Juba fears oil exports will halt as fighting in Sudan goes on
Channel: Alkebu-lan Africa
Date: 2023-05-08

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As fighting continues in Sudan amid a shaky ceasefire, the neighbouring South Sudan faces economic ruin due to the threat the conflict in the north poses to its mainstay – oil exports.

The fighting in Sudan erupted on April 15 between forces loyal to Sudan's military leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces under his deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo 'Hemedti'.
South Sudanese and government officials say the fighting risks damage to the pipeline that transports crude from the oilfields to Port Sudan in the Red Sea.

For Juba, oil accounts for over 90 percent of the government budget and 70 percent of the GDP. Any disruption spells doom to an already ailing economy, with an inflation rate of 27.8 percent, according to the IMF, and a high risk of debt distress.

Pipeline could be damaged
Peter Biar Ajak, a South Sudanese scholar in the Belfer Centre's International Security Programme in the US this week told Al Jazeera that the country is concerned that if the fighting continues the pipeline could be damaged.