Actor-activist George Clooney and Enough Project co-founder John Prendergast have published in today’s USA Today an op-ed that urges the Obama Administration to take steps to avoid “The largest conventional war on the face of the earth in 2011 [that] will occur in Sudan unless bold diplomacy led by the U.S. prevents it.”

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U.S. must help stop Sudan’s slow-motion war
By George Clooney and John Prendergast

The largest conventional war on the face of the earth in 2011 will occur in Sudan unless bold diplomacy led by the U.S. prevents it. The most dangerous tripwire will be in seven months, when southern Sudanese will vote to determine whether the South splits off and forms a new country. Some ruling party officials don’t want to give up the oil-rich South without a fight. Southerners spilled a great deal of blood to win the right to opt out of Sudan, and they will keep fighting until they have their own state.
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