Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — South Sudan has reported the renewal of crude oil production. Officials said South Sudan resumed oil production more than 14 months after it was halted because of the conflict with neighboring Sudan. The officials said Juba’s oil output was expected to reach the pre-suspension level of 375,000 barrels per day. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — The Israel Navy has been recruited to protect against infiltration by African migrants. Military sources said the General Staff has ordered the Navy to increase patrols of the Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea amid concern that African migrants would try to infiltrate the Jewish state. The sources said migrants […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — South Sudan has offered to withdraw its army from the border with its northern neighbor. South Sudan President Salva Kiir said the new republic was ready to pull out its troops from the disputed border with Sudan. Kiir said the withdrawal marked a condition for the resumption of crude oil […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Global Information System Israel’s precision air strike on Oct. 24, against the Yarmouk weapons production facility in the suburbs of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, was — apart from destroying a facility which provided rockets and missiles to Hamas to use against Israel — clearly intended to send a direct message to the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Egypt and Israel have joined their militaries to prevent the flow of African migrants. Human rights activists said Egypt’s military was coordinating to stop Eritrean and Sudanese migrants from crossing the border into Israel. They said the Egyptian Army allowed Israeli troops to capture the migrants in the Sinai […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Sudan and its new southern neighbor have signed an oil export agreement. Under the agreement, South Sudan agreed to pay $9.48 per barrel to transport crude oil through the pipelines of its northern neighbor, Sudan. The oil would be pumped to a Red Sea port for export. A statement by […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Sudan and South Sudan have failed to reach agreement to establish a demilitarized zone. Officials said the Khartoum regime and its new southern neighbor presented significantly different maps in trying to delineate a demilitarized zone. The officials said Juba cited British maps from the 1950s that sought to separate the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Heavy fighting has resumed in Sudan’s Darfour. The Sudanese Army said rebels have clashed with soldiers in North Darfour in early June. In a series of clashes, the Army said, at least 45 Darfour rebels were killed. “There were also Sudanese troops killed,” Sudanese Army spokesman Sawarme Khalid Saad said. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — A leading arms smuggler to the Gaza Strip was said to have been killed in Sudan. Officials said a leading Sudanese weapons trader was killed in his car on May 22 in Port Sudan. They identified the victim as Nasser Awadallah Ahmed Said, 65, deemed a leading member of the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States has been urged to ship anti-aircraft batteries to South Sudan. A former senior U.S. official said South Sudan required urgent assistance to repel the daily air strikes by Sudan. Former U.S. special envoy to Sudan Andrew Natsios said U.S. air defense batteries to Juba would force the […]