Stanford University to Divest From Sudan
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To protest the ongoing genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan, Stanford University will divest any direct stock investments it holds in four international energy companies with business ties to the government of the African nation, officials announced Thursday.
The businesses are the Chinese companies PetroChina and Sinopec, the Russian company Tatneft, and Swiss-based ABB.
The university did not disclose how much it had invested in the companies.
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