Violations of peace agreement should trigger further sanctions (1 July 2011) With only days before South Sudan is due to secede on 9 July, Sudan is the closest to war that it has been since the...
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Crude Calculations: The Continued Lack of Transparency over Oil in Sudan
(Extract) With a referendum on independence for Southern Sudan just days away, oil sector transparency is now more important than ever in preserving the fragile peace. Suspicions over the sharing of...
Tangible Transparency - Ensuring a Transparent and Verifiable Oil Deal in Sudan, October 2010
Purpose of this Paper The purpose of this paper is to provide suggestions for ways in which a new, post-referendum oil deal between north and south Sudan could be made as transparent as possible in...
UN meeting on Sudan a missed opportunity to address critical issue of oil revenue transparency
Global Witness chastised participants of today's high-level meeting on Sudan, held on the sidelines of the UN summit in New York, for failing to adequately address the important issue of oil revenue...
Global Witness welcomes new commitment to transparency in Sudan
Global Witness today participated in a landmark transparency seminar in Khartoum organised by His Excellency the Minister for Petroleum for the Government of National Unity, Lual Deng, and His...
Renewing the Pledge: Re-Engaging the Guarantors to the Sudanese Comprehensive Peace Agreement
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS Renewing the PledgeThe clock is ticking fast towards what might be the most important date in modern sudanese history - two referenda in Sudan that are likely to...
Six months before critical referendum, Sudan alarmingly unprepared
With six months until a referendum on Southern independence, Sudan is alarmingly unprepared according to a new report published today by a global coalition of 26 humanitarian and human rights...
Global Witness uncovers evidence of oil exploration in Darfur
Satellite evidence obtained by campaign group Global Witness suggests an area in the far north of Darfur in Sudan is being explored for oil. Darfur, a region roughly the size of Spain, has been torn...
New evidence confirms oil revenue transparency still eludes Sudan
Large discrepancies persist between the oil production data published by the government of Sudan and those published by the main Chinese oil company operating in the country, Global Witness said...
Transparency around oil revenues crucial to keeping the peace in Sudan
A fair and transparent arrangement for sharing and monitoring the revenues from Sudan's oil fields is critical to preventing a return to war between the north and south, said campaign group Global...
North and south Sudan to investigate oil figures following Global Witness report
A week after the launch of its report on lack of transparency in the oil revenue sharing agreement between north and south Sudan, campaign group Global Witness has welcomed indications from the...
Oil production figures underpinning Sudan's peace agreement don't add up, warns Global Witness
The 2005 peace agreement which brought to an end the conflict between north and south Sudan - one of Africa's longest-running and most bloody wars - was based on an agreement to share oil revenues...
Sudan: Norwegian oil development assistance risks fuelling conflict and corruption, warns Global Witness
Norway's Oil for Development programme does not have sufficient safeguards in place to ensure that the money does not end up fuelling conflict and corruption, warned Global Witness [1] today. A new...
Fuelling mistrust: The need for transparency in Sudan's oil industry
SUMMARY Background In 2005, a historic peace agreement brought an end to Africa's longest-running civil war - the 22-year conflict between north and south Sudan. Tensions over the distribution of the...