South Sudan accuses Sudan of confiscating its oil entitlements worth about US$815m and stops oil production.
August 2012
The two countries, under the facilitation of the African Union High Level Implementation Panel reached a deal, which could see the young nation pay US$9.10 for every barrel of oil produced in Upper Nile and $11.00 for every barrel produced in Unity State. In addition Juba also offered $3 billion as a transitional financial assistance to Sudan.
September 2012
Under the final deal signed on September 27, South Sudan will pay between $9.10 and $11 a barrel to export its crude through the north. Juba will also pay $3.08 billion to help Sudan overcome the loss of three quarters of oil production due to southern secession.
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 (JUBA) - South Sudan’s main opposition party has distanced itself from a critical comment one of its top official made against the Sudanese president Omer Al-Bashir Onyoti Adigo Nyikec (mcclatchy)
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Saturday 15 June 2013 June 14, 2013 (JUBA) – South Sudan has formed a high level political committee to dialogue with the neighbouring Sudan to defuse the current oil row which has threatened to invalidate the cooperation agreements signed by the two nations (...)
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Monday 10 June 2013 June 9, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese government today qualified president Omer Hassan al-Bashir decision to halt oil flow from South Sudan by saying that the latter can rectify the situation and avert the shutdown by suspending (...)
Sunday 9 June 2013 June 8, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir on Saturday has ordered oil minister Awad al-Jaz to block the pipeline carrying South Sudan’s crude all the way to Red Sea coastal city of Port Sudan. President Omer (...)
Thursday 13 June 2013 June 12, 2013 (JUBA) - South Sudanese president Salva Kiir Mayardit said on Wednesday that he acknowledges the decision taken by Khartoum to block transportation of oil produced by his country, adding he was willing to engage in (...)
Tuesday 11 June 2013 June 10, 2013 (JUBA) - Several world leaders on Monday reacted to a decision by the Sudanese president, Omar al Bashir to block the pipelines that transport oil from landlocked South Sudan’s oil for exports through its territory.
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Tuesday 11 June 2013 June 10, 2013(JUBA) - South Sudan parliament on Monday summoned three cabinet ministers over the oil dispute with the government of neighbouring Sudan, following an order issued by its president Omer al-Bashir to halt the flow of crude (...)
Thursday 13 June 2013 June 12, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The head of the African Union (AU) mediation handed has over “urgent proposals” to Khartoum and Juba in a bid to overcome the recent tensions between the two capitals that led Sudan to freeze the implementation (...)
Sunday 9 June 2013 June 9, 2013 (JUBA) – South Sudan’s cabinet is in an emergency meeting today in response to the recent development on announcement by the Sudan’s president Omer Hassan Al Bashir to close the oil pipeline and shut down the South’s oil (...)
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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
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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 (...)
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