Upper Nile University reopens as Covid-19 lockdown ends The administration of the University of Upper Nile has announced that all the lectures which were disrupted during the month-long Covid-19 partial lockdown would resume today, Monday, April 19, 2021. The announcement was made a day after the South Sudan government lifted the national COVID-19 lockdown. Last Monday, the university's students held a peaceful demonstration demanding the reopening of the institute. Speaking to Radio Tamazuj, Prof. Satire Obore Otti, the University Students’ Affairs Dean, said all the students whose lectures were disrupted during the March 3 lockdown will get back to their classes on Monday.