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South Sudan Shutting Down Oil Output As Kenya Pipeline Deal Is Signed

Newly-independent South Sudan is in the process of implementing a gradual shutdown of its oil production activities after admissions from the North that it had begun confiscating southern oil as payment in kind for what it said were unpaid transit fees. And having long sought an export route through East Africa to free it from its dependence on its northern neighbor, the South has announced the signing of an...