CNN Op-ed: Elephant Killings Surge as Tusks Fund Terror
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The accelerating pace of the slaughter of elephants for their tusks has put African elephants at catastrophic risk in the coming decades. To make matters worse, some of the region's most notorious armed groups are taking tusks to finance their atrocities ...
Politico Op-ed: A Move Toward Peace in Congo
Secretary of State John Kerry sent a powerful signal Tuesday to the people of war-torn eastern Congo by appointing former Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) as the new U.S. special envoy to Africa’s Great Lakes region ...
Al Jazeera Op-ed: Sudan’s Scorched Earth Campaign: A Filmmaker’s Focus
In the past year, my colleague Viktor Pesenti and I spent time with people being bombarded by their own government in Sudan's conflict-torn Blue Nile state, near the border with South Sudan ...
Video: Invisible Children’s Efforts to Promote LRA Defection
The population of elephants in Garamba National Park in northeast Congo has dropped from 20,000 to just over 2,000 since 1960 ...
Censorship as a Human Rights Violation in Sudan
The Sudanese National Intelligence and Security Services, or NISS, confiscated over 10 major newspapers in Sudan in May of 2012, banned 13 journalists from operation, and identified several prohibited topics of discussion ...
Five Stories You May Have Missed This Week
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A weekly roundup of must-read stories, posted every Friday (sometimes Saturday) ...
Activists Bring One Million Bones to the National Mall
On June 8, thousands of volunteers clad in white placed one million handcrafted clay and paper mache bones on the National Mall in Washington, D.C ...
Satellite Imagery Confirms Troops in the Demilitarized Zone in the Sudans
A new report by the Satellite Sentinel Project, or SSP, reveals that Sudan and South Sudan have troops in at least 14 locations within their contested border zone in violation of September 2012 agreements to demilitarize the border region ...
The Daily Beast Op-ed: Darfur’s Still Burning
Despite the narrative from diplomats and journalists that Sudan’s civil war is mostly over, Janjaweed gunmen are still terrorizing the region. This time, no one’s paying attention ...
Celebrating Secretary Kerry’s Renewed Focus on Sudan
United States Secretary of State John Kerry’s renewed emphasis on foreign policy relating to Sudan and South Sudan is incredibly encouraging ...
