U.S. Special Envoy Booth’s Khartoum Visit: Opportunity to Refocus U.S. Policy on Sudan
August 25, 2015 – As U.S. Special Envoy Donald Booth visits Khartoum, the Enough Project published a statement today urging an enhanced policy of increased financial pressures on political elites in Sudan, in order to end ongoing armed conflict and suffering, address corruption, and pave the way for a credible national dialogue. The statement also lauded Ambassador Booth’s willingness to meet with civil society organizations while in Sudan, which demonstrates U.S. support of their important work in an increasingly constrained political environment ...
Enough Project Urges Obama to Create Cost for Greed Fueling War in South Sudan
July 23, 2015 -- In advance of President Obama’s arrival this Friday in Nairobi and the start of an historic set of diplomatic meetings and events in East Africa, the Enough Project today published a policy brief addressing one of the region’s most urgent crises, the civil war in South Sudan. "Creating a Cost for Those Destroying South Sudan" by the Enough Project’s Founding Director John Prendergast and Policy Analyst Akshaya Kumar, offers analysis and recommendations to tackle the connection between grand corruption and the financing of an escalating armed conflict ...
Press Resources: President Obama’s Trip to Africa
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New Report Examines Obama Policy Legacy in Africa’s Deadliest Conflicts
July 22, 2015 -- In advance of President Obama’s historic trip tomorrow to Kenya and Ethiopia, a report published today by the Enough Project analyzes the president’s policy legacy in key conflict-affected areas in Africa ...
Enough Project’s Kumar Testifies to Congress on South Sudan War
July 10, 2015 (Washington DC) – Making a case for targeted sanctions enforcement, stolen asset recovery efforts, and accountability for economic crimes, the Enough Project’s Akshaya Kumar testified this morning at the U.S. House of Representatives Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission's hearing on “The Current Human Rights Situation in South Sudan.” ...
South Sudan Marks Independence amid Civil War, Escalating Crisis
July 8, 2015 – South Sudan marks the fourth anniversary of its independence this Thursday, July 9th. The world’s newest nation is locked in a devastating civil war that has displaced 2 million people and left almost half the population without enough food to eat. In conflict-affected areas, UN and relief agencies report burned villages, killings, rape, abductions, and targeted attacks on civilians, including on women and children ...
Enough Project Applauds Appointment by Secretary Kerry
July 6, 2015 (Washington, DC) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced former U.S. Representative Tom Perriello (D-VA), as the new U.S. special envoy for Africa's Great Lakes region and to the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
Regional Power, Profit Obstruct Peace in South Sudan
June 10, 2015 --- Entangled and competing regional interests are undermining efforts to end the civil war in South Sudan, according to a report published today by the Enough Project. “Neighborhood Watch: Mobilizing Regional Action for Peace in South Sudan” is the first in a new “Political Economy of African Wars” series, launched by Enough’s founding director John Prendergast. The series will feature in-depth, field research-driven reports on dynamics of power and profit fueling armed conflicts in the Horn, East and Central Africa ...
Brandeis University Goes Conflict-Free
May 21, 2015 - Student activists are celebrating the announcement from Brandeis University of a new policy to ensure computers and other electronic equipment they purchase are not connected to killing, child abductions, and sexual violence in the mining sector of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
Breaking: $400 Million Congo Gold Trade Supporting Army Commanders, Rebel Warlords
April 30, 2015 – A trade in illegally mined and smuggled “conflict gold” is fueling both high-level military corruption and violent rebel groups in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to a new report by the Enough Project ...
