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Sudan and South Sudan have reached a border security agreement which will allow the resumption of southern oil exports through the north. Spokesmen for both sides said on Wednesday that leaders of the African neighbours reached a breakthrough after four days of talks in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and his South Sudanese counterpart Salva Kiir have met six times since Sunday to iron out a pact key to reviving their economies after their armies came close to all-out war along a disputed frontier in April.
And the African Union has been striving to broker the agreement and the U.N. Security Council has warned of sanctions against both states if no deal is made. The U.N. previously set a September 22nd deadline for a deal, but that was informally extended until the end of the Addis Ababa summit.
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir (R) sits with South Sudan's Cabinet
Affairs Minister Deng Alor, also a member of the Dinka ethnic group, at
the meeting table at the Sheraton hotel in Ethiopia's capital Addis
Ababa September 25, 2012.
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