KHARTOUM: North Sudan said on Friday it is holding an oil shipment from South Sudan because the new African state has failed to pay custom duties.
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Customs authorities in the northern oil export port Port Sudan have stopped one shipment because duties had not been paid, a spokesman for the foreign ministry in Khartoum said. He said he did not much how much oil was affected.
Newly-independent South Sudan has to export its oil via the north because its had no port or refineries of its own.
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