Summary
South Sudan won independence from Sudan in 2011 following decades of brutal fighting marked by the mass abduction and enslavement of children, scorched earth ethnic cleansing and famines.
The north-south rapprochement comes as violent protests ripple across Sudan, demanding an end to soaring prices and Bashir's 30-year rule. But although South Sudan spent decades fighting Bashir, the idea that he might fall worries many of his former foes.
South Sudan has just emerged from its own five-year civil war.
Landlocked South Sudan has most of the oil, but Sudan has the pipeline and port it needs to export it.
Sudan receives roughly $9 to $11 for each barrel of South Sudan's oil that flows through its pipeline.
Sudan even helped fix the south's broken wells, oil minister Gatkuoth said.
South Sudan is largely Christian; Sudan is mostly Muslim.
Gosh was even more central to South Sudan's peace deal than Bashir himself, Boswell said.
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