Egyptian Alexandria University to open branch in S. Sudan’s Juba
By Isaac Vuni
May 30, 2007 (JUBA) — The Egyptian University of Alexandria will open in the capital of southern Sudan starting from the next academic year, a lawmaker said here today.
The Chairman of Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly standing specialized committee of Education, Research, Science and Technology, Nartisio Lokuke, said Wednesday, in a press briefing in his office that, a branch of Egyptian Alexandria University would be launch while 300 southern Sudanese students would be admitted in Egyptian Universities during the coming academic year.
Loluke said Egyptian Alexandria University administration has accepted to establish in the coming academic year its branch in Juba.
He further said the admission is in line with national policy and identify capacity gaps in medicine, engineering, and technical education among others.
During a visit to Egypt, he met with the minister of Egyptian Higher education and the under secretary of education in present of SPLM representative in Egypt, Sebit Tongun Farjala.
Loluke said he met with 30 members of southern Sudanese teacher union in Egypt including over 1000 southerners who are willing to return home and participate in the reconstruction and building of their mother land but that they are constrained with financial difficulty for returning home.
He appealed to UNHCR and government of national unity together with GoSS to support the Sudanese in Egypt to return home and participate in national population census scheduled to be conducted in November this year.
MP Martin Milla also said that Egyptian government has accepted to expand Nimule hospital and provide it with two ambulances and at the same time to construct health centers in all the ten states of southern Sudan besides building university.
The Lawmaker further added together with Lt General Joseph Lagu and MP Patrick Bafura Paul they met the Egyptian Ambassador on March 18th 2006 and that Egyptian authorities wanted an acceptance letter from Magwi county authority to enable them come and extend the hospital they have donated to Joseph Lagu in 1972, following Addis Ababa accord.
“This is a great achievement for southern Sudanese in general and the mediators of the project” remark MPs Nartisio Loluke and Martin Milla.
Milla further disclosed that they are in touch with ministry of education for the final approval of the proposal. They indicated that negotiation of the project started in March 2006 through the Egyptian ambassador in Khartoum.
(ST)