International countries and organizations donors pledge nearly $5 billion in aid to assist Sudan through 2011 to implement a 2005 north-south peace deal in the troubled country.

Southern Sudan offered Total SA land to build a base and start operating in the North African country

The Sudanese army today denied a report on the abduction of nine Egyptian workers in oil fields in South Kordofan, terming the report as "false."

Sudan's highly politicised census drew to a close on Tuesday with monitors estimating the country was 90 percent covered, although many in the capital Khartoum said they had not yet been counted.

A US private investment company claiming rights over oil concessions in southern Sudan said that the Vice-President of the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) will endorse an agreement it had signed in 2004.

Villagers in the south curse a refinery for causing forced relocations, for spreading disease and ravaging the environment.

Government of Southern Sudan minister of Energy and Mining has said in Bor Town that "what is happening in Jonglei is cattle theft and has nothing to do with Oil Companies."

Following a protest by leaders of indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon, Talisman CEO John Manzoni vowed that Talisman would not perform oil and gas exploration without the consent of the people living in the area

Almost halfway into Sudan’s crucial national census, security problems, lingering mistrust between Northern and Southern authorities, logistics and heavy rain continue to beset the exercise across states in the South.

Sudan is targeting an increase of 100,000 barrels of oil a day mid-2009 as the result of new investments, particularly Chinese, come on stream