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John Prendergast and Brian Adeba of the Enough Project recently released this statement on stolen assets to be returned to the South Sudanese people. Recently, the president of South Sudan, Salva Kiir, called for global support to recover assets stolen by South Sudanese elites and deposited into foreign bank accounts or spent on purchasing properties […]
Warning signs, grimly reminiscent of previous episodes of genocide, are appearing across Burundi. This tiny nation, nestled within the green hills of equatorial Africa, has hosted disproportionate rates of ethnic violence in the decades since independence. Shortly before its neighbor to the north, Rwanda, collapsed into one of the worst genocides in history, Burundi underwent […]
May 4, 2016 Press Release from Congressman Jim McGovern Original release is posted here WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today a bipartisan group of 120 members of Congress is calling on President Obama to re-prioritize peace, accountability and protection of civilians in Sudan during his final year in office. The bipartisan letter is led by Congressmen Jim […]
April 29, 2016 Mr. Gerard Baker Editor in Chief The Wall Street Journal 1211 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10036 Dear Mr. Baker, We write to express our outrage over the genocide denial advertisement published in The Wall Street Journal on April 20, 2016. As you may know, April 24 is the official […]
In the article below Eric Reeves elaborates on the situation of the Darfuri refugees in Eastern Chad. Eric Reeves is a Professor of English Language and Literature at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts and has been writing about Sudan for more than 16 years. Reeves makes the case that the UN has to make emergency […]
Years of conflict in the Central African Republic has generated roughly half a million refugees. With over 100 residents of the nation’s capital, Bangui, killed between last September and November this past year, the violence is likely to continue and to generate further waves of citizens see king refuge. Cameroon has become the preferred destination […]
Last month, an International Criminal Court tribunal found the former vice-president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Jean-Pierre Bemba, guilty of allowing his soldiers to commit rape throughout their 2004 deployment in the Central African Republic (CAR). This verdict, an all-too-rare victory for wartime accountability, came just a few weeks before three UN peacekeepers, all […]
Horrific violence, which has plagued the Central African Republic (CAR) since late 2012, was precipitated by the disintegration of the state, a plunge into a survival economy, and widening divides between ethno-religious groups. In addition to the CAR government, two other belligerents emerged in this conflict – the Muslim Séléka rebel movement (who initiated the […]
On March 30, the Central African Republic will usher in a new presidential era as sectarian tensions threaten to unravel the nation’s hard-earned peace. Faustin-Archange Touadera, former prime minister, and current president-elect will inherit a nation teetering on the edge of renewed violence. Mr. Touadera’s career in national politics began in January 2008 when the […]
Thanks to our friends at the Enough Project for this post. Read more about modernizing a sanctions approach for Sudan here. Many of us have worked together for years now to stop the atrocities being perpetrated against the people of Sudan. Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir continues to commit abuses against his own people throughout Darfur, […]