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Museveni to persuade South Sudan to join Uganda-CAR road project

Author: Chany Ninrew | Published: October 11, 2024

President Kiir and President Museveni of Uganda shake hands during a sideline meeting in Kampala. (-)

Uganda and Central African Republic have agreed to build a road connecting the two countries in a bid to boost trade as President Yoweri Museveni said he will persuade South Sudan to build a road from Yei to the highway.

CAR President Faustin-Archange Touadéra held talks with Museveni in Kampala on the prospect of connecting the one mile distance between the two landlocked nations by road to facilitate multilateral trade and influence regional economic growth.

“Together with CAR, we want to persuade the governments of Congo and South Sudan that we work on the road from Arua (northern Uganda) to Isiro (Congo) and then to Obbo (CAR),” Museveni said, as reported by Daily Monitor.

“Then we need to persuade South Sudan for a road through Yei-Maridi and Yambio upto CAR and beyond.”

Work on the Juba-Lainya-Yei-Morobo-Kaya highway better known as Aggrey Jaden Road, which is supposed to connect South Sudan to the neighboring Uganda and DRC, has stalled over the years despite the government’s allocation of a huge volume of crude oil for road initiatives linking the national capital with the states.

South Sudan remains one of the countries with the most underdeveloped road networks in the world, according to the World Bank.

The world finance organization states that most interstate roads consist of badly or non-maintained dirt roads, with only 300km of sealed roads and one sealed international highway linking Juba to Uganda.

 

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