Certifying Congo’s Deadly Conflict Minerals
It’s time for a new blood diamonds campaign, but this time for the conflict minerals that are tearing apart the Congo ...
Latest Report: The Urgency of Congo Minerals Certification
Through a series of interviews conducted in North Kivu, Prendergast and Bafilemba offer a view from the ground of how the minerals trade continues to be dominated by mafia-like networks of military, political, and business interests in the Congo, and the effects these networks have on regional and international supply chains ...
Protests In Sudan Another Hit To Bashir Regime
Tunis and Cairo-inspired revolutionary fervor spread to Sudan on Sunday, as anti-government demonstrators rallied across major cities, protesting high prices, corruption, unemployment, and the political status quo ...
Obama Administration Fields Questions on Sudan
At the risk of patting the movement on the back, Sudan activists have had a pretty good month ...
Sudan’s Media Frenzy and Why Journalists Need to Stay Tuned In
The fragile period before South Sudan’s formal independence on July 9 is when the media spotlight is going to be especially important ...
5 Stories You Might Have Missed This Week
A weekly round-up of must-read stories, posted every Friday ...
The Promise of Peace and the Power of Satellite Imagery
With my iPad, I can peer each morning at the latest high-resolution imagery of Sudan, captured by DigitalGlobe's constellation of satellites, from 450-700 kilometers (280-435 miles) above Earth, hurtling at 17,000 MPH ground speed. You can see some of these amazing images, too, in the Satellite Sentinel Project's first report, released yesterday ...
Thoughts and Links on Cote d’Ivoire
Given the personal and professional passion that those of us at Enough have for the prevention of mass atrocities, international justice, human rights, Africa, democracy – all of the above – it is with great concern and alarm that many of us have followed the unfolding political and looming humanitarian crisis in Côte d’Ivoire ...
In Sudan Official’s Washington Remarks, Red Flags on Citizenship, Darfur
Even as Sudan's foreign minister tried to make his case for normalized relations wih the U.S., his remarks raised further doubts over the Khartoum government’s commitment to sustained peace across Sudan ...
Sudan Policy Call Today
Tune in today at noon EST for a Sudan policy call aimed at advocates, featuring updates from Enough, SDC/GI-Net, and Human Rights Watch ...
