Will Southern Sudan continue to consider oil as a curse?

“We can’t stand aside from the problems of the communities in which we work. We can’t try to operate in splendid isolation and cut ourselves off from local realities behind a security fence” Sir John Browne (Group Chief Executive, BP Amoco) delivering the Elliott Lecture at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, 1998.

The lives of the poor have not significantly improved since the arrival of the oil industry in those indicated areas as measured by the provision of basic services of healthcare, education, housing and compensation package for affected zones. Instead, the poorest people have suffered disproportionately from the increase in oil pollution related diseases, political violence, proliferation of illegal arms and environmental problems, as they are more dependent on their immediate physical surroundings than NCP riches or oil companies.
Sudan Tribune