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- Monday 22 August 2011
By Philip Thon Aleu
August 21, 2011 (BOR) – Trade between Bor and Panyagor counties of Jonglei state has been halted after heavy rains submerged shallow parts of the road rgus stopping the supply of badly needed food items. Car sinks (...)
- Monday 30 January 2012
January 29, 2012 (JUBA) - At least 76 people, most of whom are the elderly, women and children, have been killed in South Sudan’s Warrap State, according to the speaker of the state. Several others are reported to have sustained (...)
- Wednesday 16 January 2013
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
January 15, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) - The Ethiopian Road and Transport Authority on Tuesday revealed that the construction of a highway linking Ethiopia with neighbouring Sudan has been completed and opened for (...)
- Thursday 6 October 2011
By Ngor Arol Garang
October 6, 2011 (JUBA) - South Sudan said Wednesday that the ongoing food crisis in the newly independent country could develop into a famine if no immediate remedies are taken.
Joseph Lual Acuil, South Sudan’s (...)
- Friday 11 May 2012
May 10, 2012 (JUBA) - Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni on Wednesday officially commissioned the long-awaited construction of the Gulu-Nimule highway, which will directly link Uganda to the Republic of South Sudan with a paved road (...)
- Saturday 9 March 2013
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
March 8, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) – Landlocked Ethiopia has signed agreements with Chinese and Indian companies to construct highways that will connect the Horn of Africa nation with neighbouring Sudan, South Sudan and (...)
- Monday 22 August 2011
By Richard Ruati
August 18, 2011 (JUBA) – The caretaker minister of Transport and Roads Anthony Lino Makana, officially inaugurated the Board of Directors of the newly established South Sudan Road Authority (SSRA) on Thursday in Juba. (...)
- Thursday 31 January 2013
January 30, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Police in the coastal town of Port Sudan used tear gas to disperse protests by angry commuters stranded due to lack of public transportation. File - Southern Sudanese men carry their belongings to buses (...)
- Saturday 6 August 2011
August 5, 2011 (BOR) – Travellers on the damaged Juba—Bor road are being asked to pay extra fees to be allowed to use paths through homes along the highway as the main road has become risky to drive on. A four wheel drive vehicle (...)
- Monday 4 March 2013
March 3, 2013 (JUBA) – A senior regional leader in Ethiopia has welcomed a proposed road project in South Sudan that would connect the two countries and promote trade between them.
Gambella region’s vice president in Ethiopia, Gatluak (...)
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