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South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir reviews an honor guard with Chinese President Hu Jintao, unseen, during a welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Tuesday, April 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)
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Al Jazeera English | Sudanese oil interest bow to China | 4 May 2012
Al Jazeera English | UN threatens sanctions over Sudan dispute | 2 May 2012
Al Jazeera English | Professor Paul Moorcraft talks to Al Jazeera about Sudan | 24 April 2012
Al Jazeera | Sudan tensions imperil China’s investments | 6 April 2012
Rising tensions between Sudan and South Sudan are threatening China’s investments in the region. China is the biggest player in the oil industry on both sides of the border. Traditionally a key ally of the Khartoum government, China is now trying to strengthen relations with the South as well. Al Jazeera’s Nazanine Moshiri reports from Juba, capital of South Sudan.
Monday 17 June 2013 June 16, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The Chinese special envoy to Africa Zhong Jianhua held talks in Khartoum today with the oil minister Awad al-Jaz in the wake of Sudan’s decision last week to block flow of oil from landlocked South Sudan. FILE (...)
Friday 3 May 2013 US Security Strategy in South Sudan
An anti-China Strategy?
Towards a peaceful or conflictual world? A Marxist debate over nature and evolution of the current international order
By Zeno Leoni
The cornerstone of an academic debate (...)
Tuesday 21 May 2013 May 20, 2013 (JUBA) - South Sudan on Monday summoned the Chinese ambassador to Juba to complain over an alleged blockage of the flow of its oil to international markets through Sudanese territory, government sources have said. Sudanese (...)
Monday 14 January 2013 January 13, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Four Chinese nationals were among fifteen workers at a road company taken hostage at gunpoint in Sudan’s volatile Darfur region, an official said on Sunday. FILE - Chinese workers who escaped after being (...)
Friday 28 September 2012 September 27, 2012 (WASHINGTON) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) released figures on Thursday projecting that Sudan’s external debts will hit an all-time high next year, the latest evidence of a growing economic crisis engulfing (...)
Wednesday 22 February 2012 February 21, 2012 (JUBA) – The government of South Sudan on Tuesday ordered Liu Yingcai, the head of the Chinese-Malaysian oil consortium Petrodar, to leave the country on the grounds of “non-cooperation”, a Southern official said. (...)
Tuesday 4 October 2011 October 3, 2011 (KHARTOUM) — Unknown gunmen killed a Chinese oil worker in the troubled South Kordofan province where the Sudanese army is fighting the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement –North (SPLM-N) since last June. Chinese and (...)
Thursday 24 January 2013 January 23, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese minister of transportation and roads has tackled the issue of security with Chinese companies and measures needed to protect their workers in the troubled region of Darfur.
Four Chinese (...)
Saturday 22 April 2006 By Mahgoub El-Tigani
April 21, 2006 — The Americans and other western administrations have been asking the Chinese leadership to revise policies on Sudan and Iran. But the Sudanese, more than all world powers and economic entities, are (...)
Tuesday 31 January 2012 January 30, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Chinese ambassador to Addis Ababa Xie Xiaoyan met on Monday with the chairman of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement North (SPLM-N) Malik Agar and the secretary general Yasir Arman to discuss the (...)
On Abyei enough is enough2013-06-18 05:01:47 By Deng Vanang
June 17, 2013 - No one whether locally or internationally can still argue there is more hope to resolve Abyei stalemate peacefully. It has been everybody’s wish that dialogue could (...)
The arming of rebels in Sudan and South Sudan: what is the evidence?2013-06-18 04:57:44 By Eric Reeves
17 June 2013 - News reporting in general, a great deal of analytic writing, and virtually all diplomatic pronouncements about military support for rebel groups—in South Sudan and (...)
Bashir’s decision, a material breach of the oil agreement2013-06-16 06:21:14 By Justice Deng Biong
June 15, 2013 - After its ratification by the National legislatures in both South Sudan and Sudan States, the Cooperation Agreement [CA] (Oil Agreement included) signed on (...)
South Sudan civil society alliance ask to meet the president2013-06-12 05:23:59 South Sudan Civil Society Alliance
National Issues Discussed with the Presidential Legal Advisor and Appeal to meet the President
June 7, 2013
Ladies and gentlemen of the press, today the (...)
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On Abyei enough is enough 2013-06-18 05:01:47 By Deng Vanang June 17, 2013 - No one whether locally or internationally can still argue there is more hope to resolve Abyei stalemate peacefully. It has been everybody’s wish that dialogue could (...)
The arming of rebels in Sudan and South Sudan: what is the evidence? 2013-06-18 04:57:44 By Eric Reeves 17 June 2013 - News reporting in general, a great deal of analytic writing, and virtually all diplomatic pronouncements about military support for rebel groups—in South Sudan and (...)
Bashir’s decision, a material breach of the oil agreement 2013-06-16 06:21:14 By Justice Deng Biong June 15, 2013 - After its ratification by the National legislatures in both South Sudan and Sudan States, the Cooperation Agreement [CA] (Oil Agreement included) signed on (...)
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