Golden Links: Tourism and Marketing Fair in Khartoum (2) Trying to reactivate internal tourism and attract foreign tourists The Sudanese and its States governments launched a number of Touristic fairs and activities, the last of which was the International Tourism and Marketing Fair in Khartoum on April 8 to 12.The Fair in Khartoum was launched [...]
KHARTOUM: Sudan’s oil ministry said yesterday that the first crude from South Sudan reached its territory, bringing both impoverished nations closer to billions of dollars in revenue after a dispute over fees. “The first batch of oil already arrived on Sudanese land yesterday,” Sudan’s undersecretary at the petroleum ministry, Awad Abdul Fatah, said. “It’s a [...]
Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir arrived in South Sudan Friday for the first time since his 2011 visit for the country’s independence celebrations, an AFP reporter said. South Sudanese President Salva Kiir, Bashir‘s former civil war foe and an ex-rebel commander, welcomed his counterpart at Juba airport. They agreed in March to resume cross-border oil flows [...]
Khartoum — The governments of Sudan and South Sudan have agreed on appointing observers from both sides to monitor oil meters at production areas as well as major stations on the pipeline. The Sudanese Secretary General at the Ministry of Oil Awad Abdul-Fattah at a joint press conference on Thursday with South Sudan‘s Undersecretary at [...]
(eTN) – Royal Dutch Airline KLM has announced that effective March 31 of this year they will halt flights between Amsterdam and Khartoum, citing unsatisfactory performance of the route. There has been speculation if Khartoum’s harsh economic environment, which saw allocation of foreign exchange to repatriate ticket sales suspended – in spite of existing international [...]
Sudan’s government says it believes Israel has conducted an air strike on an arms factory in Khartoum. Culture and Information Minister Ahmed Belal Osman told reporters in Khartoum that “four military planes attacked the Yarmouk plant,” where there were blasts and a huge fire late on October 23. “The attack destroyed part of the compound [...]
Business Written by Moses Talemwa The presidents of Sudan and South Sudan have resolved to end their differences over oil production, a move that could rule out Kenya’s plans to erect a new refinery in Lamu to refine South Sudan oil. The two presidents, Omar al-Bashir and his South Sudan counterpart Salva Kiir, who met [...]
A Sudanese helicopter carrying a government delegation crashed in a mountainous southern region on Sunday, killing all 32 people on board including a Cabinet minister, a former presidential adviser, two generals and a TV crew. The delegation was travelling aboard a chartered helicopter to the volatile South Kordofan state to attend prayers on the first [...]
Major deal By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda | Aug 11, 2012 (eTN) – Within days of reaching an agreement with hostile neighbor Khartoum, Sudan, over the fees on transporting South Sudan?s oil to Port Sudan for export – said to have been literally forced down South Sudan?s throat by western governments and subsequently [...]
(AFP) – 19 hours ago KHARTOUM — Sudan‘s beleaguered currency has gained eight percent on the black market since the weekend announcement of a long-sought oil deal with South Sudan, dealers said on Monday. The pound traded at 5.7 for one US dollar, against 6.2 before Saturday’s announcement of the agreement. Sudan and South Sudan [...]
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