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South Sudan allows Sudan to continue managing its airspace

Xinhua, August 14, 2016 Adjust font size:

South Sudan has decided to allow neighbouring Sudan to continue managing its airspace as the war-torn country lacks the capacity of managing it.

"We have not been able to set up the body (civil aviation authority) all this time to manage our airspace because of internal conflict," South Sudan's Information Minister Michael Makuei announced this on Friday evening.

"So now we have formalized and agreed that Sudan government will continue to manage South Sudan airspace and only update us on what is happening within our territory," Makuei told journalists.

South Sudan seceded from Sudan in 2011 through a referendum after more than two decades of civil war. Since independence, South Sudan's airspace has been under full control of Sudan's government.

Some analysts have however questioned the Cabinet decision to allow the airspace to be managed by a former foe. Endit