Archive for November 21, 2012

South Sudan says new demands from Sudan delay oil restart

Posted: November 21, 2012 by PaanLuel Wël Media Ltd. in Junub Sudan

Artisanal gold mining in South Sudan – in pictures
The Guardian
American photographer Adriane Ohanesian has been based in South Sudan since 2010, working for Reuters. Here she documents the unregulated gold-mining industry prior to changes that may see the government selling licences to large-scale investors 
South Sudan says new demands from Sudan delay oil restart
Reuters
MELUT, South Sudan Nov 20 (Reuters) – South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir said on Tuesday resumption of the country’s oil output had been delayed after Sudan made new demands related to rebel fighting in Sudanese territory. “We were supposed to 
After Being Offline Since 2011, South Sudan Oil to Flow Again
OilPrice.com
On 14 November, South Sudan President Salva Kiir declared during a meeting he held in Juba with visiting Kenyan deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta that his country’s oil production will be restarted next week after being suspended for nearly a year 
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Special Report: In South Sudan, plunder preserves a fragile peace
CNBC.com
A few weeks later, on the evening of July 4, Mawiir was leaving a hotel in Juba, South Sudan’ssmall and sluggish capital, when a dark green SUV pulled up. An unknown man offered him a lift and when Mawiir stepped into the vehicle, someone pulled a bag 
Humanitarian agency suspends flights in South Sudan
Daily Monitor
Miraculously, none of the 49 South Sudanese aboard was hurt when the aircraft crashed late last week on landing at the airstrip in Aweil, in South Sudan’s Northern Bahr El Ghazal state, said Jill Helke, chief of IOM’s Sudan mission. “The plane is 

Reuters
MELUT, South Sudan (Reuters) – South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir said resumption of the country’s oil output had been delayed after Sudan made new demands related to rebel fighting in Sudanese territory, in new signs of tension between the African 

Indian businessmen investing in South Sudan: Envoy
Indian Express
Daniel Peter Othol, Ambassador of South Sudan to India, on Tuesday visited Punjab College of Technical Education Group of Institutes, where 11 South Sudan students are studying. Calling for better relations between the two nations, Othol said 
Bank of Khartoum’s Gulf owners bet on Sudan growth
Reuters
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Bank of Khartoum, Sudan’s oldest bank, plans to more than triple its capital as its Gulf investors fund an expansion in the resource-rich country, betting that peace with South Sudan will hold, its general manager said on Tuesday.

Chinese peacekeeping forces to South Sudan hold rotation-and-handover 
People’s Daily Online
The rotation-and-handover ceremony for the 1st Chinese peacekeeping force to South Sudan and the 1st echelon of the 2nd Chinese peacekeeping force to South Sudan was held at the Wau barracks of the Chinese engineer detachment at 17:00 of 
Dr. Lam Akol – No Sugarcoating!!
AllAfrica.com
More to the point, as a South Sudanese citizen, have you ever wonder as to why talented, gifted scholars, intellectuals such as Lam Akol, Riek Gai Kok and others act the way they act? Or, what drives them to be madly in love with materials over people, 
Over 2000 Sudanese refugees flee to South Sudan
The Africa Report
More than 2 000 Sudanese last week arrived in South Sudan’s largest refugee settlement in Yida, as they flee escalating fighting in their country, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) said. The agency says the arrival of 2 100