South Sudan: South Sudan Oil Field Becomes Battleground as Economy Reels

May 25, 2015 | Ilya Gridneff, Bloomberg
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After 17 months of civil war spanning a swathe of South Sudan bigger than Syria, President Salva Kiir’s survival may hinge on the fate of a single oil field. Paloch in Upper Nile state, the only region still pumping crude in a nation with sub-Saharan Africa’s third-largest reserves, has re-emerged as the rebels’ prime target.