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China to fund universities project in South Sudan
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September 14, 2012, Friday
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SOUTH Sudan plans to build five new university campuses with US$2.5 billion in oil-backed loans from China, a minister said yesterday, to boost education in a country where just over a quarter of adults can read.
The African nation seceded from Sudan last year under a 2005 peace deal after decades of civil war that left South Sudan one of the world's least developed countries.
Despite netting billions of dollars in oil revenues between 2005 and 2011, the government has struggled to build up state institutions and provide basic services.
The country is now planning to move its five public universities to new, modern campuses with the Chinese loans backed by oil, Higher Education, Science and Technology Minister Peter Adwok Nyaba said.
The project was due to start this year and finish in 2017, but has been delayed since South Sudan closed off its oil output in January in a dispute with Khartoum over how much it should pay to export crude through pipelines in Sudanese territory.
Chinese companies had already been selected to build the campuses, Nyaba said, but added it was too early to give a new timeline for the project.
He said upgrading the universities to new campuses would help young South Sudanese learn the skills needed to develop a country with almost no industry outside oil.
The African nation seceded from Sudan last year under a 2005 peace deal after decades of civil war that left South Sudan one of the world's least developed countries.
Despite netting billions of dollars in oil revenues between 2005 and 2011, the government has struggled to build up state institutions and provide basic services.
The country is now planning to move its five public universities to new, modern campuses with the Chinese loans backed by oil, Higher Education, Science and Technology Minister Peter Adwok Nyaba said.
The project was due to start this year and finish in 2017, but has been delayed since South Sudan closed off its oil output in January in a dispute with Khartoum over how much it should pay to export crude through pipelines in Sudanese territory.
Chinese companies had already been selected to build the campuses, Nyaba said, but added it was too early to give a new timeline for the project.
He said upgrading the universities to new campuses would help young South Sudanese learn the skills needed to develop a country with almost no industry outside oil.
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