South Sudan: South Sudan Claims Oil Still Flows, Experts Disagree

Dec 30, 2014 | John Tanza, Voice of America
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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"It's only the Unity fields where the workers were withdrawn because there was a threat of more destruction there, but the oil has been flowing.  It has never stopped for one day," he said.