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New highway to South Sudan breathes life to former refugee towns
A dual road in Lodwar town, Turkana County, on the Lodwar-Lodwar-Kakuma-Lokichogio-Nadapal road which is under construction on September 16, 2021. The road goes to South Sudan. PHOTO | JARED NYATAYA | NMG
For the more than three decades that the government of Sudan and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement Army (SPLMA) engaged in war, towns near the border of Kenya and South Sudan were thriving in an economy built on hosting refugees and their non-governmental organisation (NGO) benefactors.
Lokichoggio hosted United Nations (UN) in its Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS) programme, with over 40 NGOs operating there to provide humanitarian assistance in the war-torn and drought-ravaged regions in Sudan.
