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IEA frets over Sudanese oil dispute
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16 February 2012 PARIS, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- The International Energy Agency said revenue disputes between Sudan and South Sudan means overall production estimates are down 25 percent. South Sudan gained control of most of the oil reserves when Sudan was split into two countries last summer, though landlocked South Sudan depends on Sudan for access to export facilities. The International Energy Agency, in its monthly oil report, said the failure of both sides to find a resolution to a dispute over the sharing of oil revenue meant production could decline 25 percent. Read more...…
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Kenya Shippers Say South Sudan Trade Increases Border Congestion
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27 March 2012 Bloomberg - March 26, 2012 Kenya and Uganda’s government must upgrade infrastructure at the town Malaba on their mutual border to cater for increased traffic from South Sudan, the Kenya Shippers Council said. South Sudanese trade via Kenya’s port of Mombasa surged 87 percent last year to 417,033 metric tons, Kenya Ports Authority statistics show. South Sudan increasingly favors using Malaba to transit the goods because of insecurity and damaged roads at Lokichogio on its border with Kenya, Humphrey Kisembe, an economist at the council, said in an interview today in Mombasa. “The road…
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South Sudan to Get Aid From China; No Oil Deal
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26 April 2012 New York Times - 25 April 2012 BEIJING — China has welcomed the president of South Sudan and agreed to provide bank loans and humanitarian aid, but it has stopped short of moving forward on an oil pipeline, a sign of the delicate position Beijing finds itself in as the biggest energy investor in both the new nation of South Sudan and its bitter foe, Sudan. As the two new nations continued to edge toward outright war this week and Salva Kiir, the president of South Sudan, cut short his trip to China, the government here urged both sides to use international mediation. Before oil-rich…
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AfDB Kicks-off a Training Workshop on Energy Access Survey in Sudan
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31 January 2014 Sudan Vision Training on Energy Access Survey in Sudan financed by the African Development Bank kicked off on 26 January 2014 at the National Energy Research Centre (NERC). The workshop is part of a capacity building project that seeks to increase access to energy in Sudan, implemented by the NERC. The four-day workshop will run from 26-29 January 2014 and will train heads of statistics from all states in Sudan to conduct the energy access survey. This is an important step towards meeting Sudan's energy needs. The workshop was opened by Mr. Kenneth Onyango, the Country Program…
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Ethiopia links power grid with Sudan
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22 February 2012 The Electric and Power Corporation of Ethiopia has announced that it has finished a power transmission line that links its power grid with Sudan, the neighbouring country in east Africa. Through the $41 million power project, which has been funded by the World Bank, Ethiopia will be able to export 100 MW of electricity to Sudan in the initial phase, and even more at some point in the future. In a statement, the World Bank explained that the project will allow Sudan to replace "domestic thermal generation with surplus hydropower from Ethiopia, reducing Sudan's greenhouse gas…
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75 million USD from WB for South Sudan
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21 June 2011 The World Bank is to grant 75 million dollars to South Sudan to contribute to the financing of infrastructure, health and employment projects, reports a press release from the institution issued on June 20. This financing is destined for the South Sudan Transition Trust Fund (SSTTF). The Bank wants "to provide early assistance to South Sudan, given the urgency of the challenges faced…
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AfDB to Cooperate with South Sudan in Water Sector
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in South Sudan. The USD 5 .4 million grant, extended from the Fragile States Facility, will benefit some 170,000 people living in those 11 towns. The low levels of access to safe and potable water…
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The Nile River: Egypt and Sudan firm up water alliance
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billion ( Egypt) and 18.5 billion ( Sudan) cubic meters of water annually thanks to a series of agreements that date back to 1929 and drawn by Britain when it was the main colonising power over much…
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South Sudan: The Road to Development (video)
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13 April 2012 World Bank - 9 April 2012 Roughly the size of France, the landlocked country of South Sudan only has about 4,000 km of all weather roads which are classified as international and interstate roads. Watch this video to find out more about South Sudan's development needs, including building much needed roads and infrastructure. Watch video as part of ICA's transport infrastructure playlist . Categories: Transport…
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South Sudan 'requires new road infrastructure'
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17 August 2010 Road improvements are being made in south Sudan, although more new links are required for the development to continue. This is according to Antony Makana, minister for roads and transport, who was quoted by Reuters commenting on the region's existing infrastructure. "To connect all major towns in southern Sudan we need 13,000 km of roads ... we need five to six billion dollars…