Excerpt from an Eric Margolis article. The source url is given below.
Such affairs wouldn't surprise me since all of Sudan's recent civil wars have been proxy wars. Add Chad's as well... Hell, the Western Saharan/Moroccan conflict was a proxy war as well.
Coverage of Maghrebi/Central and East African crypto-politics tends to be VERY shallow in the west. This is a bit of a shame in my opinion...
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==== In recent times, two anti-Khartoum insurgencies simmered in Darfur, backed by neighbouring Chad and Eritrea, both of whom are U.S. clients. CIA has reportedly supplied arms and money to Darfur's rebels. Washington recently developed interest in Chad, which has oil and gas deposits.
Washington is using Darfur's rebels, as it did southern Sudan's 30-year-old insurgency, to destabilize the Khartoum regime, whose policies have been deemed insufficiently pro-American and too Islamic. More important to the increasingly energy-hungry U.S., Sudan has oil, as well as that other precious commodity, water.
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Toronto/Eric_Margolis/2004/08/15/583447.html
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