http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Sat, 18 May 2013 09:28:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/04/03/china%e2%80%99s-sudanese-dilemma-secure-oil-whatever-the-cost/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/04/03/china%e2%80%99s-sudanese-dilemma-secure-oil-whatever-the-cost/#comments Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:10:03 +0000 Tim Daiss http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=33809 News broke in late March that South Sudan ordered its oil companies to start production again. The fledgling Sub-Saharan nation stopped oil exports in January 2012 amid failed negotiations with Sudan over oil transmission prices. Not that this is anything new. The two Sudans reached an agreement last September but it was never implemented due to disagreement over border security issues.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/04/03/china%e2%80%99s-sudanese-dilemma-secure-oil-whatever-the-cost/feed/ 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/22/note-to-refugees-from-south-sudan-israel-is-for-the-white-man/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/22/note-to-refugees-from-south-sudan-israel-is-for-the-white-man/#comments Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:19:10 +0000 Richard Sudan http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25603 These were the astonishing words uttered by Israel's interior minister Eli Yishai in an interview recently in which he outlined the Israeli government's view of African migrants.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/22/note-to-refugees-from-south-sudan-israel-is-for-the-white-man/feed/ 0 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/02/21/hidden-agenda-westminsters-wilful-time-wasting/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/02/21/hidden-agenda-westminsters-wilful-time-wasting/#comments Mon, 21 Feb 2011 13:47:21 +0000 Oliver Duggan http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=9117 At first glance the order of business in the House of Commons on 28th February may seem as monotonous, innocuous and removed from public consciousness as any other day. The regular business of elected representatives rarely demand the interests of those they represent.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/02/21/hidden-agenda-westminsters-wilful-time-wasting/feed/ 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/02/10/america-africa-and-the-hope-for-stability/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/02/10/america-africa-and-the-hope-for-stability/#comments Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:19:47 +0000 Oliver Duggan http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=8681 America’s time as an international broker for peace may be coming to an end. Their influence may be dwindling in the face of economic weakness and hollers of a return to isolationism at home, and an increasingly strong, if quiet, voice from the Far East. There may only be one act left in the play [...]]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/02/10/america-africa-and-the-hope-for-stability/feed/ 0