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- Wednesday 24 April 2013
April 23, 2013 (JUBA) - South Sudanese president Salva Kiir Mayardit said on Tuesday that the Chinese government has approved a major loan scheme to help his country improve infrastructure, adding that the agreement shows the level of (...)
- Sunday 31 March 2013
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
March 30, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) - The Ethiopian Petroleum Supplier Enterprise (EPSE) said on Saturday that the nation has imported over 1 million metric tonnes of petroleum from neighbouring Sudan via the port of (...)
- Monday 16 April 2012
April 11, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA/JUBA) - South Sudan has tightened visa regulations for the many foreign nationals working in the nine-month-old country, as the oil dispute with north Sudan continues to have a negative affect on both (...)
- Saturday 28 July 2012
July 27, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The ruling National Congress Party (NCP) in Sudan has expressed dissatisfaction with the timing and target of the decision to increase electricity charges, asking President Omer Al-Bashir to reconsider it. A (...)
- Wednesday 16 February 2011
February 15, 2011 (ADDIS ABABA) - The Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo) has launched the construction of a massive hydroelectric generation plant in Benishangul state, very close to the Sudanese border, according to an (...)
- Monday 20 February 2012
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
February 19, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) – Ethiopia has completed a power transmission line that links its power grid with neighbouring Sudan, state Electric and Power Corporation (EEPCO) announced.
Funded by the World (...)
- Monday 31 December 2012
December 31, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) – Ethiopia and Sudan are in negotiations to balance the revenues earned from Ethiopia’s sale of electric power to Sudan with the equivalent expenditure of oil imported from Sudan to Ethiopia, according to (...)
- Friday 10 August 2012
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
August 9, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) - Ethiopia is making final preparations to begin permanently exporting power to neighbouring Sudan which would enable Khartoum to replace its thermal power generating units with (...)
- Sunday 30 January 2011
By Julius N. Uma
January 28, 2011 (JUBA) — Widespread fuel crisis coupled with abnormally high prices have hit South Sudan, less than two weeks after the semi-autonomous region successfully concluded its self-determination referendum. (...)
- Saturday 25 February 2012
February 24, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) signed yesterday a loan agreement with Sudan in the amount of $30 million that will be used to build a dam on Atabarah river.
OFID Director-General (...)
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