Articles tagged with: South Sudan
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Monday, 20 Feb, 2012
The lingering tension between Sudan, and the newest state in Africa, South Sudan has escalated in recent days. Oil-rich South Sudan has shut down its production of crude oil, and is unlikely to resume production for months, as a result of the stalemate reached by the two countries over how to share the oil proceeds.
South Sudan became independent in 2011, until which point the region was producing 260,000 barrels of oil per day. When the country achieved independence, one of the main poin...
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Thursday, 16 Feb, 2012
Sudan and South Sudan are teetering: war, famine, environmental degradation, and the involuntary movement of hundreds of thousands of people have the potential to exact a dire toll on the lives of millions people. That this unfolding cataclysm is entirely man made, and entirely avoidable, points to a profound failure of leadership at home and abroad.
The numbers are staggering: In North Sudan, the United Nations now estimates that 4.3 million citizens, or 14 percent of the country, are ...
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Thursday, 31 Mar, 2011
Since South Sudan’s referendum on secession, international media have largely forgotten the oil-rich region of Darfur, where, according to Human Rights Watch, there has been ...
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