October 3, 2008: The seizure of a Ukrainian vessel with military shipment to the Kenyan army is the latest in a spike of attacks on shipping by pirates on the Somalia ocean front who since January have ransomed close to three dozens of ships.
The Gulf of Aden that sits strategically in the Arabian sea, sandwiched between Yemen and Somalia, is an important waterway and its strangling by insurgents will have international trade as the first culprit.
An international human rights organization based in the United States is warning that relations between Zimbabwe and China are in the future likely to be increasingly strained. The Enough Project – an alliance of scores of advocacy organizations from all over the world – says Zimbabwe’s recent power-sharing agreement could result in a realignment of Beijing’s relationship with Harare. China has in recent years given President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF government significant political and economic support. Humanitarian groups say this has exacerbated Zimbabweans’ suffering.
ENOUGH Project (Washington, DC)
PRESS RELEASE
24 September 2008
Posted to the web 24 September 2008
As the United Nations General Assembly meets this week in New York, the crisis in Sudan is front and center on the agenda. Following the International Criminal Court, or ICC, chief prosecutor’s request for an arrest warrant against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese government launched a diplomatic offensive to pressure the United Nations Security Council to suspend the ICC investigation.
http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/08/05/us-strategy-in-somalia-whac-a-mole/
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.
U.N.-sponsored talks in Djibouti aimed at starting a reconciliation process between Somalia's secular government and Islamist-led rivals ended last week without a breakthrough. A political reconciliation is considered key to restoring stability in the war-ravaged nation. But as VOA Correspondent Alisha Ryu reports from our East Africa Bureau in Nairobi, growing divisions within the warring parties are complicating peace efforts as Somalia continues to sink deeper into an unprecedented humanitarian crisis.
The world food crisis and escalating violence have combined to put Somalia on the brink of famine.
The story includes clips from an interview with ENOUGH Policy Advisor, Colin Thomas-Jensen.
To watch the video, click here.
Facing History and Ourselves and Enough have partnered to create free Darfur curriculum for U.S. Schools
Enough Chair John Prendergast joined activist Samantha Power in a unique video cube portrait by artist Lincoln Schatz, featured in the October 2008 issue of Esquire magazine.
Take part in the Christian Companion weekly Thursday 8pm National Conference Call series through October 30th.
Watch the interviews with co-authors Gregory Leffel and Bill Mefford, and 
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to the Don Cheadle & John Prendergast interview on Darfur and their book, Not on Our Watch.
