KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Sudan's president threatened to block pipelines in the south if the government there doesn't pay to transit oil or share it with Khartoum, the official news agency reported Wednesday.
Southern Sudan voted overwhelmingly in January to secede from Sudan and become an independent country in July. That vote was part of a 2005 peace deal that ended more than two decades of war.
The two governments are still negotiating how oil wealth will be shared between the north and the south.
President Omar al-Bashir's comments late Tuesday in the port city of Port Sudan seem to be hardening his side's negotiating position, particularly in the context of borders …
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