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This comes after the deputy minister of foreign affairs said in an interview with The National Newspaper that the government in Juba is finalizing plans to build dams purposely for generation of electricity and other benefits associated with dams.
“This is a strategic plan of the country, the government has a plan to build a dam for the generation of electricity and power because you can’t have a country without industrialization,” said Deng Dau Deng, according to The National Newspaper.
However, the spokesman of the Sudanese ministry of irrigation Osama Abu Shanab expressed shock when approached with the South Sudanese plan saying they haven’t been informed by the South Sudanese of any plan for them to build dam, claiming any step to do so needs prior approval from Cairo and Khartoum.
“This is the first time I hear of it. I have received no information on plans to build dams in South Sudan,” he said from Khartoum.
“They would have notified us if they had such plans. South Sudan will not implement plans to build dams on the White Nile without first notifying us and the Egyptians,” he added.
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This people the know why our country was left behind without electricity and other developmental schemes because their thought was that,if the allowed us to build our own dam to generate our hydroelectric power it will reduces their economic plan which the alway force on us. my conculsion on that as a concern citizen of South Sudan i wouldn,t accept to be threat again like before, unless my g,vt is not serious to implement that planning of dam construction in the Country.
Is South Sudan governed by Sudan and Egypt?
Dear brothers, help me I failed to understand. Is South Sudan a women who married to two men?
Why Sudan is claiming South Sudan to shake prior approval from them?
Sudan and Egypt have tried their best to stop Ethiopia from building the GERD. They think they are the only country have a right to use Nile while other countries which contributes large share of the water don’t have a slightest right to use. That time has already passed. Every nation has a right to use equitably with out any consultation of Sudan and Egypt. Brother and sisters from S.Sudan don’t worry we Ethiopian are with you all the way up to finish.
“A senior official of the Sudanese irrigation ministry has claimed that South Sudan does not have the right to build dams along the river Nile without prior approvals from Sudanese and the Egyptian government”
Oh really?!!. Good luck with that fellows.