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

To: Zeev Hed who wrote (7762)	2/12/1998 10:46:00 AM
From: g.w. barnard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9164

zeev. "That would be the shortest bullish stand I have taken on Aksef. Something must be rotten in that kingdom, but the jury is not out until 2-5/8 holds or fails, IMHO" yep, i thought we would get more of a bounce on the new ceo and substained improvement. i can't read the plane crash yet but initially not good. i am waiting for more news. this could put a dent into the power structure in sudan. geez i need so couch time. gw

To: Zeev Hed who wrote (7762)	2/13/1998 1:05:00 AM
From: Douglas V. Fant	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9164

Zeev, I have some information for you on Rwanda... Meanwhile the evil, godless, and murderous NIF Government has resorted once again to massacres of the southern African populations who were fools enough to serve in the Sudanese Army in the country and to trust theword of the Arab Muslims, and is also simultaneously trying to starve another 100,000 African women and children to death who are cut off by the fighting in order to stave off defeat at the hands of the the NDA/SPLA Alliance..... These latest events will help lead to a post-war partition of the Sudan IMO.... But also do not be fooled. The main battle in the liberation of the south has yet to begin.... What is Arakis' fate in the New Sudan? Ask yourself- has Arakis Leadership been complicit in the torture, starvation, and murder of the Africans? Therein lies your answer.... Zeev- If there is a God in heaven, then help the Africans who are being tortured , cluster-bombed, starved, murdered, gang raped, and sold into slavery, at the hands of these truly evil fascists who run the Sudan..... Sincerely, Doug F. U.N. says 100,000 Sudanese at risk after battle 10:28 a.m. Feb 10, 1998 Eastern By Matthew Bigg NAIROBI, Feb 10 (Reuters) - More than 100,000 civilians in southwest Sudan are at great risk because of a government decision to suspend international aid flights of food and medicine, the U.N.'s Sudan agency said on Tuesday. Adding to the suffering, the Khartoum-based government has also bombed areas in Bahr el-Ghazal region where civilians gathered after fleeing fighting between government troops and rebels, aid officials said. The civilians -- who fled fighting around the city of Wau and Aweil and Gogrial -- lack food, water and any medical supplies, said officials from Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS), which groups U.N. and 35 non-government aid agencies. Aid supplies are stockpiled in Lokichoggio, northwest Kenya, but last week's decision by the government in Khartoum to suspend aid flights means help cannot reach the displaced. ''These aid flight suspensions are putting the lives of vulnerable civilians at great risk. The people displaced have been walking for several days without food and with little water and are exhausted,'' OLS said in a statement. World Vision's relief director for Sudan, Bruce Menser, said on Tuesday: ''We have relief supplies and staff ready to move, but now innocent children and women will starve because a government which claims right over them is denying them the right to live.'' Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) forces under the command of Kerubino Kwanyin Bol attempted to seize Wau, the second largest city in southern Sudan, in an operation that started on January 28. Fighting over the city has reached a stalemate, with the rebels and government troops needing to bring in reinforcements to tilt the struggle in their favour. Bol's troops have seized the railroad running north from Wau, while government forces are based in barracks west of the city. The government holds the airport, rendered inoperable by the closeness of SPLA artillery. The SPLA also says it holds Aweil town, 150 km (93 miles) northwest of Wau. ''The SPLA is bringing up reinforcements from Western Equatoria (province) by road using two routes, one via Tonj and Rumbek,'' said a Western analyst following the situation in Sudan. Meanwhile the government is using an Antonov plane to bomb towns where civilians displaced by fighting have gathered, aid officials and observers said. The government bombed Luanyaker town, 90 km (56 miles) northeast of Wau on Monday morning. ''The government is actually bombing civilian targets as it has done in the past... (and) in the last few days with intensity,'' the Western analyst said. There were no casualty figures. High aerial bombing has been a regular feature of Sudan's conflict, which restarted in 1983. Unconfirmed reports from other sources said government soldiers from southern ethnic groups were massacred by their northern colleagues in Wau after Bol rejoined the SPLA last month. Bol left the movement in 1991 and last April joined five other rebel faction leaders to sign a peace agreement with the government. But he defected back to the SPLA in January after rejecting an offer by Khartoum of a vice-presidency of the Southern Coordinating Council -- the government for the south set up by Khartoum under the April peace deal. Deep cultural, religious and political differences underpin Sudan's civil war, with the south is predominantly black and Christian while the north is largely Arab and Moslem. ^REUTERS@