Here at Enough, we often swap emails with interesting articles and feature stories that we come across in our favorite publications and on our favorite websites. We wanted to share some of these stories with you as part of our effort to keep you up to date on what you need to know in the world of anti-genocide and crimes against humanity work.

Enough Project Fellow Hawa Salih is featured in this story "Escape to Obscurity," about life as a Darfuri refugee who has fled to America.

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Here at Enough, we often swap emails with interesting articles and feature stories that we come across in our favorite publications and on our favorite websites. We wanted to share some of these stories with you as part of our effort to keep you up to date on what you need to know in the world of anti-genocide and crimes against humanity work.

This map from Foreign Policy illustrates the U.S. military's presence in Africa. Clicking on each point on the map yields information on what U.S. troops, equipment, or personnel are at each location and what they're doing in that country.

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Darfur is suffering its worst humanitarian crisis in years. Since the beginning of 2013, over 200,000 people have been displaced by what the government of Sudan dismisses as "inter-communal" violence. Ten years after the first reports of genocide trickled out of Darfur, an eerie echo of the past is sweeping across the region. The government of Sudan would like the world to believe that Darfur is plagued by intractable inter-tribal hatreds that inevitably lead to violent destabilizing conflict.

But in a new report, "Darfur's Gold Rush: State-Sponsored Atrocities 10 Years After the Genocide," Enough Project Senior Advisor Omer Ismail and I challenge that descriptive framework. Our research shows that government-armed Abbala militias' recent power play to displace the Beni Hussein people and ...

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A new report from the Satellite Sentinel Project, or SSP, confirms that Sudan and South Sudan have violated recent peace agreements by positioning troops in what is supposed to be a 12-mile (20-kilometer) demilitarized buffer zone along their contested border. Neither the joint border-verification mechanism established by both countries, nor the United Nations peacekeeping mission tasked with monitoring the demilitarized buffer zone has detected these violations.

In the report, "Broken Agreement: Violations in the Demilitarized Border Zone by Sudan and South Sudan," DigitalGlobe satellite imagery from Heglig and Kiir Adem proves that both governments violated their obligations under the March 2013 treaty in which they agreed to implement September 2012 peace agreements.

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Here at Enough, we often swap emails with interesting articles and feature stories that we come across in our favorite publications and on our favorite websites. We wanted to share some of these stories with you as part of our effort to keep you up to date on what you need to know in the world of anti-genocide and crimes against humanity work.

In "The Child Soldier Who traded His Machete For a Pair of Scissors," Claude Mugisha, a former child soldier, explains how he exchanged his AK-47 to become a barber. Mugisha fought in a local Congolese militia and lived in the bush for 10 years until he attended a U.N.-run rehabilitation and repatriation program. Claude reflects on his experience and says, "People think former child soldiers are somehow damaged and deranged and often avoid us. It's ...

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The conflict-free movement is gaining momentum worldwide, with the newest development happening in Canada. In March 2013, New Democrat Foreign Affairs Critic Paul Dewar introduced a comprehensive conflict-free mineral bill to the Canadian Parliament. Bill C-486 requires companies to regularly report how they obtain their supply of minerals such as gold, tin, tungsten, and tantalum from Central Africa, particularly Congo.

"The conflict minerals that end up in many products like cell phones and game consoles are responsible for funding and fuelling a war that has killed more than 5 million people in the Congo," Dewar stated after introducing the bill. "I was in the Congo four years ago at Easter. I know that the Congo seems as far away from Canada as you can be, but we have the power here ...

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This op-ed was co-authored with Rep. Barbara Lee and originally appeared on the Huffington Post.

As we gather to mark April as Genocide Awareness month, to recognize atrocities across the world and throughout history, it's important not just to recognize the past, but to learn from it.

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Rumors circulated last week that the M23 rebel group reportedly signed an agreement with eleven other armed groups on April 21, 2013. The groups are said to include FAP-Nyatura, FDC, FPC-AP, FPD, Mai-Mai Cheka, MPA, M26, PARECO Lafontaine, PRM, URDC, and Vutura. They allegedly agreed on mutual defense - an armed attack against any one of them would be considered an attack against them all - in response to an attack by the forthcoming United Nations Foreign Intervention Brigade, or FIB.

Whether or not these rumors are true, one thing is clear: the Kivus will witness a renewed militarization and, if not carefully handled on all sides, potential resulting violence and unrest will negatively impact the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians.

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On Friday, April 26, The Resolve LRA Crisis Initiative released a report "Hidden in Plain Sight," documenting the renewal of Sudan's support to the Lord's Resistance Army, or LRA, from 2009 until February 2013.

The report, co-produced by The Resolve, the Enough Project, and Invisible Children, reveals that Sudan is harboring the LRA in the Kafia Kingi area that straddles the disputed Sudan-South Sudan border. on the report is based on interviews conducted with former LRA members, civil society leaders in LRA-affected areas, as well as with representatives from the United Nations, the African Union, and governments and military forces in the region.

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Here at Enough, we often swap emails with interesting articles and feature stories that we come across in our favorite publications and on our favorite websites. We wanted to share some of these stories with you as part of our effort to keep you up to date on what you need to know in the world of anti-genocide and crimes against humanity work.

There Is a Country, a new book now available for pre-order at the McSweeney's store, is a collection of eight stories by South Sudanese authors. This is the first collection of stories from the new country. "In vivid, gripping prose, There Is a Country's stories explore youth and love, life and death: a first glimpse of what South Sudanese literature has to offer."

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