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Vol 5 No 7
May 2012

Beijing faces both ways

Pressure is mounting on President Hu Jintao’s government to use its commercial ties with Juba and Khartoum for constructive diplomacy

Vol 5 No 7
May 2012

Eight billion dollars, a mike and no peace

Border clashes between Sudan and South Sudan brought an early close to Salva Kiir Mayardit’s trip to China, originally due to end on 28 April. After a session with President Hu Jintao on 24 April, in which Salva Kiir said that the North had ‘declared war ...

Vol 5 No 7
May 2012

Threats to Lamu lifeline

Conflict between the Sudans, lack of consultation with local people and regional politics could undermine the massive project

Vol 5 No 4
February 2012

Workers safe but oil at risk

Oil rows and workers caught in the crossfire force Beijing to develop political and military tools to accompany its ever-growing economic muscle

Vol 5 No 4
February 2012

Oil flows eastward

Tension in Sudan and South Sudan boosts the Kenyan backers of the Lamu port and corridor projects. South Sudanese officials had already been in talks to join their planned pipeline up to the Ugandan oil fields at Lake Albert that are being developed by Tu...

Vol 5 No 3
January 2012

Pa’gan Amum Okiech

Secretary General, Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, South Sudan

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

Get in line

Asian partners are queuing up in Juba to offer South Sudan, the world’s newest state, aid, peacekeepers and trade

Vol 4 No 10
August 2011

Nhial Deng Nhial

Minister of Foreign Affairs, South Sudan

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