Sudan Now

On Thursday, South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir issued a press statement outlining the reasons why the government of the Republic of South Sudan, or RSS, recently rejected a deal ostensibly designed to avoid the complete shutdown of oil production in South Sudan. Kiir further stressed that lasting peace between Sudan and South Sudan will not be found in an agreement concerning oil alone, but, rather, must be built atop resolutions to outstanding issues related to the disputed Abyei area and the North-South border, in addition to the economic and oil concerns that have recently stalled negotiations between Sudan and the RSS.  Read More »

This week's post in the series Enough 101 looks at the history of the Darfur conflict from late 2010 to present, building off of last week's post that covered 2003 to 2006.  Read More »

Less than two hours after South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit concluded an address to the media and diplomatic core in Juba today, news broke out of yet another bombing by Sudan Armed Forces, or SAF, on South Sudan territory, which Enough reported on earlier today. At the briefing, Salva Kiir warned over escalation of conflict in the bordering areas.  Read More »

Guest contributor Elizabeth Blackney is part of a new alliance of Sudan advocates. She writes about Act for Sudan's purpose and goals, as well as its first action.  Read More »

Dovetailing with the recent U.N. report calling for investigations into human rights violations in Sudan, the Satellite Sentinel Project, or SSP, released a report today that identified three new alleged mass grave sites in and around Kadugli, the state capital of South Kordofan, where heavy fighting has taken place since June.  Read More »

Over two months since the conflagration in the Sudanese border state of South Kordofan broke out, violence continues to persist, and the warring parties have not re-opened dialogue. Despite findings by the United Nations report that suggest war crimes and crimes against humanity have been committed in the conflict, the international response has moved little beyond rhetoric.  Read More »

A new U.N. report published last month caused a few tremors in an already politically precarious region of East Africa. The Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea, which was charged with examining compliance with arms embargoes on the two countries, submitted a meticulously documented 417-page report that sheds light on official Eritrean complicity in an expansive network of illicit activities, ranging from arms trafficking, to people smuggling, to support of armed groups in neighboring countries, and raises questions of Eritrea involvement in the new state of South Sudan.  Read More »

Professor Drew Westen, a professor of psychology and the author of The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation, wrote an opinion piece in the NYT’s Sunday Review last weekend that struck a chord. Broadly, Westen’s commentary looks at how the president’s non-confrontational approach to domestic issues has left people on both sides of the political spectrum feeling like he doesn’t advocate for them. Is it mainly a communications issue, or an inability to take sides?

Eric Cohen of Investors Against Genocide, a partner in Sudan Now, sent around an email with an interesting observation worth sharing.  Read More »

Last night, Enough Co-Founder John Prendergast appeared on “The Colbert Report” to talk about how the new nation of South Sudan arrived on the world stage, and the obstacles the country now has to overcome.  Read More »

Even among people with resources, relatively few Nubans are making their way out of South Kordofan. In the month and a half since the offensive there began, only about 200 or 300 Nubans have arrived in Juba. Enough met with some Nuban aid workers who were in Kadugli when the violence began, and who told harrowing stories about the first days of the crisis and how they managed to escape.  Read More »