(Getty Images) News broke in late March that South Sudan ordered its oil companies to start production again. The fledgling Sub-Saharan nation stopped oil exports in January 2012 amid failed negotiations with Sudan over oil transmission prices. Not that this is anything new. The two Sudans reached an agreement last September but it was never [...]
Photo: Tim McKulka/UN Photo Juba — South Africa on Sunday pledged its resolve to support a peace proposal by the African Union High Level Implementation (AUHIP) which aims to end the long-running dispute between Sudan and South Sudan over the region of Abyei, a leading member of South Sudan‘s governing Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) [...]
Washington — Saudi Arabia‘s financial aid to Sudan accounted for only 1.34% of the total amount of money allocated by the oil-producing nation to other Arab countries over the last eighteen months, according to a report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The report released last Tuesday reveals that Riyadh pledged $240 million to Khartoum [...]
By ROD McGUIRKAssociated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) – An official of Chinese telecoms equipment giant Huawei Technologies said Friday he is concerned that new Australian laws to protect communication networks from cyber-attacks could exclude companies from tendering for work simply because they’re Chinese. Huawei’s Australian subsidiary was last year barred on security grounds from working [...]
BEIJING: South Sudan may resume pumping oil as soon as November, China’s ambassador to Africa said, adding Beijing was optimistic leaders in Juba will soon reach pricing terms with Sudan on piping crude through the country from which it recently split. China’s special envoy to Africa Zhong Jianhua has made several trips to the [...]
First published by the New Nation Newspaper By Luka Biong Deng The US is the biggest economy and the most powerful democratic country in the world. However, despite the huge size of its economy, economic growth has slowed down, particularly compared to China, the world’s second biggest economy. While gross domestic product and industrial production [...]
The US wants China and Arab states to help foot the $3 billion bill for a deal designed to unlock oil production and set Sudan and South Sudan back on the path to peace. The warring neighbors reached agreement on Saturday on how much South Sudan should pay to export its oil via pipelines in [...]
By Philippe de Pontet and Clare Allenson Although today’s African Union (AU)-U.N. deadline for reconciliation between Sudan and South Sudan has come and gone without a resolution, the Security Council is unlikely to follow through on its threatened targeted sanctions for now (China and Russia are unlikely to endorse them). While an oil deal in [...]
By MATTHEW LEEAssociated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) – In veiled swipes at China‘s investments in Africa, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday urged African leaders to embrace democracy and partnerships with responsible foreign powers as a means to improving their living standards and addressing the root causes of extremism on the continent. [...]
MATTHEW LEE Associated Press= DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Growing security threats from Islamist militants and China‘s increasing influence throughout Africa are topping the agenda as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton begins an 11-day swing around the continent. Clinton arrived in Senegal on Tuesday at the beginning of her latest marathon overseas journey, which will [...]
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