VZCZCXRO5487
OO RUEHROV
DE RUEHKH #0926/02 1750744
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
O 230744Z JUN 08 ZDK CTG RUEHZC 2919 2200727
FM AMEMBASSY KHARTOUM
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 1121
INFO RUCNIAD/IGAD COLLECTIVE
RHMFISS/CJTF HOA

UNCLAS SECTION 02 OF 02 KHARTOUM 000926 
 
DEPT FOR AF/SPG, A/S FRAZER, SE WILLIAMSON, NSC FOR BPITTMAN AND 
CHUDSON 
ADDIS ABABA FOR USAU 
DEPT PLS PASS USAID FOR AFR/SUDAN 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
SUBJECT: SPLA CASH-STRAPPED, POUND FOOLISH 
 
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KHARTOUM 00000926  002 OF 002 
 
 
exposed following his death.  While recent events in Abyei have 
served to solidify unity within the ranks of the SPLA and may make 
soldiers more tolerant of late pay, the SPLA has burned through 
nearly $400 million in just six months, an alarming rate by any 
measure.  Much of this is for pay, but it is also possible that the 
SPLA is arming itself as much as possible while oil revenues 
continue to flow from the North, in preparation for the day when 
conflict may resume and oil transfers may stop. That may not be a 
bad idea at all on the face of it, but there is an efficient way to 
do this and an ill-disciplined, sloppy way and the SPLA seems to 
have followed the latter. 
 
FERNANDEZ