South Sudan restarted oil production Saturday, ending a 15-month bitter row with former civil war foe Sudan marking a major breakthrough in relations after bloody border clashes last year. “The oil is now flowing,” South Sudan oil minister Stephen Dhieu Dau shouted as he flicked a switch to restart production at a ceremony in the [...]
THAR JATH, South Sudan — South Sudan restarted oil production Saturday, ending a 15-month bitter row with former civil war foe Sudan and marking a major breakthrough in relations after bloody border clashes last year. “The oil is now flowing,” South Sudan oil minister Stephen Dhieu Dau shouted as he flicked a switch [...]
March 21, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan has officially directed oil companies to take the necessary measures allowing the exportation of the South Sudanese oil. A South Sudanese soldier walks past a crude oil reservoir tank at a field processing facility in Unity State on November 10, 2010. (Getty) The decision, which is signed by Sudanese [...]
(AFP) – Il y a 4 heures JUBA — Le gouvernement sud-soudanais a ordonné jeudi aux compagnies pétrolières opérant sur son territoire de reprendre leur production, qu’il avait fait arrêter en janvier en raison d’un conflit avec le Soudan voisin sur les redevances de passage du brut dans ses oléoducs. Les Parlements sud-soudanais et soudanais [...]
JUBA/KHARTOUM — Sudan and South Sudan accused each other of launching fresh attacks on oil-producing areas either side of their contested border on Tuesday but Sudan said it hoped the conflict would not escalate into war. Reuters NBC’s Mark Potter on the pope’s trip to Cuba Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46871496
A senior Sudanese negotiator said he sees little hope for progress in talks with South Sudan on contentious issues left over from the two countries’ separation last July. Mediators in Addis Ababa are measuring progress in millimeters. Former Sudanese Central Bank governor Sabir Mohamed al Hassan was blunt Friday when asked whether he thinks the [...]
A senior Sudanese negotiator said he sees little hope for progress in talks with South Sudan on contentious issues left over from the two countries’ separation last July. Mediators in Addis Ababa are measuring progress in millimeters. Former Sudanese Central Bank governor Sabir Mohamed al Hassan was blunt Friday when asked whether he thinks the [...]
BY JENNY GROSS LONDON—South Sudan is planning to export by road at least 10% of its 350,000 barrels-a-day crude oil production while alternative infrastructure is put in place, said Stephen Dhieu Dau, minister for petroleum and mining, without giving a time frame for when this would start. The landlocked country, which sells its crude to [...]
Talks to resolve tension between Sudan and South Sudan have entered a second day, after negotiations Tuesday ended in shouting. A VOA correspondent at the scene, in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, reports the talks are in a delicate stage as the sides try to resolve simmering disputes over oil, borders, and citizenship issues. Talks on [...]
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