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- Wednesday 30 January 2013
January 29, 2013 (NAIROBI) – A 960km stretch of road connecting South Sudan and neighbouring Kenya to help boost economic ties between the two countries is expected to cost an estimated $1.3 billion, World Bank officials say. A road (...)
- Wednesday 24 April 2013
April 23, 2013 (JUBA) - South Sudanese president Salva Kiir Mayardit said on Tuesday that the Chinese government has approved a major loan scheme to help his country improve infrastructure, adding that the agreement shows the level of (...)
- Wednesday 1 May 2013
May 1, 2013 (JUBA) - South Sudan’s government has prioritized construction of several economic and security roads and bridges in the country, which eight years after a peace deal ended decades of civil and almost two years after (...)
- 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 (...)
- Thursday 24 January 2013
January 23, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese minister of transportation and roads has tackled the issue of security with Chinese companies and measures needed to protect their workers in the troubled region of Darfur.
Four Chinese (...)
- Tuesday 15 January 2013
January 14, 2013 (JUBA) – A delegation of US Senators have urged President Salva Kiir Mayardit of South Sudan to alternatively begin to truck his country’s oil to the international market through Ethiopia instead of waiting for Khartoum (...)
- 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 (...)
- Saturday 13 October 2012
October 12, 2012 (RUMBEK) - Rumbek Airport is being upgraded so it can accommodate international flights in time for South Sudan’s second independence anniversary in 2013, according to Lakes State’s Minister for Physical Infrastructure (...)
- 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 (...)
- Friday 8 February 2013
February 7, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Qatar will fund the construction of a road connecting Sudan and landlocked neighbouring Chad, president Omer Al-Bashir announced following a meeting with his Chadian counterpart Idris Deby in Khartoum on (...)
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OIL: is it a curse or a blessing in South Sudan? 2013-05-17 06:04:54 By Jacob K. Lupai May 16, 2013 - In the late 70s when for the first time oil was discovered in Southern Sudan there was euphoria that poverty would be a thing of the past, replaced by a high (...)
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