Press Releases

All signs indicate that Sudan, Africa’s largest state, will very soon split in two – either peacefully or violently. The Obama administration must do its utmost to prevent a return to full-scale war in Sudan, argues a new report from the Enough Project at the Center for American Progress.

 The Enough Project confirms that a contingent of the deadly Lord’s Resistance Army, or LRA, has taken refuge in areas of south Darfur, Sudan, controlled by the Government of Sudan. The possibility of rekindled collaboration between LRA leader Joseph Kony and Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir—both wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court, or ICC—should alarm policymakers and demands urgent international investigation and response.

The Enough Project confirms that a contingent of the deadly Lord’s Resistance Army, or LRA, has taken refuge in areas of south Darfur, Sudan, controlled by the Government of Sudan. The possibility of rekindled collaboration between LRA leader Joseph Kony and Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir—both wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court, or ICC—should alarm policymakers and demands urgent international investigation and response.

The Enough Project at the Center for American Progress today released a new report, ‘A Peace Process Play-by-Play,’ highlighting the risks and potential rewards of the preliminary peace agreement reached between the government of Sudan and the rebel group Justice and Equality Movement, or JEM. The report gives particular consideration to the strategic concerns of key players to the talks.

The Enough Project and the Genocide Intervention Network today released a statement concerning the decision by the International Criminal Court, or ICC, which re-opens the possibility of Genocide charges against Sudan’s President Bashir.

The Enough Project today released statements concerning the Obama administration’s apparent concern about the flow of illegal arms to South Sudan:

This week senior U.S. Government officials will meet to review Sudan policy. In an open letter to President Barack Obama's deputies, the Enough Project makes the case that Sudan is dangerously close to sliding back to war and recommends a course of action marked by much deeper diplomatic engagement, backed by more assiduous efforts to build a multilateral coalition of countries willing to impose consequences on those undermining the path to peace in Sudan.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In its Sudan policy review completed in mid-October 2009, the Obama administration indicated it would regularly assess the progress of peace in Sudan—or lack thereof. However, the administration has not publicly disclosed precisely what benchmarks it is applying to assess progress in Sudan, even as it begins its official review process this month and as tensions increase with the coming April national elections, and with the January 2011 referendum on independence for Southern Sudan rapidly approaching.

The signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, or CPA, five years ago was a monumental achievement by the Sudanese parties and by the international community. The CPA ended more than two decades of civil war between Sudan's North and South and set forth a roadmap and timetable for the democratic transformation of the country.

However, five years after the peace was signed, the notion of democratic transformation of Sudan has been abandoned by the ruling National Congress Party and the Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement, and the potential for a return to all-out war before or after the 2011 self-determination referendum for southern Sudan is more real than ever.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The coming year represents a volatile time for the people of Sudan, with countrywide elections scheduled for April 2010, and a referendum on the secession of southern Sudan in January 2011. The Administration must work with international partners to hold the parties, especially Khartoum, accountable for lack of progress.

Save Darfur Coalition, American Jewish World Service and the Enough Project and the Center for America Progress respond:

In a December 7 statement, Nevada-based Niotan Inc. claimed that it "does not source tantalum from the Democratic Republic of the Congo" and denied reports suggesting that it is linked to conflict minerals originating in eastern Congo.

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  The Enough Project at the Center for American Progress today released the following statement in reaction to news that the government of Sudan had arrested several members of the opposition political party, the SPLM:

"It was fanciful of the United States and other donor nations to think that the ruling National Congress Party (NCP), which has ruled Sudan with an iron fist and tolerated no peaceful dissent, would suddenly loosen its grip and allow peaceful elections and their necessary precursor: peaceful freedom of assembly," said Enough Co-founder John Prendergast.

WASHINGTON, D.C– The statement by Sudan's U.N. Ambassador, Abdalmahmoud Abdalhaleem, in reaction to our new report demonstrates the dangerous self-constructed reality in which the National Congress Party (NCP) continues to live. We are concerned by the Ambassador’s statements which demonstrate Khartoum’s continued efforts to downplay the dire situation on the ground in Sudan, undermine existing negotiations, and sidestep its primary responsibility for this state of affairs.