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Africa Oil Watch: August 2004
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Sunday, August 22, 2004. UN fears Sudan crisis worsening and warns of refugee exodus. Aug 20 CNN report. The UN warns that thousands of displaced persons in the Darfur region of Sudan could cross to Chad if no credible measures are taken to make them feel secure inside. Jean-Marie Fakhouri, the new director of operations in Sudan for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, made his warning Friday two days after he met 300 representatives for about 30,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs). UN is airlif...
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Africa Oil Watch: October 2004
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Sunday, October 03, 2004. UN letter that raised questions about a series on the U.N. Oil-for-Food program aired by Fox News Sept. 19. Here below is a copy of two reports featured at Fox news on the Oil-for-Food program. The first is a copy of Fox's response to the UNs letter that raised questions about a series on the U.N. Oil-for-Food program that aired Sept. 19 on "Breaking Point." The second is a copy of the UN letter. Brian Gaffney, executive producer of the hour-long show, declared that our sole obj...
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Africa Oil Watch: September 2005
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Wednesday, September 14, 2005. Sudan: Spotlight on Darfur 1 and The Darfur Collection. Huge thanks to Catez Stevens in New Zealand for initiating and hosting Spotlight on Darfur 1. A great round up of posts authored by 14 different bloggers from around the world. Catez also produced The Darfur Collection. Please email Catez at Allthings2all. If you have a post for the next Spotlight on Darfur 2 or 3. Picture courtesy Tim Sweetman's post Let Us Weep. Thanks to Global Voices for their third post. At the sa...
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Africa Oil Watch: October 2005
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Thursday, October 06, 2005. Friedhelm Eronat and Cliveden Sudan named as buyer of Darfur oil rights. Further to next post below, here is a June 10, 2005 report via The Guardian. By David Leigh and Adrian Gatton. Note, Channel 4 News in their special report last night, interviewed JEM rebel Ahmad Hussein Adam]. A London representative of the Darfur rebels last night called for oil exploration to stop until there was a peace settlement. "The only beneficiaries are the ruling elite," Ahmad Hussein Adam ...
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Africa Oil Watch: AGI: Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative
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Friday, November 06, 2009. AGI: Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative. From The Office of Tony Blair. November 05, 2009. Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative to create development through good governance becomes charity. The Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative has become a registered UK charity after creating a unique 'hands-on' approach to development and poverty eradication over the past eighteen months. Tony Blair, founder of the Africa Governance Initiative (AGI), said:. The developed world ...
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North Korea Watch: North Korean refugees plead case against Kim Jong-il
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Thursday, December 10, 2009. North Korean refugees plead case against Kim Jong-il. Refugees from North Korea are in The Hague in an attempt to convince the International Criminal Court (ICC) to prosecute Kim Jong-il for crimes against humanity. From NRC Handelsblad, 10 December 2009 17:31:. North Korean refugees plead case against Kim Jong-il. The Chinese sent me back with frozen feet. The North Korean secret police beat me on my feet, and drove a steel pin through them. My legs started rotting a...Hye-r...
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North Korea Watch: September 2004
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Sunday, September 19, 2004. Sudan Wants to Expand Economic Ties With S. Korea. SOUTH KOREA: Visiting Sudanese Foreign Affairs Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail has called for further economic cooperation with South Korea in sectors such as electronics, textiles, cars and the oil industry. After signing an agreement to avoid double taxation with his South Korean counterpart Friday, Ismail said this agreement and his visit to Seoul will help boost the economic relationship of the two countries,. The minister, ...
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North Korea Watch: Israel says seized North Korean arms were for Hamas, Hezbollah
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Friday, June 11, 2010. Israel says seized North Korean arms were for Hamas, Hezbollah. Israel says seized North Korean arms were for Hamas, Hezbollah. Report from Reuters - Wednesday, 12 May 2010 3:19am EDT. Reporting by Yoko Kubota; Editing by Jeremy Laurence):. TOKYO) - The Israeli foreign minister said on Wednesday that North Korean weapons seized in Thailand last year were headed for Islamist groups Hamas and Hezbollah. Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon said on Monday Israel was in a proxy w...
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Africa Oil Watch: March 2009
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009. Invisible hands: The secret world of the oil fixer (Ken Silverstein). From Harper's Magazine, March 2009. The secret world of the oil fixer. With the global financial markets now in crisis, the two men spoke of some old comrades who had fallen on hard times. They’re all selling their yachts, Eronat said with a grim look. One friend, an Uzbek named Sascha, had $44 billion, and now he’s down to a billion. As he and the Austrian discussed the problem, a curious negotiation began to ...
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