{"id":25245,"date":"2022-10-06T12:13:39","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T12:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/roads-minister-sorry-for-bad-roads"},"modified":"2022-10-06T12:45:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T12:45:59","slug":"roads-minister-sorry-for-bad-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/roads-minister-sorry-for-bad-roads","title":{"rendered":"Roads minister \u201csorry\u201d for bad roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>Mijak \u2013 who made the remarks during the launch of a needs assessment report by the Ministry of Roads and Bridges on Wednesday, said the inconvenience faced by road users is not intentional.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, we are aware of what is happening to road users and I must take the opportunity on behalf of the Ministry (of Roads and Bridges), it is my duty to give the apology for that inconvenience it is not intended, and the Ministry is trying its level best,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Mijak blamed the deteriorating roads network across the country on \u2018massive volumes of water coming from the Congo and Ethiopian highlands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a critical season for the Ministry of Roads (and Bridges) as we have been witnessing heavy rains and the country is located within a valley. So massive volumes of water come from the highlands of Congo and the same from the highlands of Ethiopia and the Great Lakes Region,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt affects the roads especial the gravel roads and even the asphalts as we have seen in May 2020 when the section of Juba \u2013Terekeka road was just washed away by heavy rains,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Corridor Transit and Transport Coordination Authority conducted a road assessment report in Juba on Wednesday to evaluate and improve transport infrastructures across the region.<\/p>\n<p>South Sudan remains one of the countries with the most underdeveloped road networks in the world, according to the World Bank.<\/p>\n<p>The international finance organization states that most interstate roads consist of badly or non-maintained dirt roads, with only 300km of sealed roads and one sealed international highway linking Juba to Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>This is despite the government\u2019s allocation of a huge volume of crude oil to Chinese companies to build roads in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\">South-Sudan<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. Mijak \u2013 who made the remarks during the launch of a needs assessment report by the Ministry of Roads and Bridges on Wednesday, said the inconvenience faced by road users is not intentional. \u201cYes, we are aware of what is happening to road users and I must take the opportunity on behalf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":25244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[234,265,233],"class_list":["post-25245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-south-sudan","tag-south-sudan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Roads minister \u201csorry\u201d for bad roads - South Sudan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mijak \u2013 who made the remarks during the launch of a needs assessment report by the Ministry of Roads and Bridges on Wedn ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/roads-minister-sorry-for-bad-roads\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Roads minister \u201csorry\u201d for bad roads\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mijak \u2013 who made the remarks during the launch of a needs assessment report by the Ministry of Roads and Bridges on Wedn ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/roads-minister-sorry-for-bad-roads\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Sudan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-10-06T12:13:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-10-06T12:45:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_29.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/roads-minister-sorry-for-bad-roads#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/roads-minister-sorry-for-bad-roads\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Roads minister \u201csorry\u201d for bad roads\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-10-06T12:13:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-10-06T12:45:59+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/roads-minister-sorry-for-bad-roads\"},\"wordCount\":309,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/roads-minister-sorry-for-bad-roads#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_29.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-South-Sudan\",\"South-Sudan\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/roads-minister-sorry-for-bad-roads#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/roads-minister-sorry-for-bad-roads\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/roads-minister-sorry-for-bad-roads\",\"name\":\"Roads minister \u201csorry\u201d for bad roads - 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