Laura Heaton and Maggie Fick's blog

As the Enough Said writer/editor and as Enough’s southern Sudan researcher, the two of us recently had the chance to travel together in southern Sudan, charged with the assignment of documenting stories to highlight the situation on the ground for our mostly U.S.-based advocate constituency. Talking to Sudanese people in their hometowns, villages, and the camps they’ve been forced into due to violence made us think about the purpose of advocacy.

Yesterday in Khartoum, the news broke that the two parties to Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement had reached consensus on several critical issues in the contentious, ongoing North-South negotiations related to plans for the April 2010 elections and the South’s self-determination referendum in 2011. Here's how some influentials in Juba reacted.  Read More »

Given the enormously high stakes in Sudan—a national election, largely funded by the U.S., slated for April next year that could dissolve into violence, and a referendum in 2011 that will give the South the chance to vote to become an independent country—it’s critically important that the Obama administration strike the right tone in its policy and diplomatic strategy toward Sudan, at a time when the country could easily slide back into a hot war within the next 18 months.

Enough, along with the other organizations leading the ongoing Sudan Now campaign, sent an open letter to President Obama today that underlines the major problem that we see with the administration’s emerging policy  Read More »