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It has been seven years, almost to the day, when the United States declared the situation in Darfur a genocide. Yet today Sudan and South Sudan remain in profound turmoil. Crimes against humanity and violence continue to be prevalent throughout Darfur, as well as in the disputed border regions of Abyei and South Kordofan. On a recent Saturday, members of the Sudanese diaspora, activists, and supporters gathered across the street from the White House in Washington, D.C., for a rally to bring attention to this seven-year mark and to the continued violence throughout Sudan ...

Four Congolese civil society activists recently joined international experts for a unique conference at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Voices From Congo: The Road Ahead. In an effort to speak with these Congolese activists on a more intimate level and to further the dialogue from the day before, the Enough Project hosted an additional meeting with the delegates on Wednesday at its Washington, D.C., office. The Congolese activists shared their stories with the staff at Enough, reminding us of the personal challenges and hardships that the local population still faces on a daily basis ...

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In an uncommon show of interest, the U.N. Security Council held a private meeting late last week to discuss the Lord’s Resistance Army, or LRA. It was the first time in nearly two years that the Council discussed the LRA as a stand-alone issue in an official meeting ...

With yet another Sudanese agreement dishonored, tensions between the Sudanese government and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North, or SPLM-N, continue to rise in the country’s border states, and violence threatens to spread from South Kordofan to Blue Nile. Malik Agar, SPLM-N chairman who is also the governor of the Blue Nile state told the Enough Project in Juba that there were no attempts of disarmament by SAF on the ground but he anticipates such action, saying they “do not fear SAF and have a contingency plan in place.” ...

Although she was unaware of it at the time, a human rights summit hosted by the Panim Institute in D.C. last month would end up permanently changing Dr. Mirele Goldsmith’s perspective on consumer electronics ...

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Activists called on President Obama this week to pursue limited military options in response to ongoing atrocities targeting civilians in Sudan's Nuba Mountains. Sudan expert Eric Reeves explains in this guest post the grave concerns about the violence that has already unfolded and the anticipation of further bloodshed that inspired this position ...

Attention to the situation in the disputed area of Abyei has been overshadowed by the worsening crisis to the northeast in the Nuba Mountains. In part, that may because of the agreement signed by Khartoum and Juba to remove their forces from the region and the U.N. Security Council’s authorization of a deployment of Ethiopian peacekeepers to secure the area. It seemed the situation was on the mend; with nearly 4,300 peacekeepers and police on their way to Abyei, surely the more than 100,000 displaced people would soon return home. But it's not the case ...

The Enough Project has launched an online database of Celebrity Upstanders who have used their star power to assist Enough by hosting events, appearing in videos and YouTube campaigns, traveling to Africa, and taking other significant steps to bring attention to Enough’s issues in order to end Africa’s worst human rights atrocities ...