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Sudan: Appeal to G8

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006 @ 16:39 UTC

by Luisetta Mudie

Countries:: Sudan
Topics:: Disaster, Ethnicity, Human Rights, Humanitarian, Refugees, Relief & Rescue, War & Conflict, International Relations

G8 leaders meeting in St. Petersburg on July 15-17 should firmly tell the Sudanese government that it must immediately accept the deployment of a United Nations force to protect civilians in Darfur, Human Rights Watch Africa says.

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Ashis Biswas

I have two questions to ask of the humanitarian crisis in Sudan. One, which country benefits the most from either the arms or the oil trade in Sudan? Two, which country is the largest supplier of food and emergency aid to the relief camps in southern Sudan and northern Kenya?
Funnily enough, in both cases it is the USA. Is it policy oversight or plain profiteering in the face of human misery?
Yours etc.,
ashbis

# 2006-07-25 at 7:12 am

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