10/10/2012 - Insurgents said they had shelled the main city in Sudan's oil-producing South Kordofan state, the second attack on the city this week. Sudan's army has been battling SPLM-North insurgents in South Kor... |
3/27/2012 - South Sudan said the Sudanese air force had bombed the main oil fields in Unity state near the border with Sudan, as violence between the two escalated. "This morning as you called I heard the Antonov... |
2/28/2012 - Sudan denounced suggestions that it was confiscating oil from South Sudan and indicated that the newly independent South was responsible for stonewalling an oil deal between the two nations. South Sud... |
2/19/2012 - Chinese-Malaysian oil firm Petrodar, the main oil operator in South Sudan, denied it had helped Sudan seize any southern oil, after Juba accused Chinese firms of cooperating with Khartoum in a row bet... |
2/19/2012 - South Sudan said it would cut non-salary spending by around 50 percent as part of austerity measures to compensate for the loss of oil revenues due to a row with Khartoum. In January, South Sudan shut... |
2/14/2012 - South Sudan accused its northern neighbour Sudan of bombing the disputed border town of Jau, killing four soldiers and breaking a non-aggression pact the two former civil war foes signed last week. Su... |
12/15/2011 - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged newly independent South Sudan to be prudent with its oil wealth, warning mismanagement and the "resource curse" could see money siphoned off by unscrupulo... |
7/12/2011 - Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has announced that he will introduce economic austerity measures following South Sudan's secession. Most of Sudan's oil lay in the south and the two countries have not... |
7/10/2011 - Tens of thousands of South Sudanese danced and cheered as their new nation declared independence, a hard-won separation from the north that still leaves simmering issues of disputed borders and oil pa... |
7/10/2011 - Chinese President Hu Jintao congratulated South Sudan on its independence, promising strong ties between the two countries as China seeks to retain its access to Sudanese oil supplies. China is a majo... |
6/29/2011 - Sudan agreed to bring some former rebels into the its army and the south played down a northern threat to shut oil pipelines, as the country's halves scramble to prepare for the south's looming secess... |
6/29/2011 - South Sudan urged the United States to lift sanctions on Sudan ahead of the southern region's independence on July 9 to avoid hitting the new nation's oil-based economy. The south voted to separate fr... |
5/23/2011 - Sudan's northern army vowed to hold territory it seized in the disputed oil-producing region of Abyei, defying a U.N. demand it withdraw and pushing the north and south closer to conflict as the south... |
4/21/2011 - South Sudan's government has decided to re-admit northern oil workers expelled from the oil-producing Unity state after deadly clashes in the region, the nascent country's petroleum minister said. ... |
3/4/2011 - Tens of thousands of people have fled Sudan's contested Abyei border town, leaving large parts of it empty, aid workers said, after a surge in fighting left dozens dead. ... |
2/21/2011 - Sudan has appointed private sector businessmen to help manage its state oil firm Sudapet, which owns stakes in all of Sudan's oil blocks, to improve the company's efficiency and widen its scope, the o... |
8/19/2010 - Sudan signed a $30 million deal with small Finnish company Fenno Caledonian on Thursday to explore Block 10 in the north east of the country, a rocky area that might hold gas or crude oil, officials s... |
2/6/2010 - Indonesian state-owned oil company PT Pertamina said it had obtained a permit from the trade minister to import 600,000 barrels of "Nile Blend" crude from Sudan. ... |
11/1/2004 - KHARTOUM, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Sudan will implement a protocol dividing its oil riches between the north and south next year, whether or not there is a peace deal to end more than two decades of civil wa... |