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Government signs new $30 million oil deal

    NAIROBI

    The government on Sunday signed an oil exploration deal with a transnational oil consortium covering around 70,000 square miles in central Sudan. These include the Adar Yel oilfields near Melut in Upper Nile state, Reuters quoted the state-owned ‘Alwan’ newspaper as saying. The consortium, Melut Petroleum Company, is due to spend US $30 million exploring and developing the concession over three years. An independent Canadian-commissioned mission reported in February that oil had become a key issue in the civil war, and that extraction by the Canadian firm Talisman in Upper Nile was linked to government human rights abuses against civilian populations.

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