AGP Executive Report
Last update: 4 hours agoFood Security: A new analysis warns Middle East escalation could leave additional South Sudanese women and girls facing food insecurity equal to 14% of the country’s female population. Many employed women are already in vulnerable work. Oil Exports: PetroChina is exploring a 1,550-kilometre corridor through Ethiopia to Djibouti, with a proposed storage depot and refinery offering South Sudan a possible alternative export route. Telecommunications: The communications regulator has asked the central bank to consider measures to ease foreign-exchange volatility, rising costs and mobile-money liquidity pressures affecting operators and consumers. Local Enterprise: In Rajaf, farmer John Ladu has grown a $700 start-up into a 3.5-acre business employing 10 people, highlighting agriculture’s potential to create jobs and reduce food imports. Trade: A Chinese textile supplier says payment-transfer difficulties prevent direct sales to South Sudan, leaving regional traders in Kenya and Uganda to bring its fabrics into the market.
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