Talisman Energy has been fiercely criticized for its role as the only Western participant in Sudan's Greater Nile oil project. According to all credible accounts, this oil project and the revenues it generates are extending ...

The military situation in the oil regions of Upper Nile Province continues to grow more ominous for oil development companies. Moreover, there is now independent confirmation of the devastating attack on a major convoy of ...

Gerhart Baum, the Special Rapporteur for human rights in Sudan, faced serious questions when he was appointed to this extremely difficult and important job. Would he be as honest and outspoken in characterizing the Khartoum ...

Two recent publications of note (one from Newsweek [May 31, 2001], the other from The Guardian [June 4, 2001]) make clear that the Government of Sudan is accelerating its genocidal assault on the Nuba region in southern ...

Is Chester Crocker, apparent front-runner for the position of Special Envoy for Sudan, in a position to dictate to the White House the terms of his employment? According to a New York Times article of yesterday (May 31; ...

The campaign against oil development in Sudan has grown dramatically with yesterday's inauguration of efforts by the European Coalition on Oil in Sudan (ECOS). Their forcefully articulated goal is to halt oil development and ...

May 25, 2001 Thomas Ekvall, Chair of United Nations Systems Khartoum, Sudan Dear Mr. Ekvall: It is my understanding that you very recently chaired a meeting in Khartoum of the "Humanitarian Aid Forum" at which a ...

Canadian Foreign Minister John Manley yesterday issued a statement on Sudan, with a title "expressing concern over the situation." But the statement does nothing at all to advance Canadian policy toward Sudan; it does ...

How angry are the people of southern Sudan at Canada for allowing Talisman Energy to remain complicit in the oil-destruction of their lives, land and livelihood? Sudanese Bishop Macram Max Gassis, now in Ottawa, gives a ...

In an extraordinary development, Royal Dutch Shell announced yesterday that it will now try to prevent supplies of its aviation fuel from being used by Khartoum's military aircraft, in particular the Antonov bombers that have ...