South Sudan resumes oil exports


Issue 252 - 19 Apr 2013 | 3 minute read

After 15 months of impasse, Sudan’s Ministry of Oil has announced that initial quantities of crude from South Sudan have reached its territory in line with a co-operation agreement signed on 12 March. Under-secretary at the Ministry of Oil Awad Abdul Fatah told AFP that “we’re really in a hurry to do things quickly” and “we’d like for the money to start flowing as soon as possible”. South Sudan suspended oil production in January 2012 in protest at unreasonable transit fees charged on its exports on the way to Port Sudan by the government in Khartoum. The blockage has cost both countries heavily.

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