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S.Sudan announces deal with Sudan warring sides to secure key oil field

Workers 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 Khartoum on December 8, 2025. [AFP]

South Sudan said Thursday it had reached an agreement with warring parties for it to secure a key oil field in Sudan near the border after the site was seized by paramilitaries.

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