Act for Sudan Emergency Action Summit Recap
Over 200 Sudan activists from across the United States joined in Washington, D.C., last weekend for a conference sponsored by Act For Sudan ...
Darfur10: We need education, peace, dignity, tolerance
Rahma is one of those individuals who can truly light up a room. He's charismatic, energetic, articulate, and has a great sense of humor. As an 18-year-old Darfuri refugee, Rahma has spent half of his young life in Djabal refugee camp in eastern Chad ...
The Hill Op-ed: Renewing Congress’s commitment to peace in Darfur and Sudan
Ten years ago this month, brutal attacks by the Government of Sudan against the people of Darfur first began to reach the world's attention ...
Darfur: 10 Years and Counting
In the past 10 years alone, we have seen: Our relationship with music shift completely, from recording songs from the radio on cassettes to walking around with personal music libraries in our pockets. The rise of reality television, documenting everything from the mundane to the very intimate. And of course, the digitization of nearly every aspect of our lives. For Darfuris, however, the past 10 years are not been marked with pop-culture phenomena, but instead with violence, displacement, and constant uncertainty about the future ...
New MONUSCO Mandate Should Include Programs to Increase Defections, Combat Smuggling
In the coming days, the United Nations Security Council will be debating the mandate of the U.N. mission in Congo known as MONUSCO, the world’s largest peacekeeping force. Based on a recent trip to eastern Congo and conversations with U.N. peacekeepers themselves, here are three ideas that I would want my taxpayer dollars to go toward ...
The Hill Op-ed: Staying the Course to End the LRA
Amid the security challenges in Mali, Somalia, Afghanistan, and elsewhere, some individuals in the administration want to pull back the advisors. But the advisors are starting to have a transformative impact on efforts aimed at disbanding the LRA, apprehending the group’s senior leaders who are wanted by the International Criminal Court, and protecting civilians from LRA violence ...
Terrorism: The Other Reason to Worry about Darfur
Islamist rebels fleeing French military action in Mali are successfully gaining refuge in Darfur. Sudan unabashedly hosted Al-Qaeda’s Osama Bin Laden and Ayman Zawahiri during the 1990s. Now, Khartoum is offering Malian terrorists safe haven in exchange for their support in the fight against the newly unified Darfuri opposition ...
Congo in 2020…
The international affairs magazine Global Brief recently asked two professors and Enough Project Executive Director John C. Bradshaw to envision the Democratic Republic of Congo seven years from now, in 2020. Bradshaw’s response, posted below, appears alongside the perspectives of Professor Calestous Juma from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and professor Gwendolyn Mikell from Georgetown University ...
5 Stories You Might Have Missed This Week
A weekly round-up of must-read stories, posted every Friday (or on occasion, on Saturday) ...
Why Support for Darfur Refugees Is Needed Now, More than Ever
Ongoing violence in Sudan’s western Darfur region has driven more than 271,000 civilians to flee their homes and temporarily resettle in refugee camps across the border in eastern Chad. Today, after 10 years of conflict, these refugees depend on international support for basic needs such as food and water, but, just as importantly, they also depend on this support for education ...
