Obama Sends 100 Troops to Fight Ugandan Rebels
By BNO
In a letter to Congress, Obama informed that in the next months further U.S. troops will be shipped out to other African countries as well, including South Sudan, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29408.htm
Fresh Uganda Oil Find 'Africas' Biggest'
By The Times
Paul Atherton, chief financial officer, told The Times that the wider field it was developing, dubbed Buffalo-Giraffe, had several 'billions of barrels of oil in place'.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29410.htm
Ugandas' oil contracts leaked - a bad deal made worse
The repeated claims by the Ugandan government and the oil companies that Uganda has received a very good deal and the best in the region are not only a fiction, but were reliant on the real terms of the contracts being kept secret. While the contracts will deliver vast profits to Tullow Oil and Heritage Oil, the contracts will prevent the Ugandan people from receiving their due benefits.
http://www.platformlondon.org/carbonweb/showitem.asp?article=375&parent=9
Oil extraction and the potential for domestic instability in Uganda
The paper identifies and discusses in detail three sources of domestic volatility that may arise as a result of oil development.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29411.htm
Uganda: Oil could cause war
The attacks are by armed gangs suspected to be rebels of the FDLR, LRA, and the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF). In the ongoing campaign in DR Congo, President Joseph Kabila is being criticised for failing to restore peace in this vital area.
http://www.independent.co.ug/cover-story/4683-oil-could-cause-war
More US troops for Uganda?
The very presence of the American troops in particular areas provokes all kinds of extremists to attack the Americans and Americans will use it as a pretext to increase their presence.
http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/10/17/58862982.html
From Information Clearing House
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Uganda: Obama launches next African war with 100 troops
News Digests Wire
10/16/11
President Barack Obama announced a new US intervention in Africa on Friday, deploying around 100 troops to Uganda to assist in suppression of the Lords' Resistance Army. The LRA and its leader, Joseph Kony, have terrorized central Africa for two decades, carrying out civilian massacres and conscripting child soldiers. The area of operations for the LRA, and the US operation, encompasses parts of Uganda, Sudan, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo...
http://wire.news-digests.com/archives/74
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=American+troops
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=interven
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Big+Oil
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In a letter to Congress, Obama informed that in the next months further U.S. troops will be shipped out to other African countries as well, including South Sudan, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29408.htm
Fresh Uganda Oil Find 'Africas' Biggest'
By The Times
Paul Atherton, chief financial officer, told The Times that the wider field it was developing, dubbed Buffalo-Giraffe, had several 'billions of barrels of oil in place'.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29410.htm
Ugandas' oil contracts leaked - a bad deal made worse
The repeated claims by the Ugandan government and the oil companies that Uganda has received a very good deal and the best in the region are not only a fiction, but were reliant on the real terms of the contracts being kept secret. While the contracts will deliver vast profits to Tullow Oil and Heritage Oil, the contracts will prevent the Ugandan people from receiving their due benefits.
http://www.platformlondon.org/carbonweb/showitem.asp?article=375&parent=9
Oil extraction and the potential for domestic instability in Uganda
The paper identifies and discusses in detail three sources of domestic volatility that may arise as a result of oil development.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29411.htm
Uganda: Oil could cause war
The attacks are by armed gangs suspected to be rebels of the FDLR, LRA, and the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF). In the ongoing campaign in DR Congo, President Joseph Kabila is being criticised for failing to restore peace in this vital area.
http://www.independent.co.ug/cover-story/4683-oil-could-cause-war
More US troops for Uganda?
The very presence of the American troops in particular areas provokes all kinds of extremists to attack the Americans and Americans will use it as a pretext to increase their presence.
http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/10/17/58862982.html
From Information Clearing House
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Uganda: Obama launches next African war with 100 troops
News Digests Wire
10/16/11
President Barack Obama announced a new US intervention in Africa on Friday, deploying around 100 troops to Uganda to assist in suppression of the Lords' Resistance Army. The LRA and its leader, Joseph Kony, have terrorized central Africa for two decades, carrying out civilian massacres and conscripting child soldiers. The area of operations for the LRA, and the US operation, encompasses parts of Uganda, Sudan, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo...
http://wire.news-digests.com/archives/74
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=American+troops
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=interven
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Big+Oil
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Starmail - 16. Okt, 06:18
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