2009

The long marginalized Sudanese have not benefited significantly, if at all, from oil development. Instead, displacement linked to oil development remains a problem for some marginalized Sudanese, in particular the local people in the oil areas. Oil companies have rapidly expanded oil activities in ‘peacetime’, pressuring some people to leave their ancestral homelands with no compensation.

The Global Witness report, Fuelling Mistrust: the need for transparency in Sudan’s oil industry, is the first public analysis of Sudan’s oil figures. It documents how the oil figures published by the Government of National Unity in Khartoum are smaller than the equivalent figures published by the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), the operator of the oil blocks.(text version)

Satellite image analysis of changes in land use patters during the oil war, showing decreases in agricultural activity of up to 80% by 2003.

This report summarizes three workshops designed to explore opportunities to avoid political violence in Sudan through the end of 2011.

The report provides an assessment of the overall situation in the country since the previous report, dated 30 January 2009, as well as an update on the activities of the United Nations Mission in the Sudan