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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:41:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>India's MRPL offers euro payment for Nile Blend</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[NEW DELHI - Indian state-run Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd has offered to pay in euros for spot purchase of Sudanese Nile Blend crude and traders said most sellers preferred the currency as Sudan faced U.S. sanctions.
"We have given this additional option to increase competition. It is based on the market feedback," MRPL (MRPL.BO) Director of Finance L.K. Gupta told Reuters on Monday.
The company issued an amendment on Friday to its latest tender, allowing euro payments.
Gupta did...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:41:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>British Council to Host Mombasa's 'Strategic Leaders' Conference</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Transforming organisations into being productive,more globally competitive and socially responsible:
MOMBASA - Mombasa is bringing together leaders from Kenya , Nigeria , Botswana , Tanzania , Sudan , Ethiopia , Ghana , Cameroon , Malawi , Namibia , Senegal , and the UK , from March 24 - 27, 2009
All the participants have completed a leadership programme in one of the hub events held earlier in Botswana , Ghana and the UK .
Strategic Leaders Programme is for senior business leaders, bankers and...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:39:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>South Africa calls on African states to increase trade and cooperation with South Sudan</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Tshwane, South Africa - Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Sue van der Merwe has urged African countries to increase trade and investment with southern Sudan, to help the country tackle the challenges of post-conflict reconstruction.
Speaking at a trade and investment seminar in Johannesburg on Thursday, the deputy minister said while the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) was signed in January 2005 bringing an end to a long period of civil war in Southern Sudan, there were numerous challenges...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:47:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Zain Telecom Sudan opens new office in South Sudan making it third office in the region</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[KHARTOUM - Zain Telecom Sudan has expanded operations in Sudan by opening a new regional office in the semi-autonomous region of South Sudan on Wednesday.
The new office, located in Wau city, Bahr El-Ghazal province, is the third in the region after Juba and Malakal offices, director of regional office department of Zain Telecom Sudan Habib Abdulmen'em told KUNA Khartoum.
It will offer integrated services to residents of city and the neighboring areas, Abdulmen'em said.The opening of the office...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:42:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>New airline company SKYJET starts operations in South Sudan</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Kampala, Uganda - SKYJET, a new airline company, has launched fights on the Entebbe - Juba route.
A return air ticket will cost $390 (about sh764,400) inclusive of taxes.
The service is expected to easy transport and promote business between Uganda and South Sudan.
A white bull was on Sunday slaughtered at Juba Airport to commemorate the inaugural flight witnessed by Garang Deng Aguer, the proprietor, and Musoke Tamale, the Kampala operations manager.
"We used to fly from Entebbe to Juba via...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:51:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Russian automaker GAZ to open new plant to assemble trucks in Sudan</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[NIZHNY NOVGOROD - &#160;Urals-based truck manufacturer Ural, part of Russia's second largest automaker GAZ Group, plans to organize the assembly of 2,000 trucks in 2010 in Sudan, the GAZ Group press office said Tuesday.
The first batch of 50 vehicle sets will be shipped to the northeastern African country this year, the press office said.
Viktor Korman, head of the GAZ Group truck division, said exports had been declared a priority direction for the automaker in 2009. The Ural auto factory...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:38:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) to Open in South Sudan</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA &#160;- The Public Financial Enterprises Supervisory Agency (PFESA) approved 15 million dollars the state owned Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) has requested to open a branch in Juba, South Sudan. The Agency has given the green light for CBE's request last Monday, January 12, 2009.
South Sudan banking regulations require a minimum of 15 million dollars establishment capital for foreign firms to enter the industry in its territory, according to knowledgeable...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:56:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>New GSM Network Launched in Southern Sudan</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[&#160;LONDON/JUBA -&#160;­Vivacell has announced that it launched a commercial GSM 900/1800 network in Southern Sudan on the 22nd of Dec 2008. Vivacell is one of four GSM operators licensed to operate in Southern Sudan but is the first to be headquartered in Southern Sudan.
At launch, four states are covered including the capital city Juba.
During the first half of 2009, Vivacell aims to extend its coverage footprint to all of the 10 States.
Last April, Zain launched a GSM network in Southern...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Kenyan and East African Investors flocking to S.SUDAN</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[NAIROBI, KENYA - Kenyan investors have started moving to Sudan in large number following the signing of the historic Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA) between Northern and Southern Sudan in 2005.
According to a number of Kenyans who have put up investments in Sudan the business climate is healthy. The Kenyans have since been joined by other investors from Africa, especially Uganda.
Most traders narrate tales of success in a land they describe as one full of hope and light and with friendly...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:42:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>SABMiller Africa opens new beverage plant in Sudan</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[JUBA - SABMiller Plc, the world’s third- largest brewer, plans to build the first ever brewery in&#160;southern Sudan, a region which spent more than two decades fighting for independence from the mainly Muslim north.
The $37 million brewery, in the region’s capital of Juba, will start brewing operations in February, with the production of soft drinks starting “shortly thereafter,” London-based SABMiller said in&#160;statement&#160;on its Web site dated Dec. 10.
Southern Sudan became a...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:06:00 +0200</pubDate>
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