But the north has the pipeline, refinery and the export terminal at Port Sudan on the Red Sea.

BBC: South Sudan in Kenyan oil pipeline deal

Most oilfields are in the landlocked south, which needs northern pipelines to Port Sudan on the Red Sea to export the stuff.

ECONOMIST: Sudan's split

Its trade officials plan to do more business via the port of Berbera in Somaliland, a mostly unrecognised breakaway from Somalia, and with Port Sudan in Sudan.

ECONOMIST: Shipping in east Africa

He's diverted five ships to the Port of Sudan.

NPR: After Peace Deal, Next Steps in Darfur

This has influenced key flagship projects including Lamu Port and the Lamu-Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor.

BBC: Impression of Konza City

Their livelihoods and cultural existence are at stake with the government's plan to build a mega port and transport corridor linking Lamu to South Sudan and Ethiopia.

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South Sudan accuses Sudan of arming Yau Yau's rebellion in order to block South Sudan's plans to build an oil pipeline through Ethiopia to a port in Djibouti.

NPR: South Sudan Military Says 163 Killed In Clashes

South Sudan, for years the largest oil producer in the region and locked in an oil dispute with Sudan, now wants to send crude out through Kenya on a pipeline to a proposed new port in Lamu (see map).

ECONOMIST: African energy