South Sudan: Education Key to Progress in South Sudan

22 September 2014

Bor — Quality education for all in South Sudan would help remedy the country's political and economical crisis, as well as the pervasive xenophobia that continues to exists along tribal lines, said a well-known academic.

Professor Julia Aker Duany, the vice-chancellor of Jonglei state's Dr John Garang Memorial University of Science and Technology, made the comments at a public address at the reopening of the university, saying an "academic AK-47" was the key to the success of the young nation.

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