"South Sudan plans animal-shaped cities" by Bloomberg News | August 18, 2010
JUBA, Sudan — Southern Sudan officials are in talks with two companies about a $10.1 billion project to redesign the semiautonomous region’s cities into animal-shaped urban centers, the Housing Ministry said.
Southern Sudan’s capital, Juba, will take the shape of a rhinoceros, and the second-largest city, Wau, will be in the form of a giraffe, said Daniel Wani, undersecretary of the Housing and Physical Planning Ministry. Talks are taking place with Abu Malek Companies and Agencies Ltd., based in Juba, and UAS Canada Inc., based in Abbotsford, Canada, he said.
No AmeriKan firms?
“This is very innovative,’’ Wani said. “The advantage is that there will be uniformity of planning. It will be very easy for future generations to follow our thinking, what we wanted to put in place, because we are not planning for now, we plan for tomorrow.’’
Couldn't $10 billion dollars be better spent somewhere else -- like on starving people?
Southern Sudan’s economy is recovering from a 21-year civil war that ended in 2005 with a peace accord granting the southern region of Sudan semiautonomy. Voters will decide in a January referendum whether to secede and form an independent state.
In this case it is something the United States wants least of which because it is an arms-running hub for the region; however, I must remain true to my principles in that all people must be allowed to choose their own destiny.
Now when is Kashmir going to get a vote?
The project proposed by Abu Malek and UAS Canada, which may take more than 20 years to complete, has yet to be approved by Southern Sudan’s executive, known as the Council of Ministers, said the minister of Housing and Physical Planning, Jemma Nunu Kumba.
Sudan is sub-Saharan Africa’s third-biggest oil producer, pumping 480,000 barrels a day, according to theEver notice conflict always seems to be around the oil?
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