Khartoum’s May 22, 2002 bombing attack on civilians at Rier has now come more clearly into focus. Geographical confusion over which “Rier” was attacked has been resolved; more consequentially, the terrible casualty figures continue to rise. We also know that Rier was a relief center, of the sort critically important for the tens of thousands [...]

A detailed press release from the Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement (SPLA/M) makes clear that the National Islamic Front regime in Khartoum is continuing its massive assault on civilians in the oil regions of Western Upper Nile Province. The SPLA/M release reports that eleven people were killed and forty-five wounded today when sixteen bombs were dropped [...]

The world community hardly needs further evidence of what is occurring in the oil regions of southern Sudan: all evidence available clearly reveals that the Khartoum regime is bent on destroying the indigenous populations in order to provide security for Canadian, European, and Asian oil exploitation. But the European Coalition on Oil in Sudan (ECOS) [...]

Without swift passage of the Sudan Peace Act, in its House version, American capital will continue to finance the oil-driven destruction of southern Sudan. For example, Malaysia’s state-owned Petroliam Nasional Bhd., more commonly known as Petronas, is the second largest participant in the oil projects of southern Sudan. It is thus massively complicit in the [...]

Rights & Democracy (Canada) has made clear that this is a distinct possibility. Kathleen Mahoney, a law professor at the University of Calgary and Chair of Rights & Democracy (Canada), declared in an April 30, 2002 release by the organization that “under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, it is clear that officers [...]

The humanitarian organization Action Contre la Faim (ACF) has issued an urgent alarm about the desperate food crisis in the oil regions of Western Upper Nile (reported May 8, 2002 by the UN Integrated Regional Information Networks). In a telling sign of the terrible disaster unfolding, Action Contre la Faim has found that malnutrition rates [...]

Despite the dismal performance of the Canadian news media in covering last week’s Talisman AGM in Calgary and attendant protests—or in analyzing Talisman’s deeply disingenuous “Corporate Social Responsibility Report”—there is clear evidence that the Canadian energy company’s complicity in the oil-driven destruction of Sudan is still costing them significantly. Today’s Globe and Mail gives a [...]

The report of John Danforth, US special envoy to Sudan, has only just been delivered to President Bush; but the National Islamic Front regime in Khartoum has wasted no time in emphatically rejecting the proposed plan for sharing oil revenues that Danforth highlights. This is hardly surprising, indeed was to be expected. What is notable [...]

Almost incredibly, the Khartoum regime has found a way to escalate its barbaric aerial assaults on civilian and humanitarian targets in the oil regions of southern Sudan. Spokespersons for the UN’s World Food Program (WFP) confirm a helicopter gunship attack on Bieh, in Western Upper Nile (about 50 miles south of Bentiu). This immensely destructive [...]

Press reports allow us to glimpse some of the key features of the report of John Danforth, US special envoy for Sudan. Soon to be submitted to President Bush, the document evidently has two key features. First, the Report presumes to define the terms of southern self-determination, in particular by excluding the possibility of southern [...]