Sudan: South Threatens to Sue the North Over Oil

26 May 2011

Khartoum — South Sudan has threatened to instigate legal proceedings against the north should the latter sell a single gallon of oil after the south declares independence on 9 July 2011.

North and South Sudan have been splitting proceeds of the country's crude oil under a 50/50 sharing formula as per the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), which in 2005 ended more than two decades of north-south civil wars and paved the way for South Sudan independence in July this year.

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