Note: This op-ed originally appeared in The Hill and was written by John Prendergast, The Sentry Co-founder and Enough Project Founding Director, and Omer Ismail, Enough Project Senior Policy Advisor. In an unexpected move at the end of last year, Sudan’s President Omar Bashir traveled to Russia and appealed to President Vladimir Putin for protection from the United […]

Note: This op-ed originally appeared in Foreign Affairs and was written by John Prendergast, co-founder of The Sentry, and Sasha Lezhnev, Deputy Director of Policy at the Enough Project. For the last two decades, fighting has plagued the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, resulting in 5.4 million deaths, rampant corruption, and one of the highest rates of […]

Selon le chercheur Ruben de Koning, il faut prendre des mesures contre les entreprises, les banques et les Etats qui permettent aux responsables de violences de s’enrichir. Malek Reuben Riak, puissant général sud-soudanais, est impliqué dans la planification et l’exécution d’une des opérations militaires les plus violentes de la guerre civile actuelle – c’est son travail quotidien. […]

Note: This op-ed originally appeared in TIME and was written by The Sentry co-founders George Clooney and John Prendergast. Earlier this summer, K Street law and lobbying firm Squire Patton Boggs inked a contract with the Sudanese government aimed at removing U.S. sanctions on that regime. The firm will be paid $40,000 a month by a government that’s on the U.S. […]

Note: This op-ed originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal and was written by The Sentry’s co-founder George Clooney. As the most powerful leaders in the world gather in Sicily this week for the annual Group of Seven Summit, they will address today’s most pressing challenges. The list is daunting—terrorism, famine, geopolitical instability and uncontrolled immigration, to name a […]

Note: This op-ed originally appeared in the Daily Beast and was written by The Sentry co-founder John Prendergast. A legacy of corruption and violence has finally caught up to South Sudan, the world’s newest country, as the United Nations has declared a full-blown famine, a rare designation not made for any part of the world since 2011. Multiple UN […]

Note: This op-ed originally appeared in the Washington Post and was written by The Sentry co-founders George Clooney and John Prendergast. Official, U.N.-declared famines are a rare phenomenon. The last one worldwide was six years ago, in Somalia. Famines are declared officially when people have already begun to starve to death. It is the diplomatic equivalent of […]

Note: This op-ed originally appeared in the Guardian and was written by The Sentry co-founders George Clooney and John Prendergast. Almost a year ago, the UK government convened a global summit to commit to fighting corruption. The final communiqué from the governments involved summed up their historic intentions: “We want to send a clear signal to the […]

Note: This op-ed originally appeared in the Daily Beast and was written by The Sentry co-founder John Prendergast. It is a symbol of how broken the international response system is to genocide and mass atrocities that after nearly three years of fratricidal war, and more recently of flashing neon warnings by normally circumspect United Nations officials […]

Note: This op-ed originally appeared in the Economist and was written by The Sentry co-founders George Clooney and John Prendergast. Tackling corruption is the key to peace in South Sudan and beyond, argue George Clooney and John Prendergast, co-founders of The Sentry.   The world’s newest country, South Sudan, could have been holding its first free […]

By George Clooney and John Prendergast South Sudan’s leaders are perfecting the art of the diplomatic bait-and-switch while fighting over the spoils of a resource-rich state, destroying the world’s newest country in the process. The leaders agreed to a peace deal, but have implemented few of its provisions. They have agreed to a new judicial […]

By John Prendergast The Panama Papers leak and the Global Anti-Corruption Summit convened in London last week by U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron have focused attention on corruption and tax evasion, highlighting the extraordinary wealth being hidden to evade international regulation. Such belated attention is welcome, but will only matter if it leads to enforceable […]

By John Prendergast South Sudan’s principal rebel leader, Riek Machar, is finally going back to Juba and his post of vice president this week, giving a boost to hopes for peace after war has raged in the world’s newest country for over two years.  But his return to a country facing economic implosion and famine provides […]

By John Prendergast and J.R. Mailey The arrest of two FIFA officials last week in Switzerland was an important milestone for soccer’s governing body. The criminals who brought the organization to its knees are finally being removed and paying a price, paving the way for FIFA to begin rebuilding its tattered reputation and legitimacy. Over […]

By John Prendergast South Sudan’s belligerents have signed a peace deal, but it is far from certain that the brutal 20-month civil war is over. If the next steps the parties take are simply to restore the status quo that existed before the war’s eruption, the odds are wildly in favor of a return to […]

  By John Prendergast Throughout history, war may have been hell, but for small groups of conflict profiteers it has also been very lucrative. Today’s deadliest conflicts in Africa — such as those in Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, northern Nigeria, and the Democratic Republic of Congo — are sustained by extraordinary opportunities for illicit self-enrichment […]

By John Prendergast On July 23rd, President Obama will be visiting what has been the deadliest neighborhood in the world over the past twenty years. He’ll be touching down in the two most stable countries in the region, Kenya and Ethiopia. Though beset with human rights issues of their own, they are swimming in a […]

by George Clooney, John Prendergast and Akshaya Kumar The scale of the crisis facing South Sudan is hard to comprehend — 2 million people have been displaced as the country has tumbled back into a greed-driven war that has also left almost half the population without enough food to eat. To stop the death spiral, […]