November 2009

A powerful segment on CBS’ 60 Minutes last night demonstrated with stark clarity how the trade in conflict gold is a major source of funding for armed groups that target civilian populations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The supply chain in gold can be made conflict-free through the same three steps that Enough has recommended for other conflict minerals.

Today, an important deadline in the Sudan peace process has come and gone, largely because the ruling NCP continues to negotiate in bad faith. In today’s newly-released strategy paper, “What To Do About Sudan Now?”, Enough calls for the Obama administration to follow through on its own policy by responding to the NCP’s actions with a set of multilateral consequences.  Read More »

“No one wants to give up Malakal,” a Sudanese civil society leader from the Shilluk ethnic group told me. Today, almost five years after the Comprehensive Peace Agreement that ended this war was signed, Malakal remains a strategic town that neither the Khartoum regime nor the semi-autonomous Government of Southern Sudan seem ready to relinquish without a fight.

The Sudanese government is restricting and threatening international peacekeepers’ activities in Darfur in violation of an agreement signed by both parties, said a United Nations report released Monday.  Read More »