S. Sudan accuses north of ‘illegal’ pipeline

News Wires

 06 April 2012 07:47 GMT

South Sudan accused Sudan of trying to build an "illegal" 25-kilometre oil pipeline crossing the border towards the South's oilfields, a day after talks to resolve a damaging oil dispute between the two sides were postponed, according to a report.

A Sudanese government spokesman was not immediately available to comment, Reuters said.

The two former civil war foes have been locked in a bitter dispute over oil payments and other issues, and clashes in the ill-defined border region last week gave rise to concern they might blow up into a new war.

Landlocked South Sudan – which seceded from Sudan in July – shut down its entire 350,000-barrel-per-day oil production in January as part of the dispute, although crude oil brings in 98% of its state revenues.

South Sudan's army "discovered an illegal pipeline that was being built by Sudan,”military…

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