Rebels in Darfur and Kordofan threaten to further break up the Sudanese state.
Neither country can profit from oil production without the other.
This is an internal Stratfor document listing significant meetings and events for the next week.
A Swiss-Dutch company has agreed to purchase South Sudanese crude oil.
Finding the Lord's Resistance Army rebels is complicated by persistent geographic constraints.
Political and security issues are hindering a settlement.
Generational changes worldwide will be hard to deny in 2013.
The alleged plot by 13 military officers shows cracks in President Omar al Bashir's power base.
The countries can resume oil production, but South Sudan will keep looking for other export partners.