{"id":37,"date":"2026-06-18T07:25:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T05:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2026-06-22T14:13:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:13:01","slug":"president-kiir-gets-updates-on-major-road-projects-backs-new-policy-to-accelerate-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"President Kiir Gets Updates on Major Road Projects, Backs New Policy to Accelerate Construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1086\" src=\"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/18b6cd50-66ce-4c2c-a6a1-fe1b7951bbb4.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-178\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/18b6cd50-66ce-4c2c-a6a1-fe1b7951bbb4.webp 2048w, http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/18b6cd50-66ce-4c2c-a6a1-fe1b7951bbb4-300x159.webp 300w, http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/18b6cd50-66ce-4c2c-a6a1-fe1b7951bbb4-1024x543.webp 1024w, http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/18b6cd50-66ce-4c2c-a6a1-fe1b7951bbb4-768x407.webp 768w, http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/18b6cd50-66ce-4c2c-a6a1-fe1b7951bbb4-1536x815.webp 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Juba, May 21, 2026 &mdash; His Excellency President Salva Kiir Mayardit has backed a new policy proposal to accelerate road construction across South Sudan, following a briefing from Minister of Roads and Bridges Peter Lam Both on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Lam presented a proposal to establish an escrow account for oil revenues, a measure designed to improve transparency and attract international construction firms to competitively bid for road projects nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>The President responded positively and reaffirmed road connectivity as a key Government priority.<\/p>\n<p>Among the key updates, the Juba&ndash;Bahr el Ghazal Highway will see accelerated construction after the Government assigned an additional Chinese company, Jonshu International, to handle the Rumbek&ndash;Wau section, reducing construction time on one of the country&rsquo;s most critical transport corridors.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting also covered progress on the Nadapal&ndash;Boma&ndash;Raad&ndash;Ethiopia Highway, expected to be funded by the African Development Bank, and the Juba&ndash;Torit&ndash;Nadapal Highway, currently under World Bank consideration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juba, May 21, 2026 &mdash; His Excellency President Salva Kiir Mayardit has backed a new policy proposal to accelerate road construction across South Sudan, following a briefing from Minister of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}