Sudan: Khartoum Refuses RSS Financial Assistance, Takes South Sudan Oil - Petroleum Minister

press release

Juba — The minister for Petroleum and Mining in the government of the Republic of South Sudan Hon. Stephen Dhieu Dau has accused the Khartoum government of taking the country's crude oil despite their refusal to take an assistance of about 2.6 million United States Dollars to help them recover from their economic shock that came about when the Republic of South Sudan's broke away in July last year.

The minister, while speaking to the press today at the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting headquarters in Juba, accused Khartoum of ordering all the foreign companies working on the oil to divert all South Sudan crude oil of December 2011 from Nile Blend to the Khartoum and El Obeid refineries.

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