UNMIS' Indian Construction Engineering Company recently replaced the road/walkway from Malakal Airport's terminal building to the runway, where pools of stagnant water previously blocked all movement during the rainy season.

Over a three-week period, the Company built a new 20 by 40 metre reinforced cement pavement capable of handling constant traffic and heavy loads. It also renovated the airport's dilapidated air traffic control tower by repairing the staircase, covering its leaky roof with protective sheeting, replacing about 40 windows and retiling the tower floor.

Acting on a request from the Governor, the Company also improved drainage and roads in central parts of Bor to prepare for coming rains. Using its engineering equipment, the detachment dug out a one-kilometre drainage channel and widened 2.6 kilometres of road to 10 metres.