Today, the Enough Project released a report documenting the links between cobalt mining, corruption, and human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo). The report, “Powering Down Corruption: Tackling Transparency and Human Rights Risks from Congo’s Cobalt Mines to Global Supply Chains,” is based on findings from interviews both inside and outside Congo with over […]

En français ci-dessous. On September 14, 2018, The Sentry published an investigative report examining allegations of corruption and other red flags in the Democratic Republic of  Congo’s (Congo) current electoral process.  The report – which is now available in French – calls for increased financial pressures, in the form of anti-money laundering measures, more robust implementation of existing sanctions, […]

Today, John Prendergast, Co-Founder of The Sentry and Founding Director of the Enough Project, is the featured guest author for Nicholas Kristof’s New York Times Sunday newsletter. In his essay, John explains why we’re using the wrong approach to address some of the world’s deadliest conflicts: It is unchecked greed that created this “looting machine” in East and […]

This blog post was originally published in the International Forum for Democratic Studies’ Power 3.0 and was written by The Sentry’s Senior Legal Analyst Holly Dranginis and Senior Investigator Debra LaPrevotte. As the former chief of staff of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army, James Hoth Mai is a hardened military general who oversaw troops in […]

A new policy brief published today by the Enough Project urges the European Union to more clearly and consistently assert leadership and develop much-needed financial leverage that could support a truly reinvigorated peace process in South Sudan, a country hijacked by corrupt elites and marred by brutal conflict and urgent humanitarian crises. In “EuroPressure: EU […]

Note: This blog contains excerpts from the report “Breaking Out of the Spiral in South Sudan: Anti-Money Laundering, Network Sanctions, and a New Peacemaking Architecture” Today, the Enough Project published “Breaking Out of the Spiral in South Sudan: Anti-Money Laundering, Network Sanctions, and a New Peacemaking Architecture.” In this new report, authors Brian Adeba, Brad Brooks-Rubin, John […]

Note: This blog contains excerpts from the report “Strategic Pressure: A Blueprint for Addressing New Threats and Supporting Democratic Change in the DRC.” Today, the Enough Project published “Strategic Pressure: A Blueprint for Addressing New Threats and Supporting Democratic Change in the DRC,” by Founding Director John Prendergast and Deputy Policy Director Sasha Lezhnev. The report recommends […]

Note: This blog contains excerpts from the policy brief. In a new brief published today, The Missing Track: The case for a new policy framework between the United States and Sudan, the Enough Project lays out a detailed plan for how the Trump administration can develop and implement a new track of engagement with Sudan […]

Note: This blog includes excerpts from the brief. A new policy brief released today by The Sentry Policy Director and Enough Project Policy Advisor Brad Brooks-Rubin, “Yes, We Have Leverage: A Playbook for Immediate and Long-Term Financial Pressures to Address Violent Kleptocracies in East and Central Africa,” summarizes more than 15 different options that the […]

Today, Enough’s initiative The Sentry published its latest report, Making a Fortune While Making a Famine: The Illustrative Case of a South Sudanese General. It examines documents concerning Lt. Gen. Malek Reuben Riak, who was recently promoted to deputy chief of defense staff, and is one of the senior generals that the U.N. Security Council’s […]

By Ruben de Koning Pour la version francaise, voir ci-dessous In 2016, the United States and the European Union announced targeted sanctions against a total of nine Congolese individuals deemed most responsible for violent repression of protests against President Kabila’s moves to cling to power beyond his constitutional term limits. On the last day of […]

Today, the Enough Project released a new report, Weapons of Mass Corruption: How corruption in South Sudan’s military undermines the world’s newest country. This fifth installment of the Political Economy of African Wars Series describes the system of corruption within the South Sudanese army (the Sudan People’s Liberation Army, SPLA). The report shows how corruption […]

This week, Enough Project released a policy brief, “Five Lessons from a Sanctions Practitioner,” by renowned threat finance specialist Peter Harrell. The brief argues that, done right, sanctions can have enormous impact. Sanctions have forced adversaries to the negotiating table, frozen the assets of warlords and kleptocrats, and deterred rogue states and rogue leaders from […]

By Sentry Team On July 27, the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced that they are expanding the scope of the Geographic Targeting Orders (GTO) issued earlier this year on real estate transactions to now include all New York City boroughs and select counties in Florida, California, and Texas. In January, FinCEN issued GTOs […]

By Sentry Team The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is putting a new priority on accountability for individuals within companies when those companies break the law — and has enacted a new set of protocols to help make that happen in more of its cases. Often a company is fined or sanctioned, but those actual […]

This Thursday, May 12, UK Prime Minister David Cameron will host an international anti-corruption summit in London. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is scheduled to attend the summit, which will bring together high-level government representatives, business leaders and civil society to step up international efforts to address corruption. Last week the White House announced a several steps the U.S. will […]

By Sentry Team A U.K. court recently dismissed a claim made by the Government of Djibouti against a powerful businessman who had fallen out of favor with the government. The politically-connected businessman, Abdourahman Mohamed Mahmoud Boreh, is credited with playing an integral role in the development of the nation’s ports, oil storage, and duty free […]

By Sentry Team In a recent article in the New Statesman, author James Nickerson focuses on the issue of money laundering in London and the United Kingdom. With an estimated £48 billion laundered through the UK, accounting for 2 percent of GDP, London is now the world’s leading place for corruption-based money laundering, he writes. […]

By Sentry Team Soon after South Sudan devalued its currency in December 2015, the central bank authorized the auction of U.S dollars to commercial banks to offset the cost of devaluation which had caused the South Sudanese pound to lose its value by 84 percent. Millions of dollars were auctioned to the commercial banks as […]

By Sentry Team The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued an important, if complicated, penalty last week against Barclay’s Bank for processing transactions related to sanctioned entities in Zimbabwe.  Although the total amount, $2.49 million, pales in comparison to some of the massive penalties the agency has issued against banks in recent years, this […]