Juba–Rumbek highway, kilometres opened to traffic
Kilometres of the Juba–Rumbek highway reported open to traffic, against a stated completion percentage.
Unit: km · Measurement: LENGTH · Scope: CORRIDOR · Comparability group: HIGHWAY_JUBA_RUMBEK_KM_OPENED_TO_TRAFFIC
What this is not
Almost every serious error in operational data is a category error rather than an arithmetic one. These are the things this indicator shares a unit with and must never be combined with.
- Kilometres paved to full specification, which a second source puts materially lower on a later date.
- Delivery. A road open to traffic may be open on an interim surface.
How current a reading has to be
Current within 90 days, usable within 270 days, measured against the 2026-09-23 build rather than against the time you read this page. A static deployment cannot re-age itself, so the build date is the honest anchor.
Freight contracts, warehouse leases, wage scales and fixed statutory fees are negotiated on quarterly or annual cycles. Treating a two-month-old lease rate as out of date would discard a figure that is still exactly what a tenant would pay.
Readings held (1)
- 260 km — observed 2026-08-15, 39 days before the 2026-09-23 build
Source: Ministry of Roads and Bridges Press Release · Central Equatoria / Lakes State (named only — no coordinate held) · Current · DISPUTED · evidence ev-00487
As the source states it: “260 km opened / 68% completed”
Another source makes an incompatible claim about this subject. Both positions are published and neither is preferred.
What SSIP says about it
- Juba–Rumbek highway, kilometres opened to traffic: 260 km, recorded 2026-08-15 by Ministry of Roads and Bridges Press Release. Inside this indicator's 90-day currency window as of 2026-09-23.
Rule: Take the most recent dated observation bound to this indicator and classify its age against the indicator's own freshness policy (90 days current, 270 days usable — Freight contracts, warehouse leases, wage scales and fixed statutory fees are negotiated on quarterly or annual cycles. Treating a two-month-old lease rate as out of date would discard a figure that is still exactly what a tenant would pay.).
Does not establish: That the condition still holds today. This is the most recent reading SSIP holds, not a statement about 2026-09-23. Kilometres paved to full specification, which a second source puts materially lower on a later date. - Juba-Rumbek Paved Highway Distance & Completion Status: Ministry of Roads and Bridges Press Release records 260 km opened / 68% completed, South Sudan Drivers Union & Field Verification Team records 186 km paved asphalt / 47% completed to full spec. The register attributes the divergence to: "The Ministry includes unpaved but graded sub-base sections and bypass tracks as "operational corridor," while transport logistics operators only classify continuous asphalt paving as completed infrastructure."
Rule: Publish both positions from the contradiction register with their own sources and dates, and carry the register's stated root cause. SSIP does not choose between them and does not average them.
Does not establish: Which figure is correct. The register records these as measuring different things on different bases; where that is so, both can be right and neither answers the other's question.
What SSIP does not hold
- One dated figure, recorded because a second source measures completion differently.
How to read this
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