Oil May Allow Sudan to Escape Sanctionsâ Pain
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Sanctions aimed at pressuring Sudan to take action in Darfur are likely to have limited effects on the countryâs oil production and exports.
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A volatile mixture of oil and weapons is preventing the United Nations from taking punitive action against Sudan for continued atrocities in the province of Darfur, according to human rights activists and African experts.
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The United States yesterday softened its threat of sanctions against Sudan&#39;s oil industry in a new UN draft resolution demanding a halt to the violence in Darfur.
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The United States put forward a new draft UN resolution on Tuesday, threatening to impose sanctions on Sudan&#39;s oil industry if the Sudanese government fails to end the bloodshed in its troubled Darfur region.
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The threat of sanctions against Sudan will only be lifted when Khartoum makes good on its pledge to allow United Nations peacekeepers into Darfur, the top US diplomat for Africa said Monday.
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Declining oil reserves and soaring prices could see desperate nations overturning a ban on exploration in the last untouched frontier -- Antarctica, an oil expert told a scientific conference.
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UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. Security Council approved a resolution Saturday threatening oil sanctions against Sudan unless the government acts to rein in Arab militias accused of violence in the Darfur region that the United States has called genocide...
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NAIROBI, Kenya - On one of the more hopeful days in a long time for ending Sudan&#39;s dreadful cycle of violence, the man who has spent the past three years trying to broker a peace was voicing cautious optimism that maybe this was the time.
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The U.N. Security Council  adopted a resolution on Saturday that threatens to consider oil  sanctions against Sudan if Khartoum does not stop atrocities in  the Darfur region.
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From excessive force by their security   guards to helping support corrupt regimes, oil companies have   long faced accusations of helping trigger human rights abuses   in the far-flung countries where they operate.
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A U.S.-backed United Nations resolution threatening oil sanctions for the violence in Sudan's Darfur region will only make it harder for the government to calm the insurrection there, a Sudanese official said Sunday.
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The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution on Saturday that threatens to consider oil sanctions against Sudan if Khartoum does not stop atrocities in the Darfur region.
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UNITED NATIONS - A divided U.N. Security Council approved a resolution Saturday threatening oil sanctions against Sudan unless the government reins in Arab militias blamed for a killing spree in Darfur and ordered an investigation of whether the attacks constitute genocide...
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KHARTOUM, Sudan - A U.S.-backed United Nations resolution threatening oil sanctions for the violence in Sudan's Darfur region will only make it harder for the government to calm the insurrection there, a Sudanese official said Sunday.    Despite his criticism, the foreign ministry official, Mutrif Sideeq, said his government would try to comply with the resolution meant to force Khartoum to rein in ethnic Arab militias accused of killing ethnic African villagers and creating an even deadlier humanitarian crisis...
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A US-backed United Nations resolution threatening sanctions over the violence in Darfur will only make it harder for the government to calm an insurrection in the region, a Sudanese official said today.
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From excessive force by their security  guards to helping support corrupt regimes, oil companies have  long faced accusations of helping trigger human rights abuses  in the far-flung countries where they operate.
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Sudan faced the prospect of crippling oil sanctions yesterday after the United Nations passed another resolution demanding an end to the violence in Darfur.