June 25, 2004

3 Sudanese Colleges to Return Home

By WACHIRA KIGOTHO

The Sudanese government has agreed to move three public universities from Khartoum, the capital, to the southern part of the country, which is controlled by the rebels of the Sudan People's Liberation Army. The agreement is part of a recent peace accord that is designed to end two decades of civil war.

The University of Juba, Upper Nile University, and Bahr el Ghazal University were relocated to Khartoum, in north-central Sudan, at the height of the war. The date of their return to the