Juba: Al-Burhan uses oil card to pressure South Sudan

Juba: Al-Burhan uses oil card to pressure South Sudan

Officials in Juba are raising concerns about the true intent behind General al-Burhan Army (SAF)-affiliated Port Sudan Authority’s decision to suspend South Sudan’s oil exports. While the Port Sudan Authority cites attacks by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) as the reason, some officials in South Sudan suspect that the move is primarily aimed at pressuring Juba to increase oil transit fees. The Port Sudan Authority has instructed oil companies to …

Analysts Fear South Sudan Being Drawn Into Sudan’s Civil War

As the African nation of Sudan enters the third year of its civil war, new strategic alliances may serve to pull the independent nation state of South Sudan into the fighting and ignite a wider conflict across the region. In February, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), which controls parts of Sudan’s southern states on the border with South Sudan, allied with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a splinter group which…