National Security Council Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/national-security-council/ The low down on African affairs Tue, 11 Jun 2019 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 National Security Council Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/national-security-council/ 32 32 George Clooney urges Washington to use available weapon to end human rights abuses in Sudan https://jjcornish.com/2019/06/george-clooney-urges-washington-to-use-available-weapon-to-end-human-rights-abuses-in-sudan/ Tue, 11 Jun 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/06/george-clooney-urges-washington-to-use-available-weapon-to-end-human-rights-abuses-in-sudan/ Activist film star George Clooney is urging Washington to use the tools is has to shut down the remnants of Omar Al Bashir’s regime in Sudan and those benefiting from violence in that country. He says this will give muscle to calls for restraint by the military against civilian protestors made by Assistant Secretary of […]

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]]> Activist film star George Clooney is urging Washington to use the tools is has to shut down the remnants of Omar Al Bashir’s regime in Sudan and those benefiting from violence in that country.

He says this will give muscle to calls for restraint by the military against civilian protestors made by Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Tibor Nagy who was in Khartoum yesterday.

George Clooney founded the watchdog group called The Sentry with former African Affairs director at the National Security Council John Prendergast.

He says they’re looking to ensure there are consequences for Sudan’s  military junta and the paramilitary janjaweed  they deployed a Darfur a decade ago and Khartoum today.

But he’s urging the US Treasury to issue an international anti money laundering advisory, like it did against Venezuela and Ukraine, to stop illicit financial flows from Sudan

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