According to a text seen by AFP by Sudan’s army-aligned government, the country’s government has instructed energy companies to make to prevent handling crude petrol from South Sudan, which relies on its neighbor for imports. Following a string of helicopter attacks attributed to rival paramilitaries, the Sudanese power and petroleum government informed its South Sudanese counterpart on Friday that” the risk of halt of export operations is really high.” In Sudan’s army-controlled areas this week, a key pump station and a fuel depot were struck, according to the letter, as the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces ( RSF ) have been increasingly aiming at government infrastructure and have had an impact on crucial electricity and fuel facilities.
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Since April 2023, the conflict between the regular troops and the RSF has claimed tens of thousands of lives, uprooted 13 million, and spread vibrations throughout East Africa and beyond. South Sudan’s crucial oil imports are typically shipped to international markets from Port Sudan on the Red Sea, where Sudan is landlocked and impoverished, with Sudan receiving a discount as a travel cost. Following the damage caused by network deterioration in clashes between the troops and the RSF, imports via Sudan resumed in January after roughly a month of suspension. The current movement of crude oil is estimated by local internet in South Sudan at 110, 000 containers per day. Sudan’s federal has once more given oil companies instructions to create pipeline plans following the most recent drone attacks. The power agency’s email reads,” The program will be put into action if these attacks, which jeopardize these facilities and delete us from carrying out our responsibility… continue,” according to a backup provided to AFP on Saturday. South Sudanese leaders did not respond right away. The young region, which had taken control of roughly three-quarters of Sudan’s oil reserves when it gained independence in 2011, had suffered a dramatic decline in its economy as a result of the country’s slow exports last year. Vice-president Riek Machar‘s allies, including South Sudan’s petrol minister Puot Kang Chol, were detained earlier this year amid a persistent conflict between President Salva Kiir and his lieutenant Machar, threatening to break the fragile peace agreement between the two parties. Juba has been accused of siding with the RSF by the Sudanese troops.
