Peace in Sudan: Good News for People or Oil Companies?
Article from: OGEL 1 (2005), in Professional News
Introduction
The new year brought a whisper of good news. In the first week of January, Sudanese rebels and the Khartoum government signed a pact ending one of Africa 's longest wars. Since 1983, more than two million people have died, and another four million have fled their homes in fighting that pitched North against South. The agreement outlines a six-year process for the two regions to share power and equitably distribute resources. Combatants need to be disarmed and employed, and economic development, long frozen by the war, needs to be restarted. And that's where oil comes in. Sudan ...