Enough Said

In a recent segment on the CBS news program, 60 Minutes, correspondent Lara Logan reported on the status of “one of the biggest manhunts that’s ever taken place” – the search for Joseph Kony. The fifteen-minute segment covered the scope of atrocities that continue to be committed by Joseph Kony and his fighters, known as the Lord’s Resistance Army, or LRA.  LRA fighters maim, rape, and brutally murder civilians, and the army is comprised of a force that, sadly, includes “one of the biggest armies of child soldiers in history.”  Read More »

Four years ago, electronics companies gave us many excuses for why digging into their supply chains to find conflict minerals was too difficult. “This is too ambitious,” they said. “We have thousands of suppliers, how can we know our smelters?”   Read More »

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This year’s Samuel Dash Conference on Human Rights at Georgetown Law focused on “Jurisdiction for Mass Atrocities.” The April 8 conference included a panel discussing the Enough Project-supported experiential learning course, which was highlighted in an article published April 15 by Georgetown Law.   Read More »

Nadia Taha is a producer at Sudan Radio Service, or SRS, based in Nairobi, Kenya. We met in March to talk about her childhood in Darfur, activism at university in Khartoum, and work as the first female reporter with SRS. This Q&A is excerpted from our conversation.  Read More »

On Tuesday, April 16, John Prendergast, Co-founder the Enough Project, testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs on the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
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The Small Arms Survey, an independent Swiss research group, released a report suggesting that the Sudanese government is arming David Yau Yau’s militia in Jonglei state, South Sudan. This supplements former allegations by the U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, or UNMISS, and the government of South Sudan that Sudan is supplying arms to the Yau Yau rebellion to destabilize the region. Despite the recent normalization of bilateral relations between Sudan and South Sudan, South Sudan’s Government Spokesman Barnaba Marial Benjamin accused Sudan of supporting Yau Yau’s rebellion to increase insecurity in Pibor Town, Jonglei. As Pibor borders Ethiopia, this would impede South Sudan’s plans to build an oil pipeline through Ethiopia. In turn, a rebellion would force South Sudan to continue relying on transit routes through Sudan.  Read More »

Guest blogger Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D., is the Founder and Executive Director of World Without Genocide at William Mitchell College of Law.  Read More »

This morning the Wall Street Journal published an exposé on the conflict gold trade from eastern Congo, which is worth an estimated $285-400 million per year. The article details the lucrative trade in conflict gold as it is transported from mines in eastern Congo to smugglers in Uganda and Burundi and then to jewelers and dealers in Dubai and India. As the piece highlights, conflict gold is an increasingly important issue for jewelers and the gold industry, as there now exists a “shadowy chain of smuggled gold that stretches from the conflict zones of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the markets of Dubai and jewelry shops around the world.”  Read More »

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