Digital refugees or can South Sudan incubate itself into prosperity?
Sudanese refugees, who fled the violence in their country, wait to receive food supplies from a Turkish aid group (IHH) near the border between Sudan and Chad in Koufroun, Chad on May 7, 2023. PHOTO | REUTERS
On March 15, South Sudan’s Ministry of Health issued a public health advisory on the impact of heat waves on the human body after daily temperatures hit 45 degrees Celsius. Separately, the country’s telecommunication regulator announced a winning innovation that could temper the furnace in their motherland.
Ironically, the innovators live 390km south of the country’s capital, in the Rhino Camp refugee settlement of northern Uganda, having fled the South Sudan violence in 2016. But now their innovation – along with two others – is lined up for patenting as intellectual property of the country of their birth.
