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Sudan
Population: 38.6mn.
GNI, $ : 37 bn.
Debt: 29.4bn.
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Despite the reputational risks, China, India and Vietnam’s state-owned oil companies are pushing for improved oil-fuelled ties with Khartoum, but 2010 national elections and a 2011 referendum on Southern independence could change their calculations.

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  • Vol 5 No 2
  •  December 2011

Pipeline problems

On 28 November, Sudan’s Petroleum Minister Ali Ahmed Osman announced that South Sudan would no longer be able to export its crude through the northern pipeline and Port Sudan, provoking the anger and intervention of the Chinese government.

  • Vol 4 No 10
  •  August 2011

A friend in need

With most of Sudan’s known oil reserves now belonging to the South Sudan government in Juba, the Sudanese government needs China even more. For Beijing, though, Khartoum may now be a less meaningful ally. Nonetheless, Khartoum hopes to maintain the t...

  • Vol 4 No 5
  •  March 2011

A new nation

Once an opponent of South Sudanese secession, then diplomatically agnostic, China is now making up for lost time in shoring up relations with the soon-to-be-independent Government of Southern Sudan to protect its current interests and develop new ones. Th...

  • Vol 4 No 5
  •  March 2011

Salva Kiir Mayardit

President, Southern Sudan

  • Vol 4 No 2
  •  December 2010

Beijing’s balancing act

Usually a supporter of territorial integrity, Beijing is making plans to adapt to the prospect of an oil-rich and independent Southern Sudan

  • Vol 4 No 1
  •  November 2010

Bullets over Darfur

China has breached the United Nations arms embargo on Darfur by failing to ‘take the necessary measures to prevent the supply of arms and related materiel of all types’ from reaching belligerents in the Darfur conflict, according to a report by a UN Panel...

  • Vol 3 No 11
  •  September 2010

China weighs its options

Whatever the outcome of next January's referendum on Southern independence, China wants its oil to keep flowing

  • Vol 3 No 11
  •  September 2010

Beijing backs Nairobi over Omer el Beshir

The International Criminal Court's arrest warrants for Sudanese President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir continues to cast clouds over China's Africa policy. Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki invited Omer el Beshir to Nairobi for the 27 August grand ceremony to c...

  • Vol 3 No 9
  •  July 2010

Oil - after independence

The coming referendum is concentrating minds - Sudanese, Chinese and Western - on how the oil wealth will be shared

  • Vol 3 No 9
  •  July 2010

Balancing act

When asked about the 12 July reinstatement by the International Criminal Court of genocide charges against Sudanese President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Qin Gang did not mention the ICC warrant but said that 'posit...

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