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1. South Sudan: The Road to Development (video)

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   13 April 2012 World Bank - 9 April 2012 Roughly the size of France, the landlocked country of South Sudan only has about 4,000 km of all weather roads which are classified as international and interstate roads. Watch this video to find out more about South Sudan's development needs, including building much needed roads and infrastructure. Watch video as part of ICA's transport infrastructure playlist . Categories: Transport…

2. 75 million USD from WB for South Sudan

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   21 June 2011 The World Bank is to grant 75 million dollars to South Sudan to contribute to the financing of infrastructure, health and employment projects, reports a press release from the institution issued on June 20. This financing is destined for the South Sudan Transition Trust Fund (SSTTF). The Bank wants "to provide early assistance to South Sudan, given the urgency of the challenges faced…

3. Kenya Shippers Say South Sudan Trade Increases Border Congestion

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   27 March 2012 Bloomberg - March 26, 2012 Kenya and Uganda’s government must upgrade infrastructure at the town Malaba on their mutual border to cater for increased traffic from South Sudan, the Kenya Shippers Council said. South Sudanese trade via Kenya’s port of Mombasa surged 87 percent last year to 417,033 metric tons, Kenya Ports Authority statistics show. South Sudan increasingly favors using Malaba to transit the goods because of insecurity and damaged roads at Lokichogio on its border with Kenya, Humphrey Kisembe, an economist at the council, said in an interview today in Mombasa. “The road…

4. The future of South Sudan

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   28 February 2012 Aljazeera.com - 25 February 2012 When South Sudan seceded in July 2011, the world knew that they would be taking the vast majority of the Sudan's oil wealth with them. A new country with dismal infrastructure but vast oil reserves, hopes were high that despite years of conflict, South Sudan could use its oil wealth to build itself up. But what good is all that oil in a country that cannot get it safely and reliably to market? This question is especially pressing due to the fact that domestic crude refining capabilities are non-existent and the only immediately available partners…

5. South Sudan to Get Aid From China; No Oil Deal

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   26 April 2012 New York Times - 25 April 2012 BEIJING — China has welcomed the president of South Sudan and agreed to provide bank loans and humanitarian aid, but it has stopped short of moving forward on an oil pipeline, a sign of the delicate position Beijing finds itself in as the biggest energy investor in both the new nation of South Sudan and its bitter foe, Sudan. As the two new nations continued to edge toward outright war this week and Salva Kiir, the president of South Sudan, cut short his trip to China, the government here urged both sides to use international mediation. Before oil-rich…

6. IFC backs South Sudan’s non-oil revenue plans

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   17 February 2012 Sudan Tribune |February 16, 2012 (JUBA) — Jean Philippe Prosper, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) director for Eastern and Southern Africa has said South Sudan needs a…

7. AfDB grant to help improve South Sudan and Ethiopia water facility

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   24 May 2012 The African Water Facility will provide a €2 million (£1.6 million) grant to help provide multi-purpose water resource projects in South Sudan and Ethiopia. That is after the African…

8. South Sudan 'requires new road infrastructure'

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   17 August 2010 Road improvements are being made in south Sudan, although more new links are required for the development to continue. This is according to Antony Makana, minister for roads and transport, who was quoted by Reuters commenting on the region's existing infrastructure. "To connect all major towns in southern Sudan we need 13,000 km of roads ... we need five to six billion dollars…

9. Lamu abuzz with construction as South Sudan seeks new pipeline

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   11 February 2012 The East African | February 11, 2012 A high level delegation from South Sudan has been in Kenya through the week to initiate negotiations with over rights of passage for the 2,000 kilometre crude oil pipeline the country has decided to build to connect its oil fields to the Kenyan coastal town of Lamu. Initially, Juba said it would be building the pipeline on its own at an estimated…

10. AfDB to Cooperate with South Sudan in Water Sector

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    in South Sudan. The USD 5 .4 million grant, extended from the Fragile States Facility, will benefit some 170,000 people living in those 11 towns. The low levels of access to safe and potable water…