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[image: email] Email<http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?iframe&page=enviar_email_articulo&id_article=49007> [image: print] Print<http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?iframe&page=imprimable&id_article=49007> [image: pdf]Save<http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=spipdf&spipdf=spipdf_article&id_article=49007&nom_fichier=article_49007> [image: separation] [image: increase] <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article49007#> [image: decrease] <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article49007#> [image: separation] [image: separation] ------------------------------ November 29, 2013 (WASHINGTON) - The British ambassador to Jordan Peter Millett gave a very poor rating of Sudan’s main international airport and described it as the "worst" in the world. On his Twitter account, Millett asked his followers to give feedback on which airport they believe gave them the worst experience and started with himself. "Which is your worst airport in the world? For me it’s Khartoum Last week it was hot, dirty and devoid of any information or welcome," the UK envoy in Amman tweeted. He gave no further details as to why he was there. Some followers responded by picking Riyadh airport in Saudi Arabia and Dakar in Senegal. Mathew Russell who reports from the United Nations on Innercitypress.com described the tweet as "some classic UK diplomacy". Last July, the Sudanese government today signed a $700 million contract to construct a new international airport in Khartoum. The new airport will be built at an area of 103 million square meters, officials said. The project, which will be funded through a preferential loan from China, will accommodate 80 commercial planes every hour and 6.8 million passengers per year. This comes at a time when several local and foreign airlines have decided to stop operating in the country as they deemed it unprofitable because of low demand and foreign currency shortage that hit the country since the independence of South Sudan in July 2011 . (ST) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14op%3DxUKRRAbdgxWXRFBLYbWmB3hd86knJXP_XAO19Tg34A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
