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On Friday, May 15, the RAISE Hope for Congo campaign had it's final activist call of the three-month Congo Challenge. The call featured the director of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's Committee on Conscience, Michael Abramowitz, East Africa bureau chief for The New York Times, Jeffrey Gettleman, and the Enough Project's own blogger, Laura Heaton. Listen now and learn how you can engage the media to RAISE Hope for Congo.

Listen the activist call here.

President Barack Obama has inherited a dangerous and fast-moving crisis in Somalia—one with profound implications for regional and international security. While some within the new administration will be tempted to continue to place short-term counterterrorism goals ahead of a more comprehensive strategy approach as was done during the Bush administration, the shortcomings of this approach are abundantly clear: violent extremism and anti-Americanism are now rife in Somalia due in large part to the blowback from policies that focused too narrowly on counterterrorism objectives. The new U.S. national security team must make a clean break by defining and implementing a long-term strategy to support the development of an inclusive Somali government. Read the full strategy paper here.