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Sudan starts oil exploration in South Darfur

October 31, 2010 (KHARTOUM) — Abdel-Hamid Mousa Kasha, Governor of South Darfur state announced Sunday that oil exploration has started in the eastern part of the troubled state.

South Darfur governor Abdel-Hamid Mousa Kasha (SUNA)
South Darfur governor Abdel-Hamid Mousa Kasha (SUNA)
Oil is seen as crucial to provide the necessary funds to develop the war ravaged region of Darfur. Discussions in Doha between the government and a rebel group have included for the first time this issue.

Oil exploration has started in three locations in eastern South Darfur precisely: Addilla Barbar, Um-Radm Al-kori and Zarqa Um-Hadida, said Kasha today in a speech delivered at the inauguration of the Commercial Real Estate Bank branch in Nyala.

The governor also said that local authorities have secured the area ending activities of “armed gangs” referring to rebel groups.

However he did not disclose the name of the firm working in the areas.

This week, Sudanese government and rebel Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM), before to close talks on wealth sharing file, agreed to allocate 2 per cent of oil revenue to oil producing districts.

An Arab investment group, Ansan Wikfs, is working in partnership with Sudapet, on Block 12A in a remote area of North Darfur near the border with Libya.

(ST)

3 Comments

  • Chuanga-enoor.
    Chuanga-enoor.

    Sudan starts oil exploration in South Darfur
    Arabs in Sudan are killing black African indigeneous people because of their oil they killed South Sudanese because of their oil and now oil has been descovered in Darfur ,that also cause the clearing up of blacks in that region in order to get their oil, not knowing that oil is human’s and animals deposits thousands of years back in the land where oil was found.

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