Download Raising the Stakes : Oil and Conflict in Sudan - A Sudan Update Report

• Author: Peter Verney
• Published Date: 01 Dec 1999
• Book Format: Paperback::60 pages
• ISBN10: 0953767809
• Filename: raising-the-stakes-oil-and-conflict-in-sudan-a-sudan-update-report.pdf

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In recent years, a significant amount of foreign-based oil drilling has begun in South Sudan, raising the land's geopolitical profile. Oil and other mineral resources can be found throughout South Sudan, but the area around Bentiu is commonly known as being especially rich in oil, while Jonglei, Warrap, and Lakes have potential reserves. During Sudan signed an Action Plan with the UN to protect children from recruitment and use in conflict. Key International Actors. The African Union’s High-Level Implementation Panel for Sudan and South Sudan continued to mediate peace talks for Southern Kordofan, Blue Nile, and Darfur with little success. Dozens of UN servers – including systems at its human rights offices, as well as its human resources department – were compromised and some administrator accounts breached, according to a confidential UN report obtained The New Humanitarian. Since South Sudan's independence, South Sudan and Sudan have continued to experience tensions, primarily over the oil pipeline between the two countries, oil revenue, the disputed borderline, contested territories along the border, especially Aei, and support to armed groups operating in the rival country. A weekend drone attack on Saudi Arabia that cut into global energy supplies and halved the kingdom’s oil production threatened Sunday to fuel a regional crisis, as the U.S. Released new evidence to back up its allegation that Iran was responsible for the assault amid heightened tensions over … Klare zooms in on four areas – Iraq/Syria, South Sudan, the Crimea/Ukraine, and the South China Sea – to argue that the desire to control valuable oil and gas assets is fuelling long-standing historic tensions. “In a fossil-fuel world, control over oil and gas reserves is an essential component of … Sudan has long been beset conflict. Two rounds of north-south civil war cost the lives of 1.5 million people, and a continuing conflict in the western region of Darfur has driven two million people from their homes and killed more than 200,000. Read more profiles BBC Monitoring Eighteen countries are expected to hold presidential, parliamentary or local elections in 2018. In many of these places, either politics is zero-sum, raising the stakes and risking violence around the polls; or power is heavily skewed toward the ruling party, often sowing the seeds of future conflict. ntil December 2013, South Sudan was making progress in key development areas. According to the Government of the Republic of South Sudan (GRSS) donor book, state and national budgets increased pro-poor sector allocation to 26.7% in FY2013/2014 from an average 7.9% in the previous year; and the states received 26% of budgetary resources. In this video, I show you what's inside Petra, also known as the Lost City of Stone, is made up of massive structures that are sculpted right out of the side of canyon walls, hidden in the remote mountains of Jordan, and is one of the most underrated sites of lost ancient human civilization. And when I say that these structures are 1 - Introduction OIL BOOM? On 30 August 1999, Sudan filled its first tanker-load of oil. A gigantic pipeline snaking up from oilfields over 1600 kilometres into the African hinterland was at last disgorging 100,000 barrels a day of crude oil at a nearly-completed marine terminal near Port Sudan, on the Red Sea. JUDY WOODRUFF: Now, an update on the continued fighting in the African nation of Sudan and a well-known visitor to that country. Last summer, people in South Sudan celebrated as they became citizens of the world's newest nation. The government arrested some 26 people, including journalists who tried to cover the massacre, and detained them for several weeks. The UN Special Rapporteur on Sudan deplored the "excessive force" and "arbitrary arrests and prosecutions to stifle community protest against the Kajbar dam" in a report. Prolonged sanctions against the unified Sudan allowed Asian n ational oil companies to dominate Sudan’s and South Sudan’s oil sectors. The China National Petroleum Corporation, India's Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, and Malaysia’s Petronas hold large stakes in the leadi ng consortia that operate oil fields and pipelines. Sudan and South The UN's latest Children and Armed Conflict Report monitors the violation of children's human rights in 20 conflict-ridden countries and cites verified cases of recruitment and use of children in the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria, the Syrian Arab Republic and Yemen, among others. We are waiting for reinforcement from Sudan and Yemen, of wisdom and faith. Rise up from your seats in the house of your mothers and join in the caravan of the protectors of Tawheed in the forests of glory and dignity and be among those who raise the black banner in Somalia, the first time after the invasion of the Assinian rabble. Control of offshore gas and oil provokes conflicts in eastern Mediterranean Jean Shaoul 24 February 2020 The dispatch of Turkish troops to Lia, the bitter dispute between France and Italy over military policy at December’s NATO summit in London, and the formation of a French-Greek military alliance against Turkey A recently leaked report from the African Union (AU) suggested that it temporarily take over the country and exclude Machar and Kiir from the transitional government. In South Sudan, nobody believes the AU is up to the task. In fact, many argue that it’s a ploy to steal the country’s oil and other natural resources. Bassey Inyang in Calabar Organs of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN),the Caritas Nigeria and Justice Development for Peace Commission (JDPC), want the President-elect, General Muhammdu Buhari, to consider the environmental and economic implications of oil exploration in the Lake Chad basin before embarking on such a course. Exxon's share of oil production in those fields reached 120,000bpd in 2017, it added. Similarly, Exxon it reported is also weighing the possible sale of stakes in offshore fields in Nigeria, and is looking into offering for sale assets in Equatorial Guinea and Chad. Meanwhile, military reinforcements on both sides raise the spectre of a broader conflict engulfing the wider region, he warned, pointing out that the warring parties continue to receive a sizeable amount of advanced equipment, fighters and advisers from foreign sponsors, in brazen violation of the arms embargo and pledges made at the Berlin Update: Read 10 Conflicts to Watch in 2019. That said, there are conflicts whose urgency and importance rise above. This year’s list of 10 is weighted toward wars with the worst humanitarian consequences: Syria and Iraq, South Sudan, Afghanistan, Yemen, and the Lake Chad basin. Azerbaijan Anonymous, a new report released today Global Witness, reveals a shadowy figure in the oil industry of Azerbaijan, a key EU energy supplier. A little-known businessman, Anar Aliyev, has gained ownership stakes, some highly profitable, in at least 48 deals with Socar, the state oil company of Azerbaijan, though it is not clear why he is involved and how his involvement is of The sheer brutality of that crackdown did prompt the African Union to suspend Sudan until a “civilian-led transitional authority” was in place. But a sign of how little that dented the influence of the Saudi-UAE-Egypt axis came when Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed traveled to Sudan in an effort to mediate a peaceful way forward. Hence, U.S. Sanctions against Sudan, announced Bush last year, will not harm the country’s oil production, as even U.S. Officials admit. 30 The stakes in Darfur are all the more clear given the abundance of resources in the area: massive amounts of oil in both Sudan and Chad, plus gold, uranium, copper, and bauxite in Sudan, including Sudan continues to report violations against civilians, while 1.5 million people remain internally displaced. Sudan underwent a major transition of power in 2019, during which human rights violations were reported. The number of refugees in and from Eastern Africa decreased from 4.7 million in … From the vast deserts of Saudi Arabia to the crowded neighborhoods of Beirut, a drone war has taken flight across the wider Middle East, raising the stakes in the ongoing tensions between the U.S. And Iran. If the past decade offers any lessons, it is that conflict can take many forms, and can arise from a range of local vulnerabilities if stoked. Here, we review 10 situations in which conflict is likely to change and worsen in the coming year, creating new dilemmas for governments and citizens. To access a full copy of the report, click here. Forces loyal to Lian military strongman Khalifa Haftar blocked oil exports from the war-ravaged country’s main ports Saturday, raising the stakes on the eve of an international summit aimed at bringing peace to the North African nation. The move to cripple the country’s main income source was a protest against Turkey’s decision to send Rising challenges in development co-operation Development co-operation is facing multiple simultaneous bottlenecks and challenges, including how to engage with new topics and technologies, which, as emphasised Achim Steiner, UNDP Administrator in his “In My View” piece, raise the stakes for action to leave no one behind.

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