Africa-Press – South-Sudan. South Sudan government through the Directorate of Nationality,Passport and Immigration with Ethiopian Embassy to are gearing up to open theborder between Juba and Addis Ababa to boost trade among the two countries.
This was revealed yesterday in a join meeting between Director-General Lt. Gen. Atem Marol Biar and Ethiopian Envoy to South Sudan, Nebil Mahdi Abdullahi.
Speaking to journalists, Lt. Gen. Atem said that they hadalready opened the border in Pagak and they had a plan to open two other borderpoints soon. “With my Ethiopian counterpart we have opened Pagak and are planning to open two other boarder points,
We want our people from the two countries to benefit fromthis movement and to cooperate together in all areas,” he added. He also added that the registration they were doing for foreignersis to help them collect the data, organize and guide them.
Atem further explained that with recording they were nowable to identify the areas and type of businesses foreigners were involved in. “We do this because if there is a criminal activities wecan identify the people that is the main reason we are doing this registration,”he explained.
“With registration we can now identify most of the alienswe know now the areas Ugandan are staying in, the business Ethiopian are doing,and Somalis, among others” he added.
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