South Sudan is optimistic that peace would be attained and look forward to push for the implementation of joint development projects with Ethiopia ranging from installing road networks to oil pipeline.
Once peace is restored and the recurring of rebellions acts by some groups come to an end, South Sudan would forge to bring the various agreements signed between the two friendly countries into reality told told The Ethiopian Herald, South Sudanese Ambassador to Ethiopia James Morgan.
For long despite the strong ties between the people of South Sudan and Ethiopia, both countries were disconnected due to lack of infrastructural facilities. But now that the security situation in the border starts to improve, the two countries should make use of the opportunity to realize joint projects, James adds.
For him, the most important step to boost integration is to link both countries with road. The majority of both people are cut out from we need to put our effort to secure the borders and open roads. Various agreements were signed for joint infrastructural facilities and projects that if implemented would further speed up the integration process.
The region is endowed with various precious resources but failed to tap them due to instability. Both Juba and Addis Ababa have also lots of resources that either of them do not. Accordingly, South Sudanese oil instead being exporting to other international market, it would be cost and time effective if it goes to Ethiopia by realizing refinery and pipelines. The same is true Ethiopia can also export the resources it has that Juba badly need, he adds
However the Ambassador says, security and peace is what should come first, hence both countries need to step up efforts to ensure the desperately sought stability in the borders and in South Sudan.
The relation between Ethiopia, South Sudan is historical. The people to people ties are inseparable. It is like one people living in two countries. And promoting infrastructural integration would be taking this into new heights, the Ambassador adds.
Newer articles:
- 24 MSF Facilities Damaged, Looted in South Sudan - 24/08/2017 09:55
- Church offers age-old sanctuary to South Sudan's dispossessed - 23/08/2017 23:45
- Child killed in South Sudan when plane strikes house - 23/08/2017 12:12
- Foreigner returns to testify in South Sudan hotel rampage - 23/08/2017 08:59
- South Sudan runs out of fuel - 23/08/2017 04:35
Older news items
- South Sudan plans on halting UN air operations - 21/08/2017 12:17
- South Sudan grounds U.N. planes in airport row - 21/08/2017 09:10
- Red Cross warns unpaid wages deepening S.Sudan crisis - 21/08/2017 08:06
- Aid workers face unique crisis in South Sudan war, says ICRC - 21/08/2017 04:26
- Ethiopia hosts over 380,000 S.Sudanese refugees: UN - 20/08/2017 03:53
Latest news items (all categories):
- UN experts say South Sudan is close to securing a $13 billion oil-backed loan from a UAE company - 18/05/2024 11:54
- DRC, South Sudan units top Equity’s earnings in first quarter - 18/05/2024 11:49
- Innuendos and tittle tattle of Kiir's regime - 18/05/2024 11:44
- South Sudan government, rebel groups sign pact to achieve lasting peace - 18/05/2024 09:58
- إلى متى ينظر الجميع إلى الفيل و يطعنون ظله..؟ - 15/05/2024 21:51
Random articles (all categories):
- 22 soldiers die in South Sudan-Sudan border battle - Albany Times Union - 18/04/2012 13:56
- Sudan edges back from oil showdown with South - 07/06/2013 19:00
- South Sudanese WAKE UP!!! - 22/08/2012 12:12
- Sudan-South Sudan border dispute rages on 10 years since war - 19/09/2022 02:19
- UN Accuses South Sudan Rebels of Targeted Ethnic Killings - 21/04/2014 17:40
Popular articles:
- Who is the darkest person in the world, according to Guinness World Record? - 25/10/2022 02:34 - Read 35621 times
- No oil in troubled waters - 25/03/2014 15:02 - Read 21876 times
- School exam results in South Sudan show decline - 01/04/2012 17:58 - Read 20769 times
- NDSU student from South Sudan receives scholarship - In-Forum - 29/09/2012 01:44 - Read 17455 times
- With prisons full, South Sudan to introduce mobile courts to clear backlog of cases - 11/10/2012 11:29 - Read 14237 times