South Sudan is moving ahead with plans for a 240-mile canal to divert water from the White Nile and send it to Egypt. But critics warn the megaproject would desiccate the world’s second-largest wetland, impacting its rich wildlife and the rains on which the region depends.
South Sudan is moving ahead with plans for a 240-mile canal to divert water from the White Nile and send it to Egypt. But critics warn the megaproject would desiccate the world’s second largest wetland, impacting its rich wildlife and the rains on which the region depends.
INTERVIEW: ‘We do not support Kiir, we support the people’s demands’-JCE
File photo: Joshua Dau (centre), a leading member of the Jieng Council of Elders during a meeting with Equatoria and Nuer elders in Juba in November 2016
The Jieng Council of Elders (JCE), a grouping of prominent Dinka politicians and elders from across South Sudan, last week released a statement that drew mixed reactions by inter alia disparaging the 2018 Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (R-ARCSS) as being worse than the botched 2015 agreement, and demanding that the period of the peace agreement and subsequent implementation be cut short and elections called early.