Word: sudan
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When asked how he plans to deal with the political and economic risks of Schlumberger’s Sudan presence, Gould maintained that the company “does not have a relationship with the Sudanese government...
HDAG is targeting Schlumberger for divestment because of the company’s ties to the Sudanese oil industry. According to a report by the Sudan Divestment Task Force—a national activist group that HDAG is a member of—Schlumberger has increased the number of oil rigs it has in Sudan by 400% since the start of the genocide...
During a question and answer session following the panel, Gould was asked about his company’s increasing presence in Sudan, to which he responded, “the information on the oileries is erroneous...
...deathbeds in Kigali, with six AIDS patients stacked onto one cot, from the child dying of malaria to the village without clean water, conditions in Africa are an affront to every value we Europeans have ever seen fit to put on paper. We see in Somalia and Sudan what happens if more militant forces fill the void and stir dissent within what is, for the most part, a pro-Western and moderate Muslim population. (Nearly half of Africa's people are devotees of Islam.) So whether as a moral or strategic imperative, it's folly to let this fire rage...
...united front of fractious rebel groups and Janjaweed defectors. Still, some rebel commanders believe the situation has changed dramatically as a result of actions by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Although international pressure on Khartoum has been slow in coming, with U.N. Security Council action stonewalled by China, and Sudan refusing entry to U.N. peacekeeping forces, the ICC has targeted specific leaders for prosecution. Last month, its chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo asked pre-trial judges to issue summonses for Ahmed Haroun, a former state interior minister, and militia commander Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-al-Rahman, also known...