Zambian company seeking investment opportunity in South Sudan JUBA, 23 February 2012 (NASS) – A Zambian engineering company known as Ng’andu Consulting’ is seeking big investment opportunities in the Republic of South Sudan, the company’s managing director for its Rwandan franchise, Mr. Watson Ng’ambi revealed today during a meeting with the minister for Information and Broadcasting, Hon Dr Barnaba Marial Benjamin.
Mr Ng’ambi said company is one of the biggest private companies in Zambia with branches in Rwanda and will soon establish in South Sudan. He said the company has a remarkable history in the infrastructural development in several countries in Africa. He said they are well known for roads and bridges constructions, real estate buildings and sport stadia. Dr Marial said South Sudan would express great interest in real estates and bridges adding that the old ones were destroyed by the protracted civil war. He also reiterated that South Sudanese wants genuine investors. He also said that South Sudan appreciates the support of Zambians during the struggle. Reported by Martin Jada Gabriel, News Agency of South Sudan (NASS) Health deputy minister meets Kenyan delegation JUBA, 23 February 2012 - The national deputy minister for Health Hon Dr Yatta Lori Lugor yesterday at the Ministry of Health headquarters in Juba met a Kenyan delegation headed by assistant minister for Public Service Hon Aden Sugow. Shortly after the meeting Dr Lugor told the press that the Kenyan delegation came to follow up the work of professional health personnel Kenya had sent to assist in different institutions especially in hospitals in South Sudan. He explained that the government of Kenya had sent a total of eighty (80) different health professionals such as doctors, specialists, nurses, surgical officers, and midwives to South Sudan last year. He reported that these professionals were distributed to the various states of South Sudan. He expressed appreciation of the initiative and added that Kenya has been assisting South Sudan for long. He explained that even during the war Kenya hosted South Sudanese refuges and also assisted in various training diverse cadres of civil servants. He also recounted how Kenya supported the formulation, signing and implementation of the CPA. He explained that the fact that South Sudan was at war for a long time deprived it of human capital. He appealed for the expansion of the support programme saying that the two years currently stipulated for it is inadequate given the gravity of the human resource deficiency. He reported that the Kenyan professionals together with those from IGAD countries such as Ethiopia and Uganda, are doing a good job. On his part Hon Sugow said he is pleased to hear the report on the good work the professionals sent to Juba about eight months ago have been doing. He said that Kenya will continue to support South Sudan such bilateral and multilateral international initiatives. In a related event Dr Lugor met the acting country director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Mr Christi Murray at the Ministry of Health in Juba. After the meeting Dr Lugor told the press that they came to congratulate him on his appointment. He also added that they discussed the role of the CDC disease management in South Sudan. He said they also discussed issue of technical health personnel who will be sent by the CDC from the USA to South Sudan to support the country in various health issues. Reported by Lindri Godfrey Alex -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob?hl=en.
