Work has begun on repairing a major road linking the capital Juba to communities living in the north of the city by Bangladeshi engineers serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan. The maintenance operation will cover 18 kilometres of road and is expected to be completed in six weeks' time, reports UNB. The state of roads across South Sudan is causing significant problems for local communities and traders as well as the UN peacekeeping mission with war and weather devastating key infrastructure such as bridges and culverts and turning the surfaces into mud. Bangladeshi project officer Major Kamrul Hasan said the road maintenance will improve the situation for travellers as well as enable the engineering contingent to more easily access a gravel collection site.

"One of the major setbacks that is affecting our activities here is bad weather, there have been very heavy rain falls, which obstructed the progress of our work,"