Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

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

To: Douglas V. Fant who wrote (7816)	2/20/1998 2:06:00 AM
From: Douglas V. Fant	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9164

11:01 p.m. Feb 19, 1998 Eastern By David Fox NAIROBI, Feb 19 (Reuters) - The United Nations sounded a warning on Thursday that hundreds of thousands of Sudanese faced death from war, famine or disease this year unless donors contributed $109 million to keep a relief operation in place. Carl Tintsman, the Nairobi-based chief coordinator for Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS), told a news conference that the money needed was the minimum to care for over four million people affected by civil war in the vast East African country. ''It is a dire, life-threatening situation,'' he said. ''Unless we get the money we honestly don't know what their fate will be.'' Tintsman also said aid organisations were expecting an increase this year in fighting between southern-based Sudan Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA) rebels and government forces, which would further stretch OLS resources. The OLS -- which groups two U.N. and 35 non-governmental organisations in coordinating the world's longest-running air relief operation -- was formed in 1989, a year after over 250,000 people died in the worst famine in Sudan's history. Sudan has been hit by outbreaks of civil war for over 40 years, but the current phase has been going on since 1984. The black, mainly Christian or animist south is fighting for autonomy from the Moslem, Arabised north. ''We believe there will be higher levels of military conflict in 1998, a bad drought in some parts and flooding in other areas,'' Tintsman said. ''This really is a cocktail of death.'' Tintsman said OLS received only 40 percent of the $120 million it appealed for last year, and this meant some vital projects had to be put off until 1998. The OLS runs a huge airlift of food, drugs and other vital supplies to Sudan from Lokichokio in northern Kenya, but the operation has run into difficulties recently because the Khartoum government has refused permission to the United Nations to fly to militarily sensitive areas. Sudanese rebels last month launched a fresh offensive on Wau, the south's second largest city, and aid officials have had no access to the area since February 4. The OLS has to tread delicately in its dealings with Khartoum. Permission is sought to fly even to areas which have been in the control of rebels for years because of concerns of suggesting recognition of the SPLA's territorial claims or casting doubt on Khartoum's legitimacy to rule. Tintsman said it was unlikely the United Nations would change this policy, but privately some officials suggest that if the situation worsens in Sudan, the world body may have to consider more drastic measures. ^REUTERS@

To: Douglas V. Fant who wrote (7816)	2/20/1998 5:51:00 AM
From: Edward M. Zettlemoyer	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9164

Douglas, Can you show me a published source other than CIA statistics that shows the Christian population grew from 5 to over 40% in the past several months. Just trying to keep my thoughts scientific. It seems like the media would really go out of their way for a story about Saddam's chemical warfare being used on women and children, especially outside Iraq. Any idea why a story never surfaced? Also, what about the other oil interest in the neighboring concessions, won't these companies contribute to the wealth of the present government? Why flame only Arakis? Ed