90% of Oil Wells in Sudan’s East Darfur Destroyed

About 90 percent of the oil wells in Sudan’s East Darfur State have been completely sabotaged and vandalized as copper and electrical wires were stolen by unknown persons before some of the wells were set ablaze. 23 out of 36 wells were operating in the state’s oil fields since 2016 run by the Chinese Petro-Engine and Sharf companies. The director of the Jad Al-Sayed Administrative Unit in Abu Karinka Locality, Hussein Ahmed Hussein, told Radio Tamazuj that the damage to the oil wells in the Shaq Omar area was a great blow…Ahmed called for efforts to stop the deliberate destruction of a public resource to preserve what remains of the wells and to ward off environmental hazards such as oil leakage from pipelines. (Radio Tamazuj)