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In the light of the dramatic bottle-necks in financing famine relief in Darfur the Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV) called on Tuesday for the Sudan to pay part of its income from the export of oil into a relief fund for the starving in Darfur. „It is scandalous that the international community should pay millions of euros in humanitarian measures for those suffering in Darfur while the Sudanese state coffers are being further filled” criticised the GfbV Africa expert, Ulrich Delius. The World Food Programme of the United Nations warned last week that it needed more than 740 million dollars for famine relief in Darfur. Khartoum must at last be made to play a proper part in financing the international efforts at helping the civilian population in Darfur, said Delius. It is in fact the very first duty of a government to ensure the survival of its people. „With its constant obstruction of the humanitarian assistance for Darfur the Sudanese government carries a major part of the blame for the fact that the international community is becoming tired of providing more aid for the starving.” Official sources show that the amount of oil produced rose from 300,000 barrels per day in January to 500,000 barrels in April. By the end of the year this figure will rise to 650,000 barrels per day. „In the light of the rising oil prices and an increased production capacity of several hundred thousand barrels in the past four months the income of the Sudan is experiencing an explosion”, says the GfbV. The result has been an income of at least 210 million dollars in the first quarter of this year, which Khartoum has evidently invested in massive investment in its army. Since the beginning of the genocide ion Darfur in 2003 the Sudan has purchased arms from Russia and Belorussia for at least 372 million US dollars.
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