South Sudan Studies Routes Other Than North for Oil Exports

Southern Sudan President Salva Kiir is studying other ways of exporting oil pumped in Sudan’s south after July, accusing the north Sudanese government of arming rebel militias in the south to overthrow his government, a Southern Sudan minister said.

Kiir “has directed me to the possibility of stopping the export of oil from the south through the north after July,” when Southern Sudan would be declared independent from the rest of Sudan, Pagan Amum told reporters today in Khartoum, the Sudanese capital.