Nothing of relevance to add to the discussion other than saying it hits home more than ever for me, I am sitting in Sudan right now. I am currently at the marine terminal, the end of its major pipeline. I just finished observing the filling of a 1.7 million barrel Greek tanker that will take its load to China.
There is Chinese laborers all over the place performing upgrades to the facility, and quite the assortment of nationalities assisting: Canadians, UK, South Africa, etc. I have been pretty far into the South, and it seems fairly stable there. I have never been remotely close to the Darfur region. This trip, I have seen increased security measures as the UN has set of shop in the Khartoum Hotel I stayed at when I arrived.
I get the impression that most of the locals here want the African Union to deal with the Darfur issues.
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"Cammy just threw them in my locker & told me to hold on to them." - Giordano on the pencils from Iggy's stall. 
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