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Friday, January 10, 2014
South Sudan will receive no help in protecting its oil fields from Sudan, despite reports to the contrary in the past few days. Sudan’s army said it has no intention of forming a joint force to help South Sudan. Khartoum backed down from statements made earlier that South Sudan had requested talks on the deployment of a joint force.
Sudan’s Army spokesman Colonel Khaled Sawarmi cited past failure to improve military cooperation with South Sudan to explain Khartoum’s position. “There is no common ground between the two armies,” he told Reuters.
South Sudan is in the midst of a battle with rebels led by former vice president Riek Machar. The fighting, which broke out in mid-December, has led to more than 1,000 people being killed and 200,000 or more displaced. Juba also saw oil wells, the life blood of the struggling country, seized by rebels.
Most recently South Sudan saw thousands flee the oil-rich city of Bentiu as fears grow that government troops are launching an offensive to retake it from rebels. Some of Bentiu’s citizens have taken refuge at the city’s UN base.
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