{"id":1217549,"date":"2022-10-06T17:17:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T17:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/06\/sudan-roads-minister-apologises-for-bad-roads\/"},"modified":"2022-10-06T17:17:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T17:17:21","slug":"sudan-roads-minister-apologises-for-bad-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/06\/sudan-roads-minister-apologises-for-bad-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Roads Minister apologises for bad roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div wp_automatic_readability=\"35\">\n<p><figure><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\nRoad Minister sorry for \u2018worst\u2019 roads in region<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>South Sudan\u2019s roads minister has apologised to the public for the bad condition of roads in the country as a study found that they were the worst in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Roads worsened following recent torrential rains that made them impassable because of flooding and mud.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-85.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2169452\" width=\"601\" height=\"406\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>More than 1,500 lorries carrying food supplies have been stranded for weeks in Western Equatorial state.<\/p>\n<p>Roads Minister Simon Mijok Mijak said engineers were working on the roads and the lorries would be able to move in a few days.<\/p>\n<p>South Sudan\u2019s roads have been described as \u201cthe worst\u201d in the region, in a report released by an east African body, the Northern Corridor Transit and Transport Co-ordination Authority (NCTTCA).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Some-roads-between-the-capital-Juba-and-Western-Equatoria-state-are-impassable.jpg\" alt=\"Road Minister sorry for 'worst' roads in region\" class=\"wp-image-10032183323\" title=\"Road Minister sorry for 'worst' roads in region\"\/><figcaption>Some roads between the capital Juba and Western Equatoria state are impassable<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe roads in South Sudan are at the lowest category, worst, while you get Rwanda and Kenya being from good to very good,\u201d said NCTTCA executive secretary Omae Nyarandi.<\/p>\n<p>He added that South Sudan needed to focus more on policy and planning, and maintenance in order to improve its road network.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"ym2uc4hXjfI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ECG Vending Challenges: Slow network system, long queues persist at district offices (5-10-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ym2uc4hXjfI?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Road Minister sorry for \u2018worst\u2019 roads in region South Sudan\u2019s roads minister has apologised to the public for the bad condition of roads in the country as a study found that they were the worst in the region. Roads worsened following recent torrential rains that made them impassable because of flooding and mud. More than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1217551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1217549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}