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Strategies & Market Trends : Africa and its Issues- Why Have We Ignored Africa?
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From: Lynn5/30/2007 2:34:50 PM
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DARFUR WAITS ON CHINA: The modest punitive measures unveiled Tuesday by
U.S. President George W. Bush against 31 Sudanese government-run
companies -- including several tied to Sudan's booming oil industry -- as
well as against a rebel leader and two senior government officials, fall
short of harder-hitting measures demanded by many human-rights
advocates.

As Yochi J. Dreazen reports, the Bush administration's new sanctions
against the Sudanese government highlight how few options the U.S. has
for ending the violence wracking the war-torn nation's Darfur region. The
administration avoided measures such as imposing a full no-fly zone
over Darfur or sending well-armed Western peacekeepers.

While the Bush administration blames most of the violence on the
Sudanese government, U.S. efforts to get the U.N. Security Council to approve
tougher measures have been stymied for months by opposition from
countries such as China, which has lucrative commercial ties to Sudan. In
recent weeks, however, Beijing sent a senior official to push Khartoum to
allow U.N.-led peacekeepers into Darfur and hinted it might be willing
to accept tougher measures.

The U.S., Britain and France are finalizing a new Security Council
resolution that would impose a full arms embargo on Sudan, bar Khartoum
from conducting air raids and flying soldiers into Darfur, and demand that
Sudan allow as many as 20,000 U.N. and African Union peacekeepers into
the region. The three countries hope to introduce the resolution as
early as this week, but its fate will hinge on China.

Read Yochi J. Dreazen's report from Washington:
online.wsj.com
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