2012

Lundin Petroleum has been strongly criticised for its activities in Africa. Now two major shareholders are selling shares in the company. AMF Pension has disposed of almost half of its holdings, writes Dagens industri.

The South Sudanese president Salva Kiir unexpectedly cut short his five-day visit to China as the latter showed reluctance to give green light for Juba’s request that Beijing finance an alternative oil pipeline.

South Sudan’s government will no longer export crude via neighboring Sudan and all future negotiations between the two countries will exclude oil, said Pagan Amum, South Sudan’s chief negotiator.

South Sudan said Sudan's military carried out aerial bombardments of four South Sudanese towns, a day after beginning ground attacks inside its territory.

South Sudan intends to ask China to finance an alternative pipeline to export its oil, an official said on Sunday as prospects of resuming use of former transit route via neighbouring Sudan have been terminated by renewed conflicts.

South Sudan accused Sudan of launching ground and aerial attacks inside South Sudan's territory Sunday.

South Sudan announced Friday it was withdrawing its troops from a contested oil-rich area it seized last week in a move that escalated tensions and fears of a return to war with Sudan.

In what could be a step closer to a re-launch of the war between the former united Sudan’s north and south, Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said his "main goal" was to free South Sudan's citizens from the ruling SPLM party. The declaration by Bashir follows a series of clashes along the border between the two countries.

Russian-built Hind Mi-24V attack helicopters were used to clear tens of thousands of Sudanese away from the oil fields of South Sudan and the villages of Darfur. Defenseless civilians were strafed from the air as they fled their burning houses, and from 1999 to 2006 over 2 million people were forced out of their homes and pushed off their land.

South Sudan’s government on Wednesday suspended oil production in the disputed oil-rich area of Heglig following the capture of the area on Tuesday by the South Sudan’s forces known as the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA).