Word: jonglei
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...example, that when the Chevron Oil Co. discovered oil in the south, the government made plans to pipe it out of the territory rather than build a refinery on the spot, which would have generated jobs in the economically depressed region. In addition, some southerners fear that the Jonglei Canal, a huge project to divert water northward from the White Nile, will turn parts of the south into a desert...
...southern army units to the north. The troops mutinied, charging that the move violated the 1972 accord. In crushing that uprising the government killed at least 70 mutineers. But the unrest continued. On Nov. 15, southern rebels kidnaped eleven British, French and Pakistani workers from the oilfields and the Jonglei Canal...
...permanently clogged with reeds and papyrus and infested with 63 species of mosquito. From May to October, the White Nile floods and temporarily extends the swamp another 4,300 sq. mi. Says Daniel Yong, a member of the area's nomadic Dinka tribe and a Jonglei Canal project official: "In the rainy season there is water everywhere, but in the dry season you can die of thirst." The Sudd proved an obstacle to 19th century explorers, but today it is more of a hindrance to economic development. It can take a year for water entering the swamp to course...
...wide channel, nearly half of which is now excavated, CCI is using 20 bulldozers, five road graders, three cranes and five shovels. The star performer is clearly "Sarah," a West German-built excavator that was named after a Sudanese official's daughter. By the time the Jonglei Canal is finished, the bucket wheeler will have moved 3.5 billion cu. ft. of earth, enough to fill the Great Pyramid more than 38 times. Getting the eight-story-high, 2,300-ton excavator and its 1 million spare parts to Sudan, the largest nation in Africa and independent since...
...issues raised by the digging of the Jonglei Canal are so complex that many environmentalists caution against any predictions. Not so British Biologist Stephen Cobb, who headed one Jonglei survey team. "It won't be the disaster as first suspected," he says. "On balance, it is going to make life better for a lot of people." -ByAnastasia Toufexis. Reported byRobertC. Wurmstedt/Jonglei