George Clooney has donated $1 million to combat war crimes and corruption in Africa. The Clooney Foundation for Justice on Wednesday announced the gift to the Sentry, an investigative initiative that Clooney co-founded to uncover the financial networks behind conflicts in Africa. In a statement, Clooney said the group’s focus is “to make sure war […]

George Clooney has announced the Clooney Foundation for Justice gave $1 million to tackle war crimes and corruption in Africa. The initiative kicks off the Sentry’s Making War Criminals Pay fundraising campaign to increase its production of dossiers focused on war criminals and their financial networks. Co-founded by Clooney, the Sentry is a team of policy analysts […]

Hollywood actor George Clooney has given $1m (£750,000) to The Sentry campaign group to investigate people who finance and benefit from conflict in Africa. In a statement, he said: Our focus is to make sure that war crimes don’t pay. We want to make it more difficult for those willing to kill en masse to […]

One of the most prominent banks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo may have been diverting assets to enable financiers of terrorism avoid U.S. sanctions, an explosive new report says. The report, entitled “The Terrorists’ Treasury,” was published Monday by The Sentry, an initiative of actor George Clooney and human rights activist John Prendergast. It raises […]

“In September there was no fuel anywhere,” Samson Kamuya says. The exhausted 45-year-old hangs his head. He’s been waiting four days at a gas station in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, to no avail. Wedged among hundreds of cars, trucks and desperate civilians carrying empty jerry cans, he says the fuel situation is unlike anything he’s […]

A senior South Sudanese army official used his position to accumulate millions of dollars through personal business dealing while facilitating a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions, a Washington-based group said. The Sentry said Lt. Gen. Malek Reuben Riak, South Sudan army (SPLA) deputy chief of defence force for […]

« Se créer une fortune en créant une famine », c’est le titre d’une enquête publiée ce mercredi 31 mai par The Sentry, l’équipe d’investigation du collectif américain Enough Project, qui lutte pour la fin des conflits en Afrique. Le collectif y met en lumière les pratiques financières et commerciales douteuses d’un général de l’armée […]

A top South Sudanese army general has amassed a fortune through questionable business deals while his country is facing war and famine, a non-governmental organization said on Wednesday. Deputy Chief of Defence Staff Malek Reuben Riak has offshored millions of dollars through deals in energy, construction and explosives, said The Sentry, which investigates the financing […]

Más de 100.000 personas se mueren de hambre. Millones no saben qué (o si) comerán mañana. Es Sudán del Sur, un país devastado por la necesidad y la violencia (o al revés). Y mientras tanto, algunos generales y altos cargos, que dirigen lo que una comisión de Naciones Unidas ha calificado de “depuración étnica” organizada, se forran. […]

A top commander in South Sudan’s People’s Liberation Army managed to embezzle and launder millions from the world’s youngest state with the help of a U.S. dollar-denominated account, a global advocacy group claimed in a report Wednesday. Using his influence to steer commerce towards private companies under his control, Lieutenant General Malek Reuben Riak allegedly […]

Samtidig som befolkningen står overfor den verste hungerkatastrofen i nyere historie, skapte visesjefen for forsvarsstaben Malek Reuben Riak seg en formue, hevder organisasjonen i en fersk rapport. En av The Sentrys grunnleggere er John Prendergast, en internasjonalt anerkjent Sudan-ekspert. I rapporten «Making a Fortune While Making a Famine» hevder organisasjonen at Reuben har sendt millioner […]

top South Sudan army official has used his position to accumulate millions of dollars through his personal business, while helping to orchestrate a conflict that has resulted in famine, according to a new report by a Washington-based human rights group. Lt. Gen. Malek Reuben Riak, the SPLA’s deputy chief of defense force for operations, accumulated […]

… A scathing report from Washington-based rights group The Sentry following a two-year investigation offers insight as to why the imploding nation is resisting outside help and seemingly exacerbating its own crisis. It concludes that top government officials have orchestrated, perpetuated and exploited the chaos in South Sudan to accumulate vast fortunes by looting billions of dollars from […]

Famine in South Sudan could be brought to an end if world leaders would step in and keep local politicians from fighting over and wasting funds that could help feed the starving nation, actor George Clooney said in a newspaper opinion piece on Thursday. Describing the famine as “government-made,” Clooney said South Sudan’s political elite […]

….But look around most of South Sudan and you won’t see any of that. The reason? The oil revenue was stolen. Top officials have been accused of amassing fortunes, and they and their families were often spotted in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya next door, driving the snazziest cars — $100,000 Land Rovers and gleaming […]

The Sentry’s J.R. Mailey speaks with the Cocktail Banter’s Jana Gates Chapman about the “War Crimes Shouldn’t Pay” report. Click here to listen to the episode.

The results of a two-year investigation into kleptocracy in South Sudan, published this month by a group called the Sentry, lifts the veil on widespread plundering of the young nation by its leaders. The investigationfound that family members of top officials often live abroad in multimillion-dollar mansions, stay in five-star hotels, reap the benefits of shady […]

Two detailed reports last week on corruption and rights abuses by the Juba government and its adversaries could reinvigorate the peace agreement signed over a year ago. An investigation by a United Nations Panel of Experts (PoE), still unpublished, is uncharacteristically forthright in its criticism, particularly of the government of President Salva Kiir Mayardit. Click […]

As thousands are killed, maimed and displaced by the war in South Sudan, the leaders at the centre of the conflict are reaping financially, reveals a new report released The Sentry, a corruption investigator in Africa. The report written chronicles in great detail how South Sudanese leaders are profiteering from the ongoing civil war, which […]

Actor and activist is trying to stop the violence and profiteering in the world’s newest nation. Watch the video on Fox News.