Revealed: More Slick Moves by Jarch Capital in Oil-rich Southern Sudan - Is It About Freedom from Genocide or Oil (and profits) for the West? - Roger Pociask - Managing Director - African Affairs Advisory Group - Focus on Africa - 0 views
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Jarch is chaired by Philippe Heilberg, who during the 1990s worked as a Wall Street banker in the commodities division of American International Group, a giant American financial company that nearly collapsed in 2008.
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On the same BBC program, Steve Wiggins, a Research Fellow at the think-tank the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) said the deal raised concerns over land rights. “The concerns are very clearly first and foremost alienation of the land rights of people who are already there. And particularly some of the marginal and poor people who may not have legal title to their land and these people are obviously vulnerable to losing the means of their livelihoods.”
