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07.21.15
AFP: Project to Probe Financing of African Wars
Hollywood actor George Clooney launched a new initiative on Monday aimed at ending conflicts in South Sudan and elsewhere in Africa by tracking the money involved.
The Sentry, founded by Clooney and John Prendergast of the Enough Project advocacy group, will investigate the ways conflicts in South Sudan, Sudan, the Central African Republic and Democratic Republic of Congo are financed.
“Real leverage for peace and human rights will come when the people who benefit from war will pay a price for the damage they cause,” the 54-year old Oscar-winner, who has a long history of working as an advocate for peace in Sudan and South Sudan, said in a statement.
Prendergast, a former Africa director at the US National Security Council turned human rights activist, said “conventional tools of diplomacy” have so far failed and that “new efforts must centre on how to make war more costly than peace”.
