{"id":17015,"date":"2024-03-30T02:35:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T02:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=17015"},"modified":"2024-03-30T02:35:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T02:35:05","slug":"sudans-war-strangles-south-sudan-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/30\/sudans-war-strangles-south-sudan-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan&#8217;s War Strangles South Sudan Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>South Sudan&#8217;s Minister of Finance, Awu Daniel Chuang, said that the country&#8217;s revenues from crude oil sales had diminished due to the ongoing war in its northern neighbor, Sudan, which led to the disruption of a pipeline linking to the port of Port Sudan, which contributed to the delay in disbursing the salaries of government employees in South Sudan.<br \/>\nSouth Sudan was pumping about 150,000 barrels per day of crude oil for export through Sudan, and paying it transit fees according to a formula that was agreed upon when South Sudan seceded in 2011, taking with it most of the oil production that the unified Sudan had.<br \/>\nThree Sudanese officials told Reuters earlier this week that the main pipeline from South Sudan has been at a standstill since last month, due to problems related to the war between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces RSF.<br \/>\nChuang added in a press conference on Thursday that government employees have not received their salaries for 6 months for reasons including a decline in oil revenues.<br \/>\nHe added, \u201cThe situation has worsened due to what is happening in Sudan&#8230; and South Sudan depends on oil for more than 90% to finance its government expenses.\u201d<br \/>\nRepresentative Peter Magaya Ngbanagano, who is responsible for a parliamentary subcommittee on oil affairs, stated in a letter to President Salva Kiir last Tuesday that the stoppage, if it continues, could lead to losses of no less than $100 million per month.<br \/>\nThe Sudanese Minister of Energy, Mohieldin Naiem, announced in a message dated the 16th of this month a state of force majeure, due to a \u201cmajor rupture\u201d in the pipeline that transports crude oil from South Sudan to the city of Port Sudan on the Red Sea for export.<br \/>\nThe message stated that the rupture occurred in February in the \u201cmilitary operations area\u201d in Sudan, where the conflict has been raging since April of last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies South Sudan&#8217;s Minister of Finance, Awu Daniel Chuang, said that the country&#8217;s revenues from crude oil sales had diminished due to the ongoing war in its northern neighbor, Sudan, which led to the disruption of a pipeline linking to the port of Port Sudan, which contributed to the delay in disbursing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17020,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17015\/revisions\/17020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}