East African Borders To South Sudan Reopen External borders linking the East African countries’ to South Sudan have finally reopened, seeing movement of travellers alongside goods and other services, announced the official Eastern Equatoria state government spokesperson Clement Laku Chichim. 20 December 2013
*By Peter Lokale Nakimangole* *TORIT, 20 December 2013 [Gurtong] – *The two main peripheral entry border points into the world newest nation’s South Sudan from East African Countries notably South Sudan’s Nadapal- Kenya Lokichoggio, and South Sudan’s Nimule- Uganda’s Bibia, had recently been closed. As deadly conflicts in the prone South Sudan’s Juba sunk down than borders with Kenya and Uganda have now finally reopened and citizens from all these countries together goods have started moving in and out with businesses have continued booming in towns of Eastern Equatoria as usual. The leader Laku has encouraged transporters travelling to various destinations along major routes. The state government denied media reports that there were clashes happening in the territory. Speaking to the press in Torit on Thursday, Hon. Laku disapproved the allegation of the clashes as pronounced by some media that deadly incident happened in the state claiming several lives. He said his government was very disappointed with the false reports but maintains that the state remains very peaceful since the incident that took place in Juba and there is nothing reported of any kind across the state counties. “Our state is very peaceful right from the time when the Juba crisis took place. In EES, there is nothing reported of such any kind in the entire state even in the counties. Work or activities in the state continue as usual and all residents have continued to enjoy services as normal, business is booming in the state, with a huge population noticed doing shopping in preparation of the approaching Christmas,” Laku said. While strongly dismissing that it was Eastern Equatoria, the leader clarified that the incident took place yesterday in Central Equatoria state’s Lirya area where confusion rose among some SPLA soldiers leading to death of three but later the situation was brought under control. Posted in: Home<http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/CategoryView/mid/519/categoryId/1/Home.aspx>, Business<http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/CategoryView/mid/519/categoryId/2/Business.aspx>, Foreign Relations<http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/CategoryView/mid/519/categoryId/5/Foreign-Relations.aspx>, Governance<http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/CategoryView/mid/519/categoryId/6/Governance.aspx> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14oqaQykCXc_T_%2BYqr0M7NETaS64L3Wu0ffHiVtCkGmwYdQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
