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Oct 11 2008, Alesio Clement

Apart from clashing with the simmering internal political tensions and pleasures contentious issues such as Dar Fur crisis, sharing of oil and non-oil revenues between Khartoum and the semi-autonomous Southern Sudan, prices of basic communities shot up...

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In this Aug. 30, 2005 file photo, a trader in the oil futures pit at the New York Mercantile Exchange yells out his bid during early trading in New York. Commodities soared in 2008 _ including oil reaching a once-unthinkable $147.27 a barrel and gold...