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“There is little doubt that George Floyd was murdered,” writes George Clooney. “This is our pandemic. It infects all of us, and in 400 years we’ve yet to find a vaccine.”
In 2007, George Clooney, along with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, and Jerry Weintraub, co-founded Not On Our Watch, an organization whose mission is to focus global attention and resources to stop and prevent mass atrocities in Darfur. Among the many honors received as a result of his humanitarian efforts in Darfur was the "2007 Peace Summit Award" given at The 8th World Summit of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates at their annual meeting in Rome.
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Reflecting on rising tensions in the United States, actor and activist George Clooney penned the following for The Daily Beast.
Africa
After suffering so long for independence, South Sudan faces a new civil war. What the country’s leaders and the international community can do to contain the crisis.
The largest country in Africa, Sudan is also the site of some of the continent's biggest challenges. Omar al-Bashir, the nation's Islamist leader who came to power in a 1989 coup, has been charged with war crimes by the International Criminal Court for directing the mass killing and rape that has devastated Sudan’s Darfur region since 2003. A decades-old civil war between the North and South ended with a fragile peace in 2005, but an upcoming vote on Southern independence threatens to derail the peace process. George Clooney and John Prendergast on how commitment from all parties involved—including the U.S.—can keep war from once again consuming this troubled nation. Click here to read the elements of a possible peace deal.
The largest country in Africa, Sudan is also the site of some of the continent's biggest challenges. Omar al-Bashir, the nation's Islamist leader who came to power in a 1989 coup, has been charged with war crimes by the International Criminal Court for directing the mass killing and rape that has devastated Sudan’s Darfur region since 2003. A decades-old civil war between the north and south ended with a fragile peace in 2005, but an upcoming vote on southern independence threatens to derail the peace process. George Clooney and John Prendergast on how commitment from all parties involved—include the U.S.—can keep war from once again consuming this troubled nation.
For years, George Clooney argues, there has been little hope in Darfur. Today, Sudan's president was indicted for crimes against humanity. Now the world should bring him to justice.