Sudan blames rebels for blast, fire

In a Thursday statement, Sudan’s Army Spokesman Sawarmi Khaled Saad said that the rebels “…received technical support from South Sudan’s army to help them explode the pipeline (on Wednesday)… which led to a fire that has now been controlled.”

This comes after Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir ordered the stoppage of oil transfers through Sudanese territory from South Sudan, saying the government of President Salva Kiir is supporting rebels in Sudan.

“Bashir ordered the minister of oil to stop the flow of South Sudanese oil from tomorrow, Sunday,” Sudan’s state media reported on June 8.

“Sudan will not allow revenues from oil exports from South Sudan to be used to support rebels and mercenaries against Sudan,” Bashir said.

Sudan’s Information Minister Ahmed Bilal Osman and the country’s intelligence chief Mohammed Atta both confirmed that the oil shutdown started and it would continue for 60 days.

This is while, Juba denies Khartoum’s accusations of supporting rebels in Sudan.

In March, Sudan and South Sudan struck a deal to resume the flow of southern oil exports through pipelines in the north. The pipelines, which are South Sudan’s only route to international market, carry oil from the landlocked South through Sudan to a port on the Red Sea.

Two neighbors also agreed to withdraw their troops from contested border areas to ease tensions and facilitate the resumption of oil exports.

South Sudan seceded from the Republic of Sudan on July 9, 2011, after decades of conflict with Khartoum. The new oil-rich nation is one of the least developed countries in the world, with one in seven children dying before the age of five.

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