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JUBA Casey Cizikas Jersey , Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- South Sudan on Monday said the recentelection outcome in Kenya that renewed President Uhuru Kenyatta'sterm in office remains strategic to the political and economicsurvival of the world's youngest nation.


President Salva Kiir's spokesman Ateny Wek Ateny told Xinhua inJuba that Kiir has already conveyed his congratulatory message toKenyatta and looks forward to strengthening already existingbilateral relations with the region's economic powerhouse.


"Kenya is a strategic neighbor to South Sudan and therefore itselection is strategic. We congratulate whoever has won and thisshould not be taken as political," Ateny disclosed.


Meanwhile, Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Mawien Makollauded Kenya as partner in the regional group IntergovernmentalAuthority on Development (IGAD) that helped broker the shaky 2015peace agreement to end more than four years of fighting.


"Kenya is a strong partner in the IGAD and East AfricanCommunity (EAC). Our relationship will stay the same and we willstill pursue our relation like we used to," he said.


Oil rich and yet impoverished South Sudan became last year thesixth member of the regional trade bloc EAC that includes Kenya Adam Pelech Jersey ,Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi which it hopes to benefit fromin terms of trade, education Calvin De Haan Jersey , health and infrastructureservices.


Kenya's port of Mombasa remains the largest transport corridorfor most of the countries in the region, including land lockedSouth Sudan that relies heavily on fuel and food imports from theregion.


The war-torn country is also part of the Northern Corridorproject on infrastructure in the region that is pursuing ambitiousjoint infrastructure projects like oil pipeline, roads and railprojects.


South Sudan descended into violence in December 2013 afterpolitical dispute between President Kiir and his former deputyMachar led to fighting that pitied mostly Dinka ethnic soldiersloyal to Kiir against Machar's Nuer ethnic group.


The 2015 peace agreement to end the violence was again violatedin July 2016 when the rival factions resumed fighting in thecapital forcing Machar to flee into exile.


The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people anddisplaced millions that have sought refuge in neighboringcountries. Enditem

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