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To: Casey who wrote (506)	10/24/1999 5:43:00 PM
From: Tomas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1713

Albright angry with Calgary company for investing in Sudan Calgary Herald, October 23 NAIROBI (AP) - U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, on a visit to Kenya, expressed anger Saturday over Canadian investment in neighbouring Sudan, whose government Washington officially condemns. Asked about the participation of Canadian interests in an oil consortium in Sudan, she said: "I am definitely going to talk to the Canadians about this." She said some countries have the mistaken view foreign investment in countries under what she termed dictatorial rule will help ordinary people, adding revenues instead often wind up in the pockets of the rulers. Talisman Energy Inc., based in Calgary, has invested $400 million in a 1,600-kilometre pipeline that is expected to permit exploitation of untapped oil reserves. The pipeline was completed several months ago. Sudan is the scene of a conflict that has claimed the lives of an estimated 1.9 million people over the last 16 years, mostly southerners who perished in a war-induced famine. On the final leg of a six-country African tour, Albright met with John Garang, head of the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army, as well as leaders of a regional group trying to arrange a peace settlement and exiled Sudanese civil leaders. Before arriving in Kenya, Albright visited Guinea, Sierra Leone, Mali and Nigeria. She also went to Tanzania, where she attended the funeral of Julius Nyerere, a former Tanzanian president and one of the continent's most beloved statesman. At the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, before departing for Washington, Albright said her encounter with Sudanese civic leaders was distressing. She said they told her Sudanese aircraft routinely bomb churches in the south because they are easily visible from high elevations. "They are worried that whole generations of Sudanese will have no homes," Albright said. She promised an increase in U.S. aid to these civil society groups to $3 million a year, up from the current $2 million. The United States also has provided food assistance averaging about $100 million a year to starving people in Sudan over the last decade. In addition to the bombings in the south, Albright said the radical Islamic government of Sudanese President Omar El-Bashir has used food-deprivation and ethnic-cleansing as tactics against the south. It also has tried to impose Islamic law on southerners, who are predominantly Christian or animist. She described Garang, the Sudanese rebel leader, as a "sophisticated, dedicated and determined" man who has had a difficult time gaining support because he lacks international recognition. Albright expressed frustration that the United States does not have more influence over the situation. "The problem is how to exert leverage over countries that you don't deal with," she said. The United States lists Sudan as one of seven countries that are state sponsors of terrorist activities. An almost total U.S. trade embargo was imposed on Sudan two years ago. The United States also bombed a pharmaceutical plant in the capital Khartoum last year because of its alleged links with Osama bin Laden. The exiled Saudi national has been indicted by a U.S. federal court in connection with the August 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. southam.com