Darfur war spreads - Chad, Central African Republic hit - Reuters

[applegrove]

Darfur war spreads
Chad, Central African Republic hit

Sudan raises objections to UN help
Nov. 18, 2006. 01:00 AM
OPHEERA MCDOOM
REUTERS NEWS AGENCY


KHARTOUM—The Darfur conflict escalated into neighbouring countries yesterday even as Sudan for the first time accepted the principle of allowing UN troops to help end one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.

U.S. and British leaders hailed a "breakthrough" agreement brokered by outgoing UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, but Khartoum was still raising objections both to the size of a peacekeeping force and any UN sharing of command with African troops.

Shortly after Annan declared the outcome of a high-level meeting in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, Chad announced plans to send troops to help Central African Republic confront cross-border rebels in what it said was a spreading regional war waged by Sudan.

The announcement signalled an escalation of the Darfur conflict, which has spilled an explosive mixture of refugees, rebels, militia and bandits over Sudan's western borders into Chad and Central African Republic.

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[jwirr]

1. It is only a matter of time for that continent with global warming

making matters worse. When crops fail, rainfall ceases, etc. then mass migrations will cause conflicts between various peoples. This is bigger than Darfur. The Africans are especially in trouble because their entire continent is extremely vulnerable to the effects of global warming.

[applegrove]

2. And vulnerable to oil. It is the oil under Darfur which is the issue now.

And reason why the ethnic cleansing. I don't think Khartoum would go through all this just to give some more land to tribal elders from the north. It is that nobody in the north is sitting on oil. That is the issue.

[jwirr]

4. Thanks, I didn't realize that Africa had any resources left for us to

steal. How far do the oil companies have their ugly fingers into this pie?

[applegrove]

5. The Chinese are into this oil. But really it is the independence movement

of a place that suddenly has oil that gave the excuse for ethnic cleansing (as if there could be such a thing as an excuse). Khartoum just made a deal with the southerners for some form of half independence. Then the independence movement in Darfur (West) started attacking government army. And the government responded with the janjadaweed and murders and rapes and ethnic cleansing. I don't think the oil companies themselves are involved in this yet. Governments-on-oil are often just as bloodthirsty (if not more) than the oil companies themselves and this is truly a case of that.

[still_one]

3. no surprise, and also no surprise that the MSM would rather not talk about it

[nam78_two]

6. on Edit -just K, no R

Didn't catch it on time.