South Sudan: Kiir Explains Refusal to Sign Oil Deal With Khartoum

1 February 2012

Juba — South Sudan president, Salva Kiir Mayradit, on Tuesday told fellow heads of state at the (AU) summit that his country refused to sign a proposed deal on oil with neighboring Sudan because the deal failed to comprehensively address the fundamental causes of the crisis.

Head-to-head talks held earlier this week between Kiir and his Sudanese counterpart Omer Al-Bashir on the margins of the AU summit in Addis Ababa failed to resolve the bitter row that erupted between the two countries over oil revenues.

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