South Sudan Claims Oil Still Flows, Experts Disagree

South Sudan Foreign Minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin said Tuesday that oil production, the backbone of the country's economy, has not been affected by the year-old conflict in the young nation. "There is no fighting in the oil areas. The oil has been flowing since December 2013," Marial told South Sudan in Focus in a telephone interview from Khartoum. "It's only the Unity fields where the workers were withdrawn because there was a threat of more destruction...

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