TENSIONS BETWEEN SUDAN and South Sudan are set to rise even further as the latter finally put pen to paper on a controversial pipeline deal with Kenya. The African neighbours signed a memorandum of understanding to build the pipeline linking oilfields in the world's newest nation to the Kenyan port of Lamu close to the Somali border. The country's deputy Petroleum and Mining Minister Elizabeth James Bol said construction should take about 11 months. The issue of raising funds for the pipeline is complicated by the recent shutting-in of oil production in South Sudan in response to the perceived "theft" of its resources by Sudan to the north.
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