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Africa Horn
Sudan: Govt seeks $1B in Loan from Russia for Army
2006-10-21
(SomaliNet) The Sudanese Defense Minister has requested for a $1 billion arms loan from Moscow through Russian officials, to buy more military airplanes for Sudan, - Russian Daily Friday. The Sudanese minister Abdelrahim Hussein made this request while holding talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Thursday, Oct. 19. The Sudanese official asked Russia to sell military jets and helicopters to Sudan. Moscow has not given any reply yet.
Useful to pound Darfur or re-open the war in the south.
According to the paper, Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir sent a letter to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, asking to give away sell a large consignment of military jets and helicopters to his country. Meanwhile, the Sudanese Defense Minister Abdelrahim Hussein went to Moscow as a special envoy of President Omar el-Bashir.
Posted by:Steve White

#6  Old Patriot

The Chinese already have that oil source wrapped up. And they also lack the morals to care about the plight of locals.
Posted by: Snease Shaiting3550   2006-10-21 13:49  

#5  Sudan has huge, undeveloped (as yet) oil reserves. Russia will do anything to help keep that oil out of Western hands, including making such large cash give-aways. The Russian people will get screwed once again. Putin = Brezhnev.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2006-10-21 13:28  

#4  Dignity, Jim, must preserve dignity.
Posted by: Steve White   2006-10-21 11:24  

#3  Why are they even calling it a loan? They know full well that it will never get paid back.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2006-10-21 10:22  

#2  The Russian media portrays Putin' follies - Iran, now Sudan - as a realignment parallel to NATO. And the Chinese took over Canadian oil operations that became too hot to handle.

Let's bite the bullet, and expand NATO.
Posted by: Snease Shaiting3550   2006-10-21 04:48  

#1  Why not CHINA: MANILA TIMES-Other > CHINA'S GRAND AFRICAN STRATEGY!?
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-10-21 01:14  

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