Building Up Research in South Sudan

The world’s newest country has a long road ahead toward the recovery of its scientific research.

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With the official split of the country of Sudan on Saturday, July 9th, a lot is at stake for the newly formed South Sudan as it, among other things, tries to rebuild the research infrastructure ravaged by a two-decade-long civil war. Prior to the split, the majority of Sudan’s peer-reviewed papers came out of the University of Khartoum, which is in the current capital of the northern republic. Moreover, the bloody conflict drove several universities that were originally based in the south to the north in an attempt to flee the violence.

While South Sudan is currently working to re-open some of these institutions, the government has been unable to raise the money needed to build crucial infrastructure such as hostels, laboratories and lecture halls ...

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