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Uganda Assists South Sudan by Boosting Literacy and Education
19 October 2011 (KAMPALA) – Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni says his country will send teachers to South Sudan as an effort to help the new nation build its human capacity and recover from decades of conflict that have badly affected literacy and the education system.
Speaking at the opening of a leaders retreat for his ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) on Monday in the town of Kyanykwanzi, president Museveni said this will aid job creation for his citizens.
South Sudan’s independence and its chronic underdevelopment have provided a potential job market for East African countries. Many East Africans have flocked to the world’s newest nation, in some cases taking jobs in private and public sector away from graduates from South Sudan.
“Our brothers and sisters in Southern Sudan have just got their freedom from the Arab colonialism. They are building their educational system. Our people [teachers], after consulting the government of Southern Sudan, could go there and make their contribut[ion],” Museveni said in a speech that took him nearly two hours to deliver.
In a referendum in January, the south Sudanese population overwhelmingly voted for independence as part of a peace deal that ended decades of north-south conflict. South Sudan took up arms against Khartoum due to Arabisation, economic and political marginalisation, and the introduction of the Islamic Shari’a law.
The south Sudanese, who generally have a more African identity than north Sudan, practice Africa beliefs and Christianity, although a minority are Muslim. Before Sudan was eventually granted independence as one country in 1956, the British colonial power considered merging South Sudan into British East Africa.
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