GOSS [Government of South Sudan] Vice President Dr. Riek Machar says he has reached an agreement with the United Nations Mission in Sudan to reconstruct the road linking southern Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.- - -
Speaking in Nairobi on Friday, Dr. Machar said UNMIS will construct the road from Maridi in Western Equatoria state to Ri-kwamba on the border with the DRC.
MONUC, the UN mission to the DRC, has said it will also construct a road to the Sudanese border from the DRC side.
Dr. Machar said that apart from connecting Sudan’s UNMIS [UN Mission in Sudan] and the DRC’s MONUC by land, the road would facilitate transport and trade between Western Equatoria state and the DRC.
Dr. Riek Machar was in Nairobi to discuss a proposed peace agreement between Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army.
Machar met DRC President Joseph Kabila at the meeting in Nairobi to talk about co-coordinating UN forces in Uganda and the DRC.
The two discussed the possibility of stationing some members of the Cessation of Hostilities Monitoring Team (CHMT) with UN MONUC forces inside the DRC to monitor the movement and activities of the LRA.
CHMT is composed of senior army officers from Kenya, South Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania, the DRC, Uganda, southern Sudan and the LRA.
The team was established in Juba [South Sudan] to monitor the ceasefire agreement signed two years ago between the Uganda government and the LRA.
Cross posted today at Sudan Watch.
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