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Mollie Zapata is the Online Coordinator at the Enough Project. Prior to joining Enough, Mollie worked at National Geographic Television as the series/science/nature department coordinator. In addition to Enough, Mollie volunteers through the Refugee Assistance Program in Washington, D.C. to help assimilate Congolese refugees resettling in the United States. In college she studied abroad in Niger, and worked for Rencontre et Action, a microfinance organization that provides lending and savings bank services to impoverished women. Mollie graduated summa cum laude from Boston University with a degree in international relations, speaks French, and is learning Swahili.

 

5 Stories You May Have Missed This Week

Posted by Mollie Zapata on May 17, 2013
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A weekly round-up of must-read stories, posted every Friday.  Read More »

5 Stories You May Have Missed This Week

Posted by Mollie Zapata on May 10, 2013
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A weekly round-up of must-read stories, posted every Friday.  Read More »

New Satellite Imagery Confirms Broken Agreements Along the Sudan/South Sudan Border

Posted by Mollie Zapata on May 07, 2013
Broken Agreements

A new report from the Satellite Sentinel Project, or SSP, confirms that Sudan and South Sudan have violated recent peace agreements by positioning troops in what is supposed to be a 12-mile (20-kilometer) demilitarized buffer zone along their contested border. Neither the joint border-verification mechanism established by both countries, nor the United Nations peacekeeping mission tasked with monitoring the demilitarized buffer zone has detected these violations.  Read More »

5 Stories You May Have Missed This Week

Posted by Mollie Zapata on Apr 27, 2013
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A weekly round-up of must-read stories, posted every Friday (or Saturday).   Read More »

5 Stories You Might Have Missed This Week

Posted by Mollie Zapata on Apr 12, 2013
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A weekly round-up of must-read stories, posted every Friday.   Read More »

5 Stories You Might Have Missed This Week

Posted by Mollie Zapata on Apr 05, 2013
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A weekly round-up of must-read stories, posted every Friday.  Read More »

Two Years of Satellite Evidence of the Sudanese Government’s War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, and Torture

Posted by Mollie Zapata on Apr 03, 2013
Arichitects of Atrocity Cover

Over the past two years, the Satellite Sentinel Project, or SSP, has had its eyes – a constellation of DigitalGlobe satellites – on the border between the Sudans, watching for, reporting on, and alerting policy makers and the public to evidence of mass atrocities, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.
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Enough 101: What is the Abyei Area and Why is it Disputed?

Posted by Mollie Zapata on Jan 15, 2013

This week's post in the series Enough 101 looks at the history of Abyei, an area contested by Sudan and South Sudan.  Read More »

‘Crime Against Humanity’: Sudan Burns 26 Nuban Villages Across 54 Square Miles

Posted by Mollie Zapata on Dec 06, 2012

"Razing a village is a war crime, and the torching of now at least 26 Nuban villages, plus the systematic destruction of crops and grasslands for cattle, is a crime against humanity,” said George Clooney, Co-founder of Satellite Sentinel Project. “What we’re seeing here is a widespread campaign of village and crop burning.”  Read More »

Thirteen Villages Burned in Sudan

Posted by Mollie Zapata on Nov 30, 2012
Satellite imagery of burned area in al Hoi,South Kordofan,Sudan.

Thirteen villages were deliberately burned across a 30-square mile area in the Nuba Mountains between November 17 and November 22, 2012, according to a new Satellite Sentinel Project, or SSP, report.  Read More »

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