The CBC reports today that the Sudanese government has finally cleared passage for 105 Canadian “Grizzly” Armoured Vehicles to be delivered to African Union peacekeakers working in the troubled countryside. Soldiers from the African Union have been training on the vehicles in Senegal and they should be in use by the end of the year, …
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Honest Reporting from Iraq
It’s hard to know whether you’re getting the “straight” news when it comes to Iraq these days… or anywhere for that matter. But there are moments when individual reporters and journalists seem to make an effort. And today there seems to be one of those moments. Christopher Albrighton of Back to Iraq is confused by …
Kuwait reaches peak oil
It’s official. The 2nd largest oilfield in the world has, after 60 years of pumping.. reached its’ **peak production. [T]he Kuwait [national] Oil Company revealed … The peak output of the Burgan oil field will now be around 1.7 million barrels per day, and not the two million barrels per day forecast for the rest …