Chinese oil company evacuates oil workers from South Sudan BEIJING (23 Jul.)
The China National Petroleum Company has evacuated most of its workers from South Sudan after fighting started in the capital Juba earlier this month, a staterun paper announced on Tuesday. Many foreigners have been evacuated from South Sudan after a deadly fighting erupted in Juba, and lasted for four days between forces of President Salva Kiir and Vice President Riek Machar. At least 500 people were killed in that attack, and First Vice President Machar has fled the capital. "From July 12 to 18, the company has successfully evacuated 191 CNPC employees due to the conflict in South Sudan. CNPC also helped to evacuate another 157 people working in Chinese organizations there," a state outlet said. "So far, CNPC’s production operations are still stable and in good order in South Sudan." CNPC said after the evacuation it will have 77 staff members left to maintain security at its operations, with 24 of them based in Juba. -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14opKyn1SARQwgvrzPvD4AA-9JSsqCMPY_-4VAxNr7hegtQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
