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Gold/Mining/Energy : ARAKIS: HIGH RISK OIL PLAY (AKSEF) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Edward M. Zettlemoyer who wrote (7651)	1/19/1998 1:55:00 PM
From: Jim Lamb	Respond to of 9164

That Sudan net chat site is full of a lot of dribble posted by a bunch of rumor spreading morons. This reuters article does mention some fighting around oil consession but doesn't sound like much to be concerned about. Jim -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- News Article by REUTERS on January 19, 1998 at 11:50:51: 38 Reported Dead in Fighting Between Sudan Forces Reuters 19-JAN-98 KHARTOUM, Sudan (Reuters) Southern Sudanese leader Riek Machar said Monday that 38 people were killed in more than a week of clashes between members of a government peacekeeping force. Machar, a former rebel who is now president of the Southern Coordinating Council, told Reuters the fighting started Jan. 9 between soldiers who were supporting rival tribesmen contesting a local election. ''It only ended Saturday,'' he said. Machar said the troops, members of the Southern Sudan Defense Force (SSDF), had been guarding the oil concession of a Chinese firm just outside Bentiu town in Unity state, some 470 miles south of Khartoum. Clashes broke out after Taban Deng was voted in as the governor of the southern state and supporters of his rival, Paul Lilly, were dissatisfied with the result. ''We managed to convince both sides to accept the results of the elections as it was the choice of the people,'' Machar said. The SSDF is made up of former rebels who joined forces with the government and are now helping it fight the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) which wants autonomy for the south.