White Nile set to start drilling for oil in Southern Sudan

White Nile, the AIM-quoted company chaired by former Middlesex and England cricket star Phil Edmonds, expects to start drilling for oil in Southern Sudan early in 2006.

..Although Southern Sudan is not exactly the most stable part of Africa, progress has been made since the January peace treaty. A new constitution for Southern Sudan was signed in Juba, the South’s administrative capital, on 5 December.