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- Wednesday 6 March 2013
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
March 5, 2013 (ADDIS ABAB) - The Ethiopian government and Tullow Oil Plc, has dismissed media reports that the UK company has discovered oil along Ethiopia’s western South Omo block. Tullow Oil Plc.
The (...)
- Tuesday 19 February 2013
February 18, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) - An Ethiopian rebel group on Monday issued fresh warnings against a Canadian oil firm, urging the company to refrain from oil exploration activities in the country’s eastern region. ONLF fighters (...)
- Thursday 9 February 2012
February 8, 2012 (DALLAS) – The government of South Sudan is in talks with a Texas-based company to explore options for building an oil pipeline which would serve as an alternative to the one passing through the territories of Sudan. (...)
- Sunday 26 February 2012
February 25, 2012 (BOR) - South Sudan’s president, Salva Kiir Mayardit accused north Sudan - from which the new country seceded last year - of attempting to turn the world’s youngest country into a failed state. Salva Kiir (Reuters) (...)
- Wednesday 1 February 2012
By Ngor Arol Garang
January 31, 2012 (JUBA) - South Sudan on Tuesday denied scrutinising rumours regarding the close links between two international oil companies, who work in the new nation, and the Sudanese government. South (...)
- Sunday 29 January 2012
By Ngor Arol Garang
January 28, 2012 (JUBA) - South Sudan on Saturday said it had shut down 90% of its oil production, a day after the latest talks to resolve a fee dispute with north Sudan failed in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. (...)
- Thursday 23 February 2012
February 22, 2012 (JUBA) - South Sudan on Wednesday said it has given the president of Petrodar - a Chino-Malaysian oil company - 72 hours to leave the country, accusing him of not cooperating with the government and continuing to (...)
- Saturday 18 February 2012
By Julius N. Uma
February 17, 2012 (JUBA) - South Sudan’s Justice Ministry has issued an international legal notice threatening consequences against potential buyers of oil it says was “stolen” by neighbouring Sudan, a government (...)
- Saturday 25 February 2012
February 24, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The next round of talks with South Sudan on oil will be “decisive” said a member of Khartoum’s negotiating team today.
The two neighboring nations will meet next month in Addis Ababa in a new bid to resolve (...)
- Monday 27 February 2012
February 26, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese economy could shrink by as much as 4.5% this year given the deteriorating situation after the secession of the oil rich south, an international economist told Agence France Presse (AFP). (...)
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