(MENAFN- AFP) The flow of oil from South Sudan through northern pipelines has been unaffected by a week of fighting on southern soil, Juba's ambassador to Khartoum said on Sunday.
"Nothing happened to the oil," Ambassador Mayen Dut Wol told AFP on the sidelines of a news conference.
"So oil is flowing and up to this morning I was talking with the minister of petroleum and oil in Southern Sudan and he told me that nothing has happened to petroleum facilities."
Oil is "flowing peacefully", the ambassador said.
Petroleum companies have started pulling staff out of South Sudan's oil-rich Unity state, which borders Sudan, after several local oil workers were singled out on ethnic grounds and killed last week.
There has also been fighting in and around the state capital Bentiu.
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