VOL. XLI

No. 05

2-February-1998

SUDAN

Sudan Rebels Claim Attacks Against CNPC

The spokesman for Sudan's People's Liberation Army (SPLA), Mr. Yasir Sa'id Araman, toldLondon-based Arabic-language daily al-Hayat on 28 January that his group has beenattacking "oil installations" in the Bentui area in the southern Upper Nileregion where the Chinese National Petroleum Corporation, (CNPC) is operating. CNPCrecently acquired Block No. 6 in the Muglad basin which contains the small Abu Ghabra,Sharaf and...