By William Madouk<\/p>\n
Government of South Sudan and Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia struck a deal on Thursday to construct a highway linking the two sisterly countries. <\/strong><\/p>\n The agreement was signed by the Minister of Finance, Dier Tong Ngor and Ethiopia\u2019s state Finance minister Eyob Tekalign on behalf of their governments.<\/p>\n A Statement on Presidential Facebook page seen by this outlet, quoted President Salva Kiir Mayardit saying the trans-border road would strengthen ties, people\u2019s relations and boost economy.<\/p>\n \u201cThe cross-border highway project would strengthen economic ties as well as enhance the free movement of people and goods in the Horn of Africa,\u201d Kiir said.<\/p>\n For his part, the South Sudan minister of finance, Dier Tong Ngor emphasized that when the road is completed it could reduce prices across the East Africa region.<\/p>\n “When the road is completed, it will reduce the cost of doing business in the region,\u201d Ngor noted.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Ethiopia’s state Finance Minister Eyob Tekalign described the project as a \u2018significant\u2019 and \u2018historic\u2019 development. He added the project would bring people of the two countries together.<\/p>\n Two days ago, South Sudan minister of transport, Madut Biar Yel said they have developed an ambitious plan for South Sudan to be a land-linking country in the region rather than being landlock.<\/p>\n \u201cSoon, we are going to connect Nadapal to Juba, and on Kenya to be followed by aerial part connectivity which also is part of LAPSSET project,\u201d Yel said during the opening of LAPSSET 3rd <\/sup>ministerial meeting in Juba.<\/p>\n He added that there are two roads in Ethiopia that could be linked to South Sudan \u2013 one is to connect Boma via Bor through Kapoeta and that of Gambella.<\/p>\n \u201cIn the border of Ethiopia, we have two main road connections that is Gambella, Paloch, Fagak, Malakal and it will not end in Malakal, it will cross up to Unity State \u2013 oil rich state so that members of LAPSSET benefit from resources,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n Lamu Port, South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport or LAPSSET is an ambitious infrastructure project in Eastern Africa, connecting Kenya, Ethiopia, and South Sudan.<\/p>\n It consists of seven key infrastructure projects, including a new 32-berth port at Lamu, interregional highways, crude oil pipelines, standard gauge railway lines, international airports, three resort cities, and a multipurpose high Grand falls dam.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By William Madouk Government of South Sudan and Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia struck a deal on Thursday to construct a highway linking the two sisterly countries. The agreement was signed by the Minister of Finance, Dier Tong Ngor and Ethiopia\u2019s state Finance minister Eyob Tekalign on behalf of their[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/wwww.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13914,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13912\/revisions\/13914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}