Report from SudanTribune.com
Dated 20 April 2023 - excerpt:
Kiir urges Sudanese rivals to protect oil pipeline
President Kiir emphasized to the two [Sudan] leaders the need to protect the pipeline that exports oil from South Sudan to the international markets through Sudan.
South Sudan relies on Sudan to export its crude oil, which travels through a pipeline to the Red Sea via Khartoum where fighting erupted on Saturday.
For his part, Petroleum Minister Puot Kang Chol has urged the warring parties in Sudan to fulfil their moral responsibility and obligation of providing protection of critical infrastructure in their country under international law.
A man examines a leaking oil pipe line at a pumping station built next to his village on land that was once used for agriculture Paloch, Sudan 20 Jan 2010
Full story at Sudan Tribune here.
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