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South Sudan cuts oil output citing problem with exports to Sudan

21 May 2013

JUBA/KHARTOUM (Reuters) - South Sudan has almost halved its oil production due to a problem with oil exports to Sudan, it said on Tuesday, adding it suspected its rival had closed the cross-border pipeline in a possible sign of new friction between the neighbors. The neighbors agreed in March to resume oil exports from the landlocked South Sudan through the north and defuse tensions but mutual ...

Lebanese farmland firm to invest up to $800 million in Sudan

21 May 2013

By Ulf Laessing KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Lebanese farmland investor GLB Invest plans to invest up to $800 million in Sudan to produce animal feed to be sold to Saudi Arabia, its president said on Tuesday. Arab investors have launched farmland and livestock projects in the vast African country, prized for its fertile soil and easy access to irrigation water from the Nile, to help arid Gulf oil ...

51 die in 2 South Sudan clashes; army retakes town

20 May 2013

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Twenty-four people died in a battle between South Sudan's military and rebel fighters the government believes to be supported by neighboring Sudan, while a tribe-on-tribe cattle-raiding attack elsewhere in the country killed 27 people, officials said Monday.