The meeting will bring together over 200 technical experts, investors, donors, NGO and government officials, who will discuss the role regional investors and traders can play in the development of southern Sudan.

The conference will offer a forum for the Sudanese private and public sectors to showcase opportunities in the oil, gas, power, infrastructure and agriculture sub-sectors.

There are almost no roads connecting the south with the rest of the country and neighboring nations, and in most cases, the few available are either still mined or usable only during the dry season.

There is a rush for business in southern Sudan now. The conference was a huge success and very soon, there would be a ' tsunami' ... the foreign investors who attended the meeting would start scrambling for opportunities in the oil, gas, power, infrastructure and agriculture sub-sectors.

One would think that by the second decade of the twenty-first century, the intellectual poverty of technocracy and the primacy of politics over it would be a well-established truth in need of no further defense.

The intelligence experts in our government and I believe ... that they have engaged in a process and become connected in a variety of different ways.