Courtesy of Eurasia Review, a look at Sudan’s energy industry: South Sudan may have taken most of Sudan’s known energy reserves with it when it voted for independence in 2011, but that doesn’t mean Khartoum has given up on keeping Sudan in the mix of Africa’s key energy players. Eyeing a bounce back, Sudan has [...]
Read more »Via STATFOR (subscription required), a report on the recent Sudan – South Sudan oil deal: Sudanese President Omar al Bashir and South Sudanese President Salva Kiir signed a deal late last week allowing South Sudan to resume oil exports, which had been cut off since January due to a dispute over transit and production fees. [...]
Read more »Via Foreign Policy, an interesting look at China’s role in brokering a tentative oil agreement between the Sudans: China — a growing diplomatic powerhouse in Africa — played a vital role in securing a preliminary agreement on transit fees for hundred of thousands of barrels of oil being piped from South Sudan’s oil fields through [...]
Read more »Courtesy of The Council On Foreign Relations, a report on US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s efforts to help arrange a Sudan-South Sudan oil agreement: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (R) meets with South Sudanese President Salva Kiir at the Presidential Office Building in Juba August 3, 2012. (POOL New/Courtesy Reuters) The agreement [...]
Read more »Courtesy of Foreign Policy, an article on the petroleum politics between Sudan and South Sudan. As the report notes: Although today’s African Union (AU)-U.N. deadline for reconciliation between Sudan and South Sudan has come and gone without a resolution, the Security Council is unlikely to follow through on its threatened targeted sanctions for now (China [...]
Read more »Courtesy of The Washington Post, a report on how China’s growing appetite for energy has led it into the messy politics and tensions of Sudan. As the article notes: At a restaurant along the River Nile offering crocodile and ostrich meat, officials of the world’s newest — and desperately destitute — nation hosted a lunch [...]
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