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Juba to cut oil output to 100,000 barrels a day

South Sudan will cut oil output to 100,000 barrels a day over the weekend as it moves toward a full shutdown, its foreign ministry said on Friday, in a dispute with Sudan over rebels that operate across their shared border.

Sudan, from which the South seceded in 2011, said a month ago it would close two cross-border oil pipelines within two months and insisted that oil production by shut by Aug. 7 unless South Sudan gave up support for the rebels. Juba denies providing such support.

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