Darfur bleeds in the great scramble for Sudan’s oil

For mile after mile, there are no people. The huts they once inhabited are blackened shells. The fields they once worked are empty. There will be no harvest this year, just as there has been no harvest since the outbreak of war.

.. China’s economic boom means that the quest for overseas oil is a central goal of its foreign policy. Sudan has 6.3 billion barrels of proved reserves which Beijing has begun exploiting on a grand scale. The China National Petroleum Company, a state-owned behemoth, has invested

Both Russia and China have supplied tanks, heavy artillery and fighter aircraft. America and the European Union have unilateral arms embargoes on Khartoum. But, astonishingly, there is no UN embargo on Sudan. Why? Because Russia and China would veto one.

Daily Telegraph