme when describing the challenges the country faces. But perhaps nowhere is the contradiction of utter lack of development amid abundant natural resources more pronounced than in Walikale, an isolated region in conflict-plagued eastern Congo ...

Upcoming elections in a heavily militarized border state have Sudan observers worrying that the exercise could lead to violence in an area whose stability is key to peace in Sudan. The vote, which was postponed since last April, will take place in South Kordofan state on May 2 and will select the state’s governor and legislative members. One candidate for governor is the notorious incumbent, Ahmed Haroun, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes in Darfur ...

Our partners at i-ACT frequently visit the Darfur refugee camps in neighboring Chad, where they have gotten to know many of the children and families who have seen the worst of the fighting in Sudan and been forced to flee their homes. This is the story of one of the children i-ACT met in a refugee camp: Guisma, a six-year-old girl who dreams of returning to a peaceful Sudan one day. We hope it will inspire you to stay engaged and help your friends and family join our campaign to make Guisma’s dream possible ...

As testament to the growing influence of students in the movement to end the trade in conflict minerals from Congo, Stanford University recently hosted the very first gathering aimed at sharing and coordinating efforts to create conflict-free campuses. Students from 12 schools across the country gathered in Palo Alto, California, for a conference to learn more about the conflict minerals issue, what different companies, NGOs, and countries are doing to make a difference, and how a statement from their respective universities on the purchasing of conflict-free electronics can incentivize key stakeholders to work for peace in Congo ...

“We don’t understand why President Obama would want to cut off Congo’s minerals,” said Idrissa Assani, expressing a sentiment clearly shared by his fellow miners who sat together in the dark office of their mining cooperative. “It is the innocents who are vulnerable” and who will suffer most from “Obama’s law,” he said ...

Here at Enough, we’ve been partnering with our friends over at Resolve over the past few weeks in a campaign called “Start Something to Finish It” – or S2F – which calls on members of Congress to ensure that President Obama’s strategy to stop the Lord’s Resistance Army is funded in next year’s budget and can be fully implemented in the coming months. Considering that the LRA Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act was passed with an historic level of bi-partisan support, we wish that we could just assume that the strategy that resulted from the bill would be funded ...

Militia attacks in South Kordofan last week included the deliberate razing of a village, according to analysis in the latest Satellite Sentinel Project report. The images demonstrate the destruction of more than 350 structures in the el-Feid village in the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan, a heavily militarized Sudanese border state that is weeks away from holding elections ...