South Korean army to build roads in Jonglei’s capital Bor
July 18, 2013 (BOR) – A South Korean engineering unit helping keep peace in South Sudan’s Jonglei have started constructing roads in the state’s capital, Bor town.
A UN convoy, of almost 10 tippers and several excavators were seen on Thursday morning leaving for Central Equatoria state’s Terekeka county to bring materials for road construction in the town.
Jonglei governor Kuol Manyang said that Central Equatoria has granted the state 2,000 trips of red-coloured coarse, stony sand [murram] to be used in the construction of roads.
Kuol told media that the Korean army engineering contingency for the United Nations peacekeeping force in Bor would grade roads around the capital in order to improve existing road conditions.
“The government of Central Equatoria has already approved about 2,000 trucks load of murram from Magalla [and] the commissioner of Terkaka county has [for] two days commissioned to do the work,” said the Jonglei governor, who recently returned from Juba.
He said that transportation will take only three days, adding that the work will commence from the airstrip and continue on roads inside Bor town.
Road conditions remain one of the most challenging and pressing issues in Jonglei, due largely to the fact that the state has no quality soil for upgrading roads.
During the rainy season, only the Juba-Bor road is functional, with all other roads connecting the various counties with state headquarters inaccessible during this period.
(ST)