In the early 1980s, the country's civilian airports, with the exception of Khartoum International Airport and the airport at Juba, sometimes closed during rainy periods because of runway conditions.

In the mid-1970s, IDA and the Saudi Development Fund agreed to make funds available for construction of new airports at Port Sudan and Wau, reconstruction and improvement of the airport at Malakal, and substantial upgrading of the Juba airport ; these four airports accounted for almost half of domestic traffic.

Some areas — namely Darfur, Juba, and Malakal — were difficult to measure.

A projected 10, 000 soldiers recruited from the northern Puntland region and the central areas of Somalia were to be based in the southern town of Beledweyne, while another 10, 000 soldiers from the Juba and Shabelle regions would be based in Jowhar.

A number of main gravel roads radiating from Juba were also improved.

While the Charleston as a dance probably came from the " star " or challenge dances that were all part of the African-American dance called Juba, the particular sequence of steps which appeared in Runnin ' Wild were probably newly devised for popular appeal.

Drusilla with her brother, were the only grandchildren of African king Juba I of Numidia, Ptolemaic Greek queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt and were among the younger grandchildren of Roman Triumvir Mark Antony.

In the execution of authentic black music and the percussive, polyrhythmic tradition of pattin ' Juba, when the only instruments performers used were their hands and feet, clapping and slapping their bodies and shuffling and stomping their feet, black troupes particularly excelled.

His descendants were the elder Juba I of Numidia ( 85 BC – 46 BC ) and younger Juba II ( 52 BC-23 AD ).

Dances like the Turkey Trot, the Buzzard Lope, and the Juba dance all had their origins in the plantations of the South, and some were popularized by black performers such as William Henry Lane, Signor Cornmeali (" Old Corn Meal "), and John " Picayune " Butler.

A series of meetings were held in Juba starting in July 2006 between the government of Uganda and the LRA.

Only a few were able to escape on their ships, and King Juba took several senators captive back to Numidia for display and execution.

His American critics were less kind, and Juba faded from the limelight.

" Jube " and " Juba " were common names for slaves in this period, especially those rumored to have dancing or musical talent.

Documentation is confusing, as there were at least two black dancers using the name Juba at this time.

Under Co-operative Act n ° 70 of 1973, petty farmers were expropriated again to leave place for the State orientated Fanoole Rice Farm, Mogambo Irrigation Project and Juba Sugar Complex.

His parents were Gregory and Sophie Juba.

Other coastal areas, including Lower Juba, were also somewhat affected.

However, the failure of the Bigombe mediation is seen as laying the groundwork for the 2006 – 2007 Juba talks, which were mediated by the government of South Sudan.

The 5th Sudan Population and Housing Census took place in April / May 2008, stating the population of Juba County to be 372, 413 ( the majority residing in Juba City, which dominates the county ), but the results were rejected by the Autonomous Government of Southern Sudan.

The children of Cleopatra and Juba were:

The last Numidian king Juba II and his wife, the Greek Ptolemaic princess Cleopatra Selene II were forced to flee the other part of Numidian kingdom because the local population disapproved of their king being too Romanized, which caused civil unrest between 26 BC-20 BC.

Juba and Cleopatra did not just rename their new capital, but rebuilt the town in fine Roman style on a large, lavish and expensive scale.

* 49 BC – Julius Caesar's general Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated in the Second Battle of the Bagradas River by the Numidians under Publius Attius Varus and King Juba of Numidia.

All these improvements radiating from Juba, however, have been vitiated by the civil war, in which the roads have been extensively mined by the SPLA and the bridges destroyed, and because roads have not been maintained, they have seriously deteriorated.

** August 24 – Caesar's general Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated in North Africa by the Pompeians under Attius Varus and King Juba I of Numidia ( whom he defeated earlier in the Battle of Utica ), in the Battle of the Bagradas River, and commits suicide.

The Qabr-er-Rumia -- best known by its French name, Tombeau de la Chrétienne, tradition making it the burial-place of Florinda, la Cava Rumía, the beautiful and unfortunate daughter of Count Julian -- is near Kolea, and is known to be the tomb of the Mauretanian king Juba II and of his wife Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Mark Antony and Cleopatra, queen of Egypt.

Juba II was brought to Rome by Julius Caesar and took part in Caesar ’ s triumphal procession.

In Gades, ( modern Cádiz ) and Carthago Nova ( modern Cartagena ) Spain, Juba II was appointed by Augustus as an honorary Duovir.

Similarly, he is followed in Lily of the Nile by Stephanie Dray, another novel that follows him and his young sister from the tragic fall of Alexandria to the cusp of her marriage to Juba II of Numidia.

After Cato the Younger was defeated by Caesar, he committed suicide ( 46 BC ) in Utica, and Numidia became briefly the province of Africa Nova until Augustus restored Juba II ( son of Juba I ) after the Battle of Actium.

The county was named after the Yuba River by Captain John Sutter for the Native American village Yubu, Yupu or Juba near the confluence of the Yuba and Feather rivers.

The Numidians, Phoenicians, and Carthaginians knew of the islands and made frequent visits, including expeditions dispatched from Mogador by Juba.

It is bordered by the Somalian regions of Banadir, Middle Shebelle, Hiran, Bay and Middle Juba, and the Indian Ocean.

It is bordered by the Somalian regions of Bakool, Hiran, Lower Shabele, Middle Juba and Gedo.

Gedo is a region created in 1980s and is bordered by the Ogaden in Ethiopia, the North Eastern Province in Kenya, and the Somali regions of Bakool, Bay, Jubbada Dhexe ( Middle Juba ), and Jubbada Hoose ( Lower Juba ) further down east.

On the lower southern portion of the Gedo region is red sandy flat land, running from the Bardera District on the Juba Valley, all the way west to El Wak town on the border with Kenya's North Eastern Province, a district mainly populated by Somalis through the ages.

Middle Juba is bordered by Somali regions of Gedo, Bay, Lower Shabele and Jubbada Hoose and the Indian Ocean.

Lower Juba is bordered by Kenya, the Somalian regions of Gedo, Middle Juba, and the Indian Ocean.

Led by Colonel Barre Adan Shire Hiiraale, the ASF administration renamed itself the Juba Valley Alliance in 2001.

* " Juba ", a song by DJ Spooky from the album Songs of a Dead Dreamer

* Juba Conference ( 1947 ), a June 1947 meeting attended by British and Sudanese delegates in Juba, Sudan ( now South Sudan )