Peace for Oil

Sudan's 20 year war reached oil wealth-sharing agreement between the Muslim north and Christian south. Perhaps the worst war we know the least about, the longest in Africa, it cost 2 million lives, uprooted 4 million others and has been a deathspring of human and women's rights abuses. Osama camping there is but a footnote compared to the terror inside this ravaged country.

Perhaps this is a little off-topic, but I long for constructive foreign policy news like this. Sudan has long had a good case for military and political intervention if it weren't for geographic, ethnic and cultural distance. Perhaps Powell deserves a little credit for giving it modest attention and pressure.

Power sharing and territorial issues remain, but with religious and resource issues put aside, real progress can be made.

Related: AfricaPundit, Uganda, Eritrea, Sudan's Perfect War and War for Oil in Sudan.

Comments

[Lee Bryant]

Thanks for that Ross! Good news like this doesn't come along every day, and precious few people highlight it when it does.

Happy New Year to you and yours.

[Ross Mayfield]

Unfortunately its not as much of interest to people without a political science background like you and me.