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Monday, June 8, 2015
As the fighting continues in South Sudan between government troops and rebel troops loyal to former vice president Riek Machar, the country’s main commodity, oil production, and its citizens suffer. The latest reports out of the country have rebel troops claiming that they have captured oil fields in Unity state and their aim was to capture and shut down all the country’s fields.
The fighting between the two sides has been going on for almost 18 months and while cease fires have been initiated, they have never lasted long.
Rebel SPLA-In-Opposition spokesman James Gatdet Dak said in a statement that the group’s soldiers had taken control of the Unity oilfields, the government, however, denies this and says it is in control but the fighting is continuing.
Production at the Unity field stopped shortly after the outset of fighting at the end of 2013.
Dak said the rebel’s next targets are the Adar and Paloch oilfields in Upper Nile state. The Paloch is one field that has not been constricted by the fighting, but if the rebels succeed the country’s oil production may drop even further.
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