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  • DARFURI-AMERICAN IMPLORES PRESIDENT TO ACT NOW TO PREVENT A “STAINED LEGACY”

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Susan Morgan, 617 797 0451, susan@paxcommunications.org Elizabeth Blackney, 541 390 1913, eliz@medializzy.com PDF of Press Release and Letter by Mohamed Suleiman Series of letters from Sudanese highlight need for new approach to Sudan WASHINGTON, DC – August 1, 2013 – Mohamed Suleiman, an American from Darfur, today issued an open letter to President Obama,…

  • Nafie Ali Nafie: Not Welcome in America

      Update: “The United States informed the Sudanese government that its invitation to presidential assistant and vice chairman of ruling National Congress Party (NCP) Nafie Ali Nafie is on hold following Khartoum’s decision to freeze cooperation agreements with South Sudan.” – Sudan Tribune The State Department is readying the proverbial red carpet for one of…

  • Dear Governor Romney and President Obama:

    Recently the United States helped to facilitate an oil agreement between Sudan and South Sudan that fails to address the ongoing atrocities committed by the regime in Khartoum against its own civilians. We would like you both to address this question: “How will you act to stop the continuing mass atrocities against civilians by the…

  • Act for Sudan’s Letter to President Obama

    Act for Sudan delivered this letter to several senior members of the Obama Administration at the July 30, 2012 White House Panel on sub-Saharan policy and to members of the Sudan Caucus at their briefing on the same day. Support this letter with a tweet and a Facebook post! Tweet this: The @whitehouse passive response…

  • Letter to the President, July 30, 2012

    This letter was delivered to several senior members of the Obama Administration at the July 30, 2012 White House Panel on sub-Saharan policy and to members of the Sudan Caucus at their briefing on the same day. President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear Mr. President, We, Act…

  • Politifact: Set the Record Straight on Obama’s Broken Darfur Promise.

    In 2008, the Obama Campaign promised that, “As president, Obama will take immediate steps to end the genocide in Darfur by increasing pressure on the Sudanese and pressure the government to halt the killing and stop impeding the deployment of a robust international force.”  Four years later, however, the situation in Darfur and other regions…

  • Obama, Why are you still waiting?

    Recently members of Congress, Sudan activists and celebrities like George Clooney have sounded the alarm about the 400,000 civilians in Sudan’s regions of South Kordofan and Blue Nile that are starving to death at the hands of their own government.  The Obama administration has noted that lack of food has reach “emergency” levels, one step…