As Fighting on Sudan-South Sudan Border Intensifies, Uncertainty Remains for Thousands of Southerners in the North
Largely absent from recent coverage of Sudan and South Sudan has been the passage of the April 8 deadline after which ethnic southerners in Sudan—numbered as many as 700,000—were required to register as foreigners in Sudan or move back to South Sudan, where they are citizens ...
Sudan, South Sudan Armies Gearing Up for a Bigger Fight Along Their Long Border?
Since the re-taking of the disputed area of Heglig by the South Sudan army last Monday, a move that has dramatically escalated hostilities between Sudan and South Sudan, the military situation has been marked by flare-ups along the North-South border and constant bombings of South Sudan by Sudan. Now the expectation is that a large counter-offensive by Sudan into Heglig could begin at any moment ...
New Report: Security Sector Reform Key to Peace and Development in Congo
The Congolese government and international community should urgently reform the Congolese military and security sector, according to a newly released report spearheaded by the Eastern Congo Initiative and 12 other leading international and Congolese civil society groups, including the Enough project. The report, “Taking a Stand on Security Sector Reform,” is the product of extensive research and interviews in Congo and several donor countries ...
Central African Republic: Mutinies, Civil Wars, and a Coup, 1993-2003
This week's post in the series Enough 101 is the second in a multi-part history of the Central Africa Republic ...
Obama Administration to Support Key Part of Fight Against Conflict Minerals: Independent Monitoring
The Obama administration announced last Thursday that it will support a critical missing link in the fight against conflict minerals: independent monitoring. This is a major step in the long fight against the illegal trade in conflict minerals ...
Turning Words into Action in Eastern Congo
President Kabila has publicly announced his consideration for arresting the ICC-indicted war criminal Bosco Ntaganda. North Kivu’s civil society wants to see Kabila turn his statement of good intention into real action without delay ...
John Prendergast Honored at Two Events
Enough Project Co-founder John Prendergast was honored at two different events for his ongoing work as a mentor and human rights activist ...
A Crucial Question as Conflict Escalates Between Sudan and South Sudan: Where is Heglig?
International confusion and ignorance in answering this question about Sudanese geography has become one of the greatest threats to peace, and the negotiations required for peace to be sustained, writes Sudan specialist Eric Reeves ...
Hoosiers Mobilize for Human Rights in Congo
Student leaders Henry Dambanemuya and Ellie Hamrick recently spearheaded a conflict minerals event and workshop during a summit in Indiana focused on prevention of genocide and mass atrocities. In this guest post, they wrote about how Congo advocacy is taking off on campuses across the state ...
U.N. and A.U. React to Sudan-South Sudan Border Conflict
Both the U.N. Security Council and the A.U. Peace and Security Council issued statements about the rising conflict between Sudan and South Sudan yesterday, with the U.N. demanding and the A.U. calling on both countries to immediately to deescalate conflict along their ill-defined international border, including the South withdrawing from Heglig and the Sudan Armed Forces, or SAF, ceasing aerial bombardments in South Sudan ...
