SOUTH SUDAN UNIVERSITIES SEEKING WAYS TO REOPEN IN SEPTEMBER, BUT NEED GOVERNMENT APPROVAL AND GUIDANCE
August 2nd, 2020
South Sudan is struggling to deliver a plan to reopen its higher education sector to face-to-face learning in September, which is attempting to shrug off Covid-19, just as the country is emerging from civil war. The latest push follows an abortive early attempt to pull South Sudan’s universities out of lockdown in May and comes as Gabriel Changson Chang as the new minister of higher education, science and technology - the third minister to hold that office since January 2020. Changson has held various ministerial positions it the strife-torn country since ...
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