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While transmission seems to be declining in Yei town, the outbreak in Juba town is expected to increase in the coming days.

A cluster of tea sellers in one of Juba's main markets voiced the desire of many to hold onto the geographical reference as well.

Kenyans are the most numerous foreigners in Juba, the would-be state's capital, with property agents and a host of consultants to the fore.

The preliminary returns must be verified by electoral officials in Juba before official results are announced, probably in a few weeks.

I am in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, and heading for a remote bit of Nuerland, hard up against the bandit border with Ethiopia.

With a few hours to go before south Sudan becomes an independent state, final preparations are underway in the capital Juba.

But most business-minded observers think such plans fanciful, like the models of Juba skyscrapers in government offices.

The 17-year-old is one of the top students at Juba Day School in Juba, Southern Sudan, but he is struggling to pay his school fees.

Friday was the final day of campaigning. Southern Sudanese paraded through Juba, their possible future capital.

The town of Bor, half an hour by plane down the Nile from Juba, was once a busy trading post but now feels on a different planet.

Two new cases of poliomyelitis have been reported from two new regions: Lower Juba, southern Somalia and Mudug region, northeastern Somalia.

Reports of acute watery diarrhoea have been received from areas surrounding Juba, and laboratory tests are continuing for all locations.

The Under Secretary of the Ministry of Transport and Roads, Daniel Wani, says reconstructing Juba's roads is not an easy task.

Update: Read what South Sudanese in Juba had to say about their future country's name.

The dispute is in respect of a high oil exports fee that Khartoum is demanding from Juba.

The little aircraft has been flying a long loop out of Juba, the capital, over what will become the Bandingalo National Park.

Ramsar lakes in the state, geographically equivalent to the center of the country, hundreds of kilometers from Juba.

A recent report by the International Finance Corporation ranks Juba 159th out of 183 places worldwide for ease of doing business.

PetroChina is building a computer laboratory at the University of Juba that will bear the company's name.

When Carter and Annan visited St. Theresa Bakhita Kator Primary School in Juba, about 100 Sudanese were lined up in the school's courtyard.

Moreover, outside Juba the condition of southern Sudan is still dire.

Mass vaccination campaigns are ongoing in Aweil West (MSF-France) and scheduled to start in Bor, Juba, Nimule, and Rumbek in mid-March.

Our correspondent Will Ross is in Juba. He witnessed the day's events and sent us this report.

Former enemies were smiling together as a historic conference opened in Juba.

A young child picks up flags left behind after candidate Salva Kiir had a rally in Juba, Sudan, on Friday.

Juba, the future capital of southern Sudan, is buzzing with excitement as the country prepares to officially declare independence Saturday.

The nicer containerised hotel rooms in Juba come with desks and double beds covered with mosquito nets (see picture).

He was speaking from the pulpit in a Roman Catholic church in the southern capital Juba.

Tong is the undersecretary for wildlife in semi-autonomous southern Sudan, based in Juba, the capital.

On Sunday, in Juba, some voters were taking half an hour to get through all the ballots.

Building materials are hard to come by since no paved roads reach Juba and there are few original buildings.

Relative to local incomes, Juba is the second most expensive city in the world in which to start a business, after Congo's Kinshasa.

Juba is a city in flux; since a peace treaty with the north was signed five years ago, southern Sudan has been preparing for self-rule.

Joseph Otumoro, who goes to a Catholic school in Juba, hopes with independence, there will be more opportunities for students like him.

Women in Jebel market say the mayor of Juba has promised to tear down these brothels and evict them soon.

Yet foreign advisers in Juba have publicly doubted that the plan is viable.

South Sudan's president Salva Kiir (L) and Sudan's president Omar Hassan al-Bashir attend the Independence Day ceremony in Juba.

Clinton is meeting Friday with South Sudan President Salva Kiir in Juba during the brief visit.

The trader runs a logistics company in Juba. He has been coming back and forward to South Sudan for years.

Peter Martell reports from the southern Sudanese capital Juba.

IN JABI village, on the Juba River in southern Somalia, the mothers are mostly girls.

Indeed, Juba, the south's biggest town and capital, exudes a mood of expectation.

All reported cases are concentrated in Yei and Juba towns of southern Sudan.

In order for people to participate in the referendum and ensure safety, all the shops in Juba are closed.

Ministers in Juba rudely dismiss such ambitions.

Previous weeks had seen about 20 attacks on the main road from Juba into Kenya, leaving more than 100 dead.

On July 9, tens of thousands gathered in Juba to celebrate the birth of the world's newest nation, South Sudan.

Sending a shipping container from a port in neighbouring Kenya to landlocked Juba costs almost $10, 000.

THE Juba river region, in Somalia, is hard country.

Ministers in South Sudan's capital, Juba, at first claimed they had "won the case" , then grew puzzled.

The whole region has perhaps 100km (62 miles) of paved roads, half in the capital, Juba, and the other half on Chinese-run oilfields.

Juba: Your family. In the afterlife.

"It's all academic until we know what the south Sudanese want, " said David Raad, a business consultant in Juba.

The government of south Sudan, based in Juba, has suffered from the falling price of oil.

He argues with the government in Juba but it ignores him.

We're at this roundabout in the middle of Juba.

Michael Lual, 17, is a student at Juba Day School in Southern Sudan.

His five siblings live in a village outside Juba with their mother.

Juba: Can they hear you?

There is grit in my teeth from the dust on Juba's dirt roads.

Ministry buildings are going up, but many of Juba's people live in tents.

The head of Juba University, Aggrey Abate, says his school can play a big part in training agricultural specialists.

Michael's father died during Sudan's civil war, and he now lives in Juba with his uncle so that he can attend a better school.

"It is your duty, " Juba's Catholic bishop told his congregation.

Juba: What do you say to them?