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Oil tanks at Manga Oil Field in Unity state (not captured). South
Sudan has now sold 10 million barrels of oil since the oil production resumed
in May this year
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South Sudan's rebels captured a refinery near a key oilfield in Upper
Nile State, where fighting has flared up in recent days, their spokesman said
on Tuesday.
The rebel group SPLM/SPLA also told
all oil companies operating in Upper Nile state they should shut down and
evacuate their staff immediately because of ongoing clashes with government
soldiers, spokesman James Gatdet Dak said in a statement, according to Reuters.
"In response to the government's full-scale
offensive on our positions in the three states of greater Upper Nile region, we
have decided to take control of the oilfields and deny Salva Kiir from using
the oil revenues to perpetuate the war," he said.
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