Category: Op-eds

Don’t miss actress and longtime Sudan advocate Mia Farrow’s pointed op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal, on her frustration over the conditions under which Sudan’s election is set to take place ...

With the extensive knowledge that comes from being immersed in a place, Enough's southern Sudan researcher Maggie Fick is finding compelling ways to convince people far and wide that they should be watching what happens in Sudan. Here’s an op-ed recently published in her hometown paper, the Bainbridge Island Review ...

Writing in Monday's Wall Street Journal, Enough's John Prendergast and Jim Wallis, president of Sojourners, explain how "Obama Can Make A Difference in Darfur." The stories are beginning to trickle in from displaced-persons camps in Darfur: increasing hunger, epidemics and -- the quietest killer -- a shortage of water in the Sahara. Last month, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. His response was to expel international aid agencies that provide a lifeline to Darfurians, and with that, "never again" is being made into ...

Enough Project Co-Chair John Prendergast has a thoughtful op-ed today in the Christian Science Monitor about President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe’s steadfast resolve to maintain his iron grip on power even if it means “burning his own house down.” Prendergast argues that the policy choices to deal with Zimbabwe all have downsides, and the time has come for some sort of international intervention to oust Mugabe. At her Senate confirmation hearing yesterday, United States Ambassador-designate to the United Nations Susan Rice expressed her resolve to: work with southern Africa and bring their private condemnation [of President Mugabe] into the public ...

In an op-ed from our own John Prendergast and actor/activist Robin Wright Penn in the San Francisco Chronicle, the two discuss the huge role that Congo’s vast mineral wealth plays in that country’s continuing violence.(Robin has been a great supporter of our work and efforts to improve the lives of Congo’s women, and we cannot say enough nice things about her.) Make sure to visit our Raise Hope for Congo site and view the infographic on Congo’s resources as well ...