This is how you can tell that there are hidden agendas at work in this conflict...

Did anyone notice in beardedbruce's CNN link, that the "Justice and Equality Movement" has been described as being "closely linked to Islamic fundamentalists"?

In any other context, the very same people who are supporting these "ethnically Black" rebels would be calling them "Islamo-fascist terrorists". Why not now? What is different in this context?

The difference is that in this case, the "ethnically Black Islamo-fascist terrorists" are being used as proxy fighters for Western oil interests.

And by the way, my sympathies in this particular conflict are mostly on the side of the farmers.