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Oil-rich South Sudan teeters on the brink
South Sudan this week saw heavy fighting with as many as 500 killed or wounded, as army factions clashed in the capital following months of political tension in the oil-rich nation after the president dismissed his deputy.
President Salva Kiir, clad in military fatigues rather than his signature cowboy hat and trademark black suit, said the army had foiled a coup attempt by a group of soldiers loyal to the former vice president, Riek Machar.
Kiir and Machar were key figures in the ranks of the rebel South Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, which fought a 21-year civil war against the Sudanese government in Khartoum.
But since his dismissal in July, Machar has been leading a faction against Kiir’s ruling party, and has also announced he will run for presidency in the 2015 elections.
Political tensions have been high in recent weeks, and the fighting Wednesday has already spread to the rural state of Jonglei, prompting fears of a wider conflict in a nation where 50% of the population live below the poverty line.
Although the oilfields are located in the southern part of the country, far from the capital city of Juba, there are fears a broader conflict could disrupt oil production. South Sudan pumps around 200,000 b/d and is the country’s main source of revenue.
The instability comes weeks after South Sudan started producing oil following a 15-month shutdown caused by a row with Sudan over pipeline fees. Both Juba and Khartoum are heavily dependent on oil revenues and the issue over which country governs the disputed oil-rich Abeyi province, and which is entitled to profits from the sale of oil, remains a contentious issue.
Some 75% of the oil lies in the South but all the infrastructure to export it is in the north. Juba is undergoing talks with its neigbors to provide alternative export routes, which may or may not solve it challenges with Khartoum.
As long as the border is not demarcated, the status of adjoining oil fields will not be certain and ownership is likely to be a point of contention. South Sudan’s foreign minister Barnaba Marial Benjamim has called for calm, insisting that those reponsible for the failed coup will be punished.
The real tragedy is for the people of both countries who have never known peace.
13 Comments on "Oil-rich South Sudan teeters on the brink"
noobtube on Fri, 20th Dec 2013 6:25 pm
Looks like the United States (and Europe) are getting ready to install a new puppet to terrorize Africans.
Makes it much easier for the invaders (United States and Europeans through their corporations) to steal from Africans, with their hand-picked puppets.
J-Gav on Fri, 20th Dec 2013 10:09 pm
Oh dear, not another western ‘success story!?”
DC on Fri, 20th Dec 2013 10:30 pm
Yea, I remember the CBC was all aglow not long ago with there AP outsourced story about how awesome it was we had another country in the world. Not one mention of how US gov’t, corporate, the usual crowd of international, as well as locally cultivated US backed NGOs, were behind the partition in the first place.
http://globalresearch.ca/sudan-protests-and-the-politics-of-regime-change/31977
Regime change and partition is the name of the game now. Destabilize states, murder there leaders if opportunity presents itself, carve up the country into various mutually hostile enclaves. Just make sure no viable nation-state remains that can sign trade agreements with anyone the US disapproves of. IE, China, Russia etc. Lastly, US corporation’s head on in and behind systematically looting the former nation of whatever it has of value. Bonus points for compliant western media completely refusing to cover the story, instead running stories about the weather, the Kardashians, gay-marriage, whatever.
200k Bpd, is hardly what I would call ‘oil-rich’. Its not peanuts either, but its not exactly texas over there. By local standards, its lots of money to be sure. But that 200ks real value is when it doesn’t end up in China, powering their economic development. Of course, western oil corps wont say no to free money(oil), but the real goal is to create terrorism on the ground, and undermine Chinas investments.
Arthur on Sat, 21st Dec 2013 11:28 am
Looks like the United States (and Europe) are getting ready to install a new puppet to terrorize Africans.
BS. What’s happening in Sudan is a ‘clash of civilizations’ between Muslims in the north, trying to impose Sharia law and black Christians in the south.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sudanese_Civil_War
It is estimated that as many as 200,000 Southern Sudanese and Nuba children and women have been taken into slavery from Southern Sudanese towns and villages during the war.
Bu-bu-but I thought that slavery was done by white guys only? I am shocked!
After the start of the second civil war, American assistance dropped, and was eventually cancelled in 1987.
You can blame the US of a lot of things, but not of an overarching involvement in the Sudan.
The most significant thing to note is the rigid separation between Muslim Arabs in northern Africa and Christian blacks in the south. Welcome to the multi-polar world of tomorrow as described by Samuel Huntington:
– Confucius in China
– Buddhism in India
– Shinto in Japan
– Islam in Maghreb, Arabia, Turkey, western China and Shi’ite flavor in Iran
– Christianity in Euro-Siberia and sub-Saharan part of Africa and (if things go terribly wrong from a European perspective):
– Judaism in Anglosphere
Arthur on Sat, 21st Dec 2013 11:45 am
Here is a map of the the world of the 21st century according to Samuel Huntington:
http://octavianracu.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/clash_of_civilizations_world_map.png
What’s happening in the Sudan as we speak is aptly predicted by Huntington.
Huntington was wrong in automatically assuming that the West would continue to exist on the basis of common Christian heritage, a point he reluctantly admitted in his last book titled “Who Are We?: The Challenges to America’s National Identity”. And even Huntington was too PC to acknowledge the dominant role of a certain minority at the top of the US power structure, that will not rest until the last remnants of WASP power will be totally destroyed.
And Huntington made the mistake to emphasize the differences between Europe and Russia too much, both of Christian heritage. Russia will be driven in the arms of Europe by the rising power of China alone as well as the resource situation and close proximity (in contrast there are no pipelines under the Atlantic and never will be).
Norm on Sat, 21st Dec 2013 12:08 pm
Gonna be like ‘road warriors’. Except these people dont have cars & dune buggies (maybe they have the swim goggles, or we could send them some).
DC on Sat, 21st Dec 2013 12:10 pm
You know Arthur, your right. There IS a clash of civilizations.
One ‘civilisation’ has the world largest corporations, corrupt gov’ts, drones, satellite imagery, the worlds MSM, trillions in ‘defence spending’ a global spy system, and the entire lot of it is ultimately controlled by a handful of old men that would easily fit into a old folks home. Now that ‘civilization’ sometimes call itself ‘xtian’, but In reality, they are whatever they need or want to be as the situation dictates. Like a snake shedding its skin. That ‘civiliaztion’ has only one religion that matters, corporatism. Everything else is just window dressing.
The other ‘civilization’ basically has mud, sticks or whatever paltry resources the other civ lets them have. Yes, religion is often times the only thing they have that, at least, superficially, provides some sense of dignity and unity.
You do understand that the US and its agents are highly skilled at creating chaos right? Overpopulation, a degraded environment along with western-trained and equipped ‘militants’ and you can have all the chaos you ever wanted for pennies on the dollar. Poor, overpopulated nations are easily destabilized. Clash of ‘civilizations’, the way most people understand it, is a nice cover narrative for corporate-capitalisms real aims, the utter subjugation of peoples right to there own resources and culture-everywhere.
Huntington knew full well, back in 1993, as well as you do, with the artificial ‘struggle’ between ‘good bible thump’n capitalist democracy lovin cowboys, and the heathen,atheist, gulag lovin commies over, that a new justification for amerikas imperial wars needed. Amerika couldnt point anymore and go, ‘look scary commies’, in a place 95% of amerikan couldnt find on a map. Amerikans had no trouble harnessing there backwards Xtian theology when it came to fighting ‘commies’. So it should come as no suprise that Xtianity proved its malleable worth once again, to line ignorant amerikans and their allies up against the next big ‘thing’, the scary muslim.
As long as the partitions line up neatly with western military and corporate objectives, more or less, then thats where the partitions will occur. If the lines done match up, then the groups will be driven out of one area and into another until they do. Dont doubt for one second washington and its allies havent already drawn up partition maps for Syria for example. And the maps they draw, all have plenty of room for GCC pipelines on there way to Europe. The parts not needed for that? Well they can twist in the wind and keep on fighting each other over useless sand.
Helps give that whole ‘clash’ narrative
a vaguely respectable sheen.
Arthur on Sat, 21st Dec 2013 1:24 pm
DC, while it is difficult to disagree with a lot of what you say, I think that your view is too north-American-centric, even in your clear opposition to corporate culture. Huntington’s message was written at the end of the Cold War and Huntington set himself to task of answering the question: ‘what is next?’. Yes, the US led West had won, but Huntington correctly predicted that western supremacy would be short-lived and that a multipolar world order, based on reemerging ancient traditions, religions and culture, would be next, something that can be observed most clearly today in the Muslim world and Russia. A message btw, that is extremely compatible with the reality of gradual resource depletion (“peak-oil”), ending the pre-conditions necessary for a globalist world culture, that is NOT going to happen after all, unless someone invents something like low cost cold-fusion, giving 150 virtual energy slaves to every world citizen. Only then globalism would win after all.
In 2000 I was still very worried that the US empire might actually achieve global reach. Today I am very confident that this is not going to happen after all, and that old-school corporatism and corresponding state of permanent growth is on the way out. And what is happening in the Sudan has little to do with the US. People on this planet are not the US puppets many think they are, but have motivations and aspirations all of their own. The current clash in the Sudan is mainly Arab/Black, Muslim/Christian. There is not enough oil in the Sudan to justify US meddling.
P.S. the leading religion in India is Hinduism, not Buddhism (self-correction previous post).
Makati1 on Sat, 21st Dec 2013 1:39 pm
Arthur if you think that the US is not involved, you are very naive. They have been behind most, if not all of Africa’s unrest for the last 60 years or so. The CIA is everywhere, meddling in every one’s business. Even yours.
Arthur on Sat, 21st Dec 2013 3:39 pm
The US clearly was behind the instigation of the ‘civil war’ in Syria, via their proxies Qatar and SA. But the US was NOT in any significant way behind the uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt or now Sudan. Reason: there is nothing of interest in these countries, or the country (Egypt) was already a US satellite. Not everybody on this planet is a puppet of the US. In fact most are not.
DC on Sat, 21st Dec 2013 7:21 pm
Arthur…I expect better from you. I will grant you that the US is not in 100% of cases, the INSTIGATOR of every global dustup. However, when you say the US had nothing to do with Egypt(as instigators) for example, your being truthful, but not honest. No doubt a lot of people in that over-populated rat-hole didnt care for Mubarak, a general in a 3 piece suit, front man for a US proxy military junta. Once it became clear to the US, that Morisi wasnt ‘their man in Cairo either’, they heavily intervened to make sure the outcome was favorable to US interests.
So after all the trouble and deaths, and uprising in Egypt, what did the people end up with, at very end?
The SAME military junta in charge they started with(less Mubarak) ROFL!
And Im sorry you believe that, but SUDAN has the US’s sticky fingers all over it as well.
Arthur on Sat, 21st Dec 2013 9:25 pm
DC, concerning Egypt there is no difference of opinion between us. The anti-Mubarak uprising was grassroots and an embarrassement for Washington and Morsi was NOT Washington’s candidate. Finally Washington gave the nod to their only reliable ally in the region, the Egyptian military, and BAU returned. Nasty little ptoblem called democracy elegantly solved.
The world is full of assholes, located both in the Sudan and Washington. The difference is that the latter has much more options than the first, but the idea of the ‘noble avage’ is a myth.
Arthur on Sat, 21st Dec 2013 9:26 pm
savage.