South Sudan restarts its oil production after the conflict halted exports for nearly a year.

Life in the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service.

I'm Leanna Byrne. Good morning.

South Sudan is resuming oil production nearly a year after war neighbouring Sudan halted exports.

The conflict damaged a key pipeline

and since the country is landlocked,

all of its oil had to pass through Sudan

to get to international markets.

This disruption hits out Sudan hard.

Oil exports account for a huge chunk of the country's revenue,

so when the flow stopped,

civil servants and even soldiers went unpaid for much of last year.

Petroleum minister Putkang Chol told the BBC that he's aiming to produce about 90,000 barrels per day.

In 2011, it was 350.

But then when the country went into conflict, a lot of things change.

The investors had to hold back. But our objective is to get to where we were before the conflict. A lot of things change. The investors are to hold back, but our objective is to get to

where we were before the conflict. The fact that we have resumed, it will give Ministry of Finance

the opportunity to plan better because they will know that they have something in the pipeline.

They have something that will be coming compared to now when they know that there is nothing

that is going to be there in the next one or two months. But with a resumption now, it will give

them an opportunity to plan and see how best they can meet the demand of the civil servants,

because these are the people that are running the government, basically. But what are the

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