South Sudan: War-Ravaged South Sudan May Scrap Expensive Oil Subsidies

Sep 12, 2017 | Denis Dumo, Reuters
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War-ravaged South Sudan is considering scrapping state subsidies on oil because it hasn’t been able to pay civil servants for four months and diplomatic staff abroad are being evicted over unpaid rent, the deputy finance minister said. Ending the subsidies would free up desperately needed cash, Mou Ambrose Thiik told Reuters in an interview.