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Corridors of power 11/01/2019

UNDP backing for Salva Kiir's prisons

The National Prison Service of South Sudan (NPSSS) headed by [...]

Power brokers Document 11/01/2019

Agel Ring Machar seeks to rally Dinkas to Taban Deng Gai

The press attaché of the South Sudanese first vice president, Agel Ring Machar (Dinka), is trying to win the Dinkas [...]

Corridors of power 02/01/2019

Nile Petroleum: US Treasury sanctions South Africa's Israeli partner

On December 14, the US Treasury Department announced that it [...]

Corridors of power 07/12/2018

African Union issues ultimatum over release of SPLM POWs

According to information obtained by the Indian Ocean Newsletter from [...]

Business circles 27/11/2018

Pretoria and Juba add oil to list of joint projects

South Sudanese minister of petroleum, Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth and South [...]

Corridors of power 23/11/2018

As AMISOM departs, the Ethiopians arrive

With Western governments, not least the UK, concerned at the army taking over from AMISOM, Ethiopia is seeking to set up a base in the country… [...]

Business circles Document 09/11/2018

Trinity Energy, the oil operator underwriting the state

The South Sudanese petroleum products firm is becoming indispensable to the government by guaranteeing its loans with crude oil. [...]

Business circles 09/11/2018

Al Cardinal mediates between Kiir and Museveni

The involvement of the Uganda Peoples' Defence Force (UPDF) in the South Sudanese crisis is proving lucrative for the Ugandan [...]

Business circles 09/11/2018

DP World downsizes in Berbera

In developing Somaliland's port, the Emirati operator is having to contend with the new political configurations in the Horn. [...]

Power brokers 09/11/2018

Thon Simon Thok to retrieve his ministerial portfolio

According to information obtained by the Indian Ocean Newsletter, the minister of labour and public service in Jonglei state, Thon [...]

Business circles 26/10/2018

DP World in negotiations with Djibouti and Hargeisa

Following the ceremony to officially launch works at the port of Berbera on 11 October, the operations of the Dubai-based company in the Horn are creating political tensions… [...]

Power brokers Document 26/10/2018

Kerbino Wol Agok looks on from prison as accounts are frozen

After four months in detention without trial, the ex-captain of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) Kerbino Wol Agok has [...]

Power brokers 16/10/2018

Who did oil minister Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth meet in Moscow?

As we revealed (AEI 824), South Sudan's minister of oil Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth was invited to Moscow on October 5 [...]

Corridors of power 12/10/2018

The security forces set to oversee the transition

According to a memorandum relating to the Permanent Ceasefire and [...]

Business circles Document 12/10/2018

Al Cardinal Investment in the firing line in Juba

Contracts signed between Ashraf Said Ahmed Hussein's firm and the government are denounced to the Americans. [...]

Corridors of power 02/10/2018

Block B: Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth has until year-end to close the deal

Following the end of the exclusive negotiation process for blocks [...]

Corridors of power 28/09/2018

How the UPDF is helping Kiir to resume hostilities

Despite Salva Kiir signing a peace accord with the various opposition parties, including the SPLM-IO headed by the former vice [...]

Gas 18/09/2018

B1 and B2: Gazprom hawks holy alliance with Chinese and Nigerians

On the back of his decision to cut off all [...]

Corridors of power 14/09/2018

IOG's neighbours encircle and isolate him

The Ethiopian PM is rallying Eritrea and above all Somalia to exert pressure on Djibouti. [...]

Business circles 14/09/2018

Pressure for the return of DP World to Doraleh

‘We will continue to exploit every legal avenue to defend our rights as the shareholder and concession holder of the [...]

Corridors of power 31/08/2018

An elusive peace recedes still further Free

The ‘peace' agreement signed in Khartoum on 5 August seems to have marked but a further step towards the collapse [...]

Oil 21/08/2018

Total gone for good and block B up for the taking

South Sudanese oil minister Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth's anger burned fiercely [...]

Power brokers 07/08/2018

[Africa's behind-the-scenes international business barons] 3/4 - The Asian business interests of South Sudan's presidential family

Salva Kiir, the president of South Sudan since its independence in 2011, has also been presiding, though more discreetly, over one of leading family consortiums in this fledgling country. Many members of his family are active in business, often in partnership with Asian companies. [...]

Business circles Companies Document 27/07/2018

Will ESP Holding be bankrolling Salva Kiir?

A letter sent on 11 July by the acting chairperson [...]

Business circles 13/07/2018

Who is gaining from renewed oil production?

Juba is trying to coordinate the relaunch of its oil production with Khartoum, but it's the corporations that are cleaning up… [...]

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