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To: Razorbak who wrote (1113)	5/31/1999 5:48:00 PM
From: Tomas	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 2742

Sudan readies for oil exports - BBC World Service, Monday May 31 Sudan is to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the coup that brought President Omar al-Beshir to power by inaugurating its oil export industry. President Beshir began the operation today by switching on the pipeline which will carry oil from Higleig in West Kordofan to a new harbour at Beshair on the Red Sea. The first exports will begin from the harbour on June the thirtieth, the exact anniversary of the coup. The one-billion dollar pipeline has a pumping capacity of four-hundred-and- fifty thousand barrels of oil a day. It will connect to a refinery in North Kordofan and another near the capital, Khartoum.

To: Razorbak who wrote (1113)	6/1/1999 1:15:00 AM
From: Tomas	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 2742

Sudan: Agence France Presse reports Agence France Presse, May 31 General Khetim said that the mainstream rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) "tried to stir up" people in mainly animist and Christian areas to blow up a pipeline stretching for 1,610 kilometres (about 1,000 miles), thorugh six states, from the southeast to the Red Sea. However, "all sectors of the people are now protecting the petroleum, not only the armed forces," according to Khetim, who said the armed forces "are capable of defending the homeland and its soil however long the battle is." Africa's largest nation is rich in oil, but more than 15 years of war between successive regimes and the SPLA, which is seeking to end Arabised, Islamic domination of the south, has severely disrupted production as well as leaving an estimated one million dead and hundreds of thousands of people displaced. The Moslem fundamentalist-backed government of President Omar al-Beshir, who first came to power in a June 1989 military coup, wants to encourage a renewal of foreign investment, the resumption of oil production and other activity as well as mending fences with its neighbours. It has in the past two years seen through legislation enabling the return of political parties under a new constitution, though leaders of the movements banned after the coup, who have joined the SPLA in a National Democratic Alliance (NDA), have dismissed the measures as far from sufficent. The eminence grise of the regime, Hassan al-Turabi, howefer- this week said that petroleum and other development projects have "encouraged huge foreign investment in Sudan, and several nations which used to take a hardline against Sudan have now eased their stances to catch up with this investment bid." Turabi, who is secretary-general of the ruling National Congress movement also told a rally at Nyala in the western South Darfur state that people must remain vigilant since "the Islamic experiment in Sudan has become a target of conspiracies by enemies," the official Al-Anbaa daily reported Friday. Khetim, for his part, told the mujahedeen fighters that the army backs current efforts for national reconciliation, but warned that moves to bring this about "will not be at the expense of the country's territories and constitutional and political gains". With the completion of technical aspects of oil production, Khetim said, " the challenge has now become of a security and military nature." The muhajedeen forces were set to join the special brigade being formed by the Popular Defence Forces, which consist mainly of militia units set up by Khartoum to operate with the regular army. Oil itself is an evident source of much conflict in Sudan, recently in the southern Al-Wihda State, where battles have recently been reported for control over which faction guards the resources. The official SUNA news agency on Friday said the army had officially confirmed that an allied militia leader, Tito Biel, on May 3 defected with his men to the mainstream southern SPLA rebels led by Colonel John Garang. Late last month, Biel began attacking oil installations in Al-Wihda State, according to an unnamed military headquarters quoted by SUNA.