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24.08.2005
Death of Sudanese Vice-President will not affect Railway Project
John Garang, Sudanese vice-president and president of the autonomous government of Southern Sudan, was killed in a helicopter crash at the end of July. Last week, his successor Salva Kiir, longtime chief of staff of Sudan’s People Liberation Army (SPLA), was inaugurated. The personnel changes at the top political level of Sudan are not expected to affect the start of the works on the railway project by the INGENO Group.
Longtime rebel leader John Garang had only been sworn in as Sudan’s
vice-president for three weeks when his helicopter crashed in darkness
and bad weather. Garang was a key figure in the peace process of
African’s biggest country. He was instrumental in bringing about the
peace agreement signed by representatives of the Christian South and
the Moslem North after a 20-year civil war. Unlike the
politically minded Garang, Salva Kiir, his successor, is known as the
military leader of the SPLA. Observers nevertheless see him as being
able to assume the role of government leader. At the burial service,
Kiir vowed he would continue Garang’s work, a pledge that was
subscribed to by several political representatives from Northern and
Southern Sudan. Therefore, no further unrest or disturbances are
expected. The situation in Juba, where riots had broken out after
Garang’s death, seems to have calmed down.
One of John Garang’s plans was the construction of an East African
railway that would connect Southern Sudan with transshipment centres in
Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya. The INGENO Group has already made a
feasibility study for the project and is now preparing the
implementation of the first planning stage. Salva Kiir knows of these
plans and supports them. He is advised on the subject by Dr. Costello
Garang Ring, Commissioner for international co-operation of Sudan’s
People Liberation Movement (SPLM) and adviser to Kiir. Currently
residing in Germany, Ring has established connections with Thormählen
Holding International and warmed the German engineers to the project. A
problematic point has always been the financing of the project, but
here too, a solution appears to be at hand. In the past weeks, both
governments were able to reach an agreement on the use of southern
Sudan’s rich oil reserves, so that the Southern Sudanese government can
in the future rely on fixed income sources.
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| Railway Project in East Africa |
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| With a feasibility study for the construction and operation of a railway link, the INGENO Group has laid the foundation for the implementation of a unique transport project in Sudan. |
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| Modernisation of signalling systems in Latvia |
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| INGENO Europrojekte GmbH strengthens its presence in the Eastern European region: Alcatel SEL AG Stuttgart has entrusted the company with the implementation planning for signalling systems and underground cabling on the railway link between the Belorussian border near Indra and Ventspils, Latvia’s major port. In addition, INGENO Europrojekte GmbH has been awarded the order to manage and monitor the surveying works, as part of the basic analysis, on the so-called east-west corridor. |
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