Sudan pumps oil from war-damaged Heglig

Sudan said on Wednesday it had begun pumping oil again from its war-damaged main Heglig oil facility, 12 days after occupying South Sudanese troops left the area. Oil Minister Awad Ahmad al-Jaz did not answer a reporter’s question about how much has been pumped. "We didn't fix all the things that were destroyed. We fixed what can help the oil flow through the pipeline. Now the oil has reached the refinery in Khartoum," the minister added. Officials allege that the South Sudanese, who occupied the area for 10 days, had deliberately damaged the pipeline and an adjacent central processing facility and power plant, where a fire left partly blackened and burned, with oil seeping onto the ground.