Sudan, South Sudan Plan to Open Border in Bid to Boost Trade
- Move allows transport of cheaper goods to south, minister says
- Sudan has agreed to renegotiate oil transfer fees with south
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Sudan and South Sudan’s border will open for the first time since southern secession in 2011, allowing a flow of cheaper goods amid an economic crisis caused by civil war in the world’s newest nation, government officials said.
The move would allow for “better and cheaper provisions of goods and services” and “promote the relationship between us and Sudan,” South Sudanese presidential spokesman Ateny Wek Ateny said Thursday by phone from Juba, the capital.