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Tuesday, December 24, 2013
The government of South Sudan, in response to reports that rebel forces have taken over the oil fields in Unity and Upper Nile states, maintain that it is in control of the country’s oil fields and will not accept a rebel demand for politicians detained by the authorities over a “foiled coup” to be freed for peace talks to start, the information minister said.
The country’s former vice president, Riek Machar, said on December 23 that his rebel forces were in control of all the major oil fields in Unity and Upper Nile states and that he was open to dialogue with Juba but only if his political allies were released from detention.
“There is no way we will release anybody who is accused of a coup d’etat,” Information Minister Michael Makuei told Reuters, while also dismissing Machar’s comments about controlling South Sudan’s oil fields as “wishful thinking.”
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