Archives for December 2004

The Bush administration State Department is giving ominous signs in Khartoum that it is about to abandon all commitment to self-determination for southern Sudan. Speaking of the "Libyan-Egyptian Initiative," Robert ...

The Episcopal Church has this past week formally resolved to divest from its shareholding in Talisman Energy, sending yet another signal that American churches will not be complicit in the oil-driven destruction of Sudan. ...

The ongoing military slaughter of innocent civilians in Southern Sudan continues apace, as the Khartoum regime now bombs fleeing civilians in western Bahr el-Ghazal and makes ongoing use of Talisman Energy airstrips for ...

The Gagnon/Ryle human rights assessment report on oil development in Sudan ["Report of an Investigation into Oil Development, Conflict and Displacement in Western Upper Nile, Sudan," October 2001] is a brutally critical ...

Yesterday's vitally important human rights assessment of oil development in Sudan ["Report of an Investigation into Oil Development, Conflict and Displacement in Western Upper Nile, Sudan," October 2001] stands as a ...

A Canadian/British human rights assessment mission has today (October 16, 2001) released the most detailed and authoritative report to date on oil development in Sudan ["Report of an Investigation into Oil Development, ...

Research by the newest United Nations Special Rapporteur for Sudan has confirmed and extended the findings of his predecessors concerning the role of oil in exacerbating Sudan's brutally destructive civil war. Gerhart Baum, ...

By means of deadly aerial assaults, the Government of Sudan has succeeded in forcing the United Nations to abandon its humanitarian relief efforts to assist the 20,000 internally displaced persons in Mangayath, Bahr el-Ghazal ...

Osama bin Laden's "Sudan Connection": news reports continue to reveal an expanding set of links between bin Laden, his al-Qaeda organization, and the National Islamic Front regime in Khartoum. The larger picture is one of ...

The Government of Sudan played a critical role in the assassination attempt against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, June 25, 1995). This terrorist act should serve to remind us why the United States ...