George Clooney launches project to 'end war in Africa'

Hollywood actor, George Clooney, has launched a new initiative called 'The Sentry', aimed at ending conflicts on the African continent by tracking the money that fuels them. 

Mr Clooney's co-founder, John Prendergast from the advocacy group 'the Enough Project', will investigate the financing of conflicts in South Sudan, Sudan, the Central African Republic (CAR) and the Democratic Republic of Congo. 

Mr. Prendergast, a former Africa Director at the US National Security Council turned human rights activist, said conventional tools of diplomacy have so far failed and that new efforts to end wars must centre on how to make war more costly than peace.

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