Reports
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Keeping Our Word: Fulfilling the Mandate to Protect Civilians in Darfur
by Jerry Fowler and John Prendergast
Almost a year has passed since the United Nations Security Council approved a civilian protection force for Darfur. But the United Nations-African Union mission in Darfur, known as UNAMID, is stunted. Only one-third of the troops are deployed, critical gaps exist in equipment and logistical support and the force has been repeatedly attacked. The Sudanese government systematically obstructs full deployment with total impunity. -
Past Due: Remove the FDLR from Eastern Congo
by Rebecca Feeley and Colin Thomas-Jensen
In 1994, at Rwanda’s moment of greatest need, the world turned its back. The Rwandan genocide and the subsequent flight of the genocidaires into the Democratic Republic of the Congo spawned eastern Congo’s complex crisis—one that has led to the deaths of 5.4 million Congolese and threatens the future of millions more. The world has had 14 years to take action against the perpetrators of the genocide and those who now terrorize eastern Congo in their name, but the international response remains sorely inadequate. -
Abyei Aflame: An Update From the Field
by Roger Winter
Five weeks after ENOUGH issued its report “Sounding the Alarm on Abyei” the town of Abyei has ceased to exist. Brigade 31 of the Sudanese Armed Forces, or SAF, has displaced the entire civilian population and burned Abyei’s market and housing to the ground. These events were predicted, and absent effective word and action, they became inevitable. Somehow, the government of the United States of America missed all the signals—again. -
Re-Release: Creating a Peace to Keep in Darfur - A Joint Report by the ENOUGH Project and the Save Darfur Coalition
by John Prendergast and Jerry Fowler, with contributions from Omer Ismail, Colin Thomas-Jensen, Amjad Atallah, Amir Osman and Gayle Smith.
The unprecedented attack on a suburb of Khartoum by the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) demonstrates once again the urgent need for a credible and inclusive peace process to resolve the crisis in Darfur. It is too early to predict what effect the attack will have on the political and military dynamics of the conflict going forward, but Sudan's ruling National Congress Party is making clear that its response will focus on civilians. The government and its proxies are launching a new round of assaults against civilian targets in Darfur and we are receiving credible reports of arrests, beatings, disappearances, and executions of Darfuri civilians (particularly Zaghawa) in Khartoum and Omdurman. To prevent the further deterioration of the volatile situation in Sudan, ENOUGH and the Save Darfur Coalition urge the U.S. government and the international community to take immediate steps to launch and sustain an all-encompassing peace process that addresses the local and national issues that are fueling conflict. -
Mugabe's Revenge: Halting the Violence in Zimbabwe
by Jamal Jafari
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has never been so close to losing power, and appears willing to use all means available to physically beat his opponents into submission. As the international community considers its response to the complex crisis in Zimbabwe, its first order of business must be to stop the violence. -
A New Peace Strategy for Northern Uganda and the LRA
by Julia Spiegel and John Prendergast
This paper presents a new strategy to bring an end to the LRA threat in northern Uganda and the surrounding region: the peace strategy must shift from one that relies solely on negotiations to one that develops leverage through military planning, tries to press Kony to make a choice about his future, and pushes forward a development and security strategy that enables northern Ugandans to return voluntarily. -
15 Years After Black Hawk Down: Somalia's Chance?
by John Prendergast
It has been almost 15 years since Somali militias shot down two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters over the capital Mogadishu and killed 18 American servicemen in a battle that also killed more than 1,000 Somalis.
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