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S.Sudan says deal made with Sudan warring sides over key oilfield

Employees working for the authorities load a body bag into the back of a lorry as bodies are dug up from an emergency burial site inside a school, to be buried in public cemeteries, in the capital Khartoum on December 8, 2025.[AFP]

South Sudan said Thursday it had come to an agreement with warring parties over a key oilfield in Sudan's southern Kordofan, near the country's border, after the site was seized by paramilitaries.

Kordofan, where the Heglig oil field lies, has become the epicentre of the Sudanese civil war after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) took control of the entire Darfur region in the west of the country in October.

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