Actor George Clooney met with President Obama and Vice President Biden separately on Monday evening to discuss his recent trip to Chad with New York Times columnist Nick Kristof. After Clooney’s meeting, he stated in a press conference that the administration was planning on appointing a high-level, special envoy to Sudan.
STAND is proud to join our friends over at the Enough Project in taking the Congo Challenge. We knew all our readers would want to take the Challenge, too, so we’ve included a blog post from Candice Knezevic at Enough below. Once you sign up to take the challenge, comment and let us know!
In this week’s issue: The International Criminal Court announces plans to issue a decision on Sudan’s Bashir, the U.S. State Department considers a new strategy in Burma, and the Congolese government plans to continue its pursuit of FDLR rebels without Rwanda’s help.
This past week, our friends over at the ENOUGH Project released a new strategy paper on the challenges facing Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), which ended the 20-year civil war between northern and southern Sudan.
Only a week after a successful Day 25, and Day 50 is approaching quickly.
On March 10th, the 50th day of President Obama’s administration, activists across the country will get online and fax a progress report to the Obama administration over the Internet.
As we noted on this blog last month, increases in violence from the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has made DRC one of the deadliest areas in the world for civilians.
In this week’s issue: A false alarm from the ICC amid a continued escalation of violence in Darfur, another attempt to engage the Burmese junta, and a regional reunion in DR Congo.
After the New York Times reported that the ICC had decided to issue an arrest warrant for President Bashir, and before the announcement – less than 24 hours later – that the warrant is still pending (at least for the moment), Sabina Carlson, STAND’s former National Education Coordinator, discussed the news with her friends and colleagues at the Crops Training Center in Yei, South Sudan.
Today marks the 25th day of Obama’s presidency. As we all know, President Obama and his administration face an enormous array of challenges. The administration is dealing with a major economic crisis, two wars, and an increasingly dangerous world. In this kind of environment, it’d be easy for Obama to do very little on Darfur.
But I don’t think that’s going to happen, and it’s because of what I’ve seen STAND activists do this week.
Yesterday, The New York Times reported that the International Criminal Court (ICC) had announced its decision to issue an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon.
Today, it seems that the ICC is trying to control the information leak, issuing a statement denying that any kind of decision has been made.
