[00:39.28]given that he is now back at home and the message from the President’s office is that
[00:45.01] he is improving and he’s had a sustained improvement in his hospital condition.
[00:51.99]South Sudan has started to pump oil again ending a bitter 15-month row with Sudan that’s cost both countries billions of dollars in lost revenues.
[01:00.42]Oil production was halted early last year
[01:02.51]after landlocked South Sudan accused its neighbour of hiking transit fees to pipe the oil to international markets via Port Sudan.
[01:09.87]Emi Suhardi Mohd Fadzil is president of one of the companies operating in the South.
[01:14.45]He says the decision will benefit South Sudan.
[01:17.05]“We keep saying when the oil flew then the nation glow, so yeah, I think South Sudan’s economy is going to revive.
[01:24.88]And always these are oil resumption.
[01:27.38]The economy of South Sudan practically depends on oil so now the oil has flown, so it should be better for the nation.”
[01:34.01]The federal prosecutor’s office in Brazil has ordered police to investigate allegations of corruption against the former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
[01:42.95]A businessman at the center of a long-running corruption scandal
[01:46.24]told prosecutors that the former president received money from illegal scheme that used public funds to pay coalition partners’ parties for political support.