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Oil 11/07/2017

Roger Kennedy's (incognito) return

While block B has everyone's attention, South Sudan has other permits on offer that are attracting juniors into the country. [...]

Spotlight Corridors of power 07/07/2017

Corrupt elite grabs the oil spoils

Officially, the country wallows in crisis. For want of money, the South Sudanese government announced on June 24 that it was cancelling Independence Day festivities on July 9. However, oil continues to flow. On June 7 energy minister Ezekiel Loi [...]

Corridors of power 07/07/2017

Finger-pointing and confusion in Juba Free

South Sudan's fall into the abyss seems to be accelerating by the day (see here). Two of the government's leading [...]

Oil 27/06/2017

Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth fettered by Total on block B Free

South Sudan's oil minister, Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth, is in a huff. Negotiations with Total held at the Sheraton in Kampala [...]

Corridors of power 09/06/2017

The civil war just keeps rumbling on

As Riek Machar seeks to make a comeback peace talks remain at a standstill. [...]

Corridors of power 09/06/2017

Malong fails in revenge attack Free

When he was fired last month Paul Malong Awan, chief of staff of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), left [...]

Oil 30/05/2017

Juba gives Star Petroleum its marching orders

Business seems to have a series of major hurdles for Iranian-born Spanish businessman Farshad Zandi, owner of oil firm Star [...]

Corridors of power 26/05/2017

U.S. could call for Juba to be placed under international trusteeship

The South Sudanese president refuses to allow the U.S. to send a special envoy to Juba, forcing Washington to think of more radical alternatives. [...]

Oil 16/05/2017

What president Kilr is planning to replace Total

President Salva Kiir and his oil minister, Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth, [...]

Corridors of power 12/05/2017

Paul Malong Awan, a new insurgent against Salva Kiir's government

The former chief of staff of the Sudan People’s Liberation [...]

Corridors of power 12/05/2017

SPLA hunts SPLM-IO down among refugees in Uganda

According to our sources, Salva Kiir’s government in South Sudan [...]

Business circles 12/05/2017

Eagle Enterprise wants to spread its wings beyond national borders

Eagle Enterprise, a small South Sudanese airline that specializes in [...]

Companies 12/05/2017

Will Trinity Energy get its refinery ?

Richard Raja, a representative of the South Sudanese company Trinity [...]

Spotlight Oil 02/05/2017

Why talks with Total over block B have reached an impasse

Two months after Arthur Eze’s Nigerian junior Oranto was granted block B3 with great pomp (AEI 789), the South Sudanese authorities have met with the historical operator of block B, Total. The idea behind the talks is to hash out [...]

Oil 02/05/2017

Centurion Law eager to be local oil firms’ favourite

After helping the Equatorial Guinean oil minister Gabriel Obiang Lima [...]

Corridors of power 28/04/2017

Museveni changes his mind about Salva Kiir Free

Although he previously threw his unconditional support behind South Sudanese president Salva Kiir (ION 1441), Uganda's leader, Yoweri Museveni, has [...]

Business circles 28/04/2017

SFO launches probe of De La Rue

The Indian Ocean Newsletter has received a letter dated April [...]

Companies 28/04/2017

Kenya Commercial Bank starts turning its back on Juba

Efforts to overhaul the Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) are about [...]

Corridors of power 07/04/2017

Theft in high places and turmoil leave ambassadors penniless

According to information gleaned by the Indian Ocean Newsletter, South Sudan’s embassies in nearly 20 countries haven’t received money to [...]

Business circles Document 07/04/2017

Will SFO also investigate De la Rue international?

Following a host of articles and documents published in the Indian Ocean Newsletter (ION 1429) that revealed suspicions about the [...]

BUSINESSMEN 28/03/2017

Gabriel Lima goes all out on oil diplomacy

As we announced, Equatorial Guinean president Gabriel Obiang Lima signed an assistance memorandum of understanding in the oil sector with [...]

PALACE WHISPERS 24/03/2017

North American lawmakers asked to investigate

A civil society organization opposed to South Sudanese president Salva [...]

Breaking News 20/03/2017

Gabriel Obiang Lima seals oil alliance with Juba

According to our sources, Equatorial Guinea president Gabriel Obiang Lima is expected to sign an assistance memorandum of understanding (MoU) [...]

Oil 14/03/2017

Revelation on the wheeler-dealing to grab a share of Total's former block B

The South Sudanese government, which is in desperate straits, wants to speed up the sale of the new areas created by the break-up of this immense area abandoned by the French major [...]

CORRIDORS OF POWER 10/03/2017

An SPLA general on verge of joining opposition

According to the Indian Ocean Newsletter’s sources, the former number two man in the logistics department of the Sudan People’s [...]

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