Southern Sudan moots 700-megawatts hydroelectric dam

NAIROBI, Kenya, May 13, 2005 (PANA) — The Vice-Chairman of the Sudan Peoples
Liberation Movement (SPLM), Dr Riek Machar has invited investors
to partner with the Sudanese authorities in building of a 700-
megawatt power project along the River Nile.

Machar said the Southern Sudan region, with over seven million
population, requires hydroelectric power and is capable of
supplying African countries with affordable energy while its plan
to build a rail project would boost connectivity.

“We are processing oil, we want to make cheap oil for Kenya,
Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, if
we can make electricity cheap. we would lower the cost of energy
in this region,” Machar told investors here Thursday at a two-day
reconstruction workshop for war-ravaged South Sudan.