{"id":24323,"date":"2011-02-01T18:40:55","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T18:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_in_southern_sudan_new_nation_begins_from_scratch\/"},"modified":"2011-02-01T18:40:55","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T18:40:55","slug":"npr_in_southern_sudan_new_nation_begins_from_scratch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24323","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) In Southern Sudan, New Nation Begins &#39;From Scratch&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Southern Sudan, because of the decades of war, has so little infrastructure,&#8221; explains Bill Hammink, who overseas USAID in Sudan. &#8220;They are really starting construction here, starting from scratch in many ways.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hammink says the new road will cut the costs of imports from Uganda, on which Southern Sudan depends, and boost trade. That&#8217;s critical for an economy facing high prices, high unemployment and almost complete dependency on oil.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the United States and other donors is to prevent the failure of another state in Africa.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/02\/01\/133374383\/in-southern-sudan-new-nation-begins-from-scratch\">Read or listen to it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Southern Sudan, because of the decades of war, has so little infrastructure,&#8221; explains Bill Hammink, who overseas USAID in Sudan. &#8220;They are really starting construction here, starting from scratch in many ways.&#8221; Hammink says the new road will cut the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24323\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,202,151,346],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-politics-in-general","category-sudan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}