The road continues through Sirsiri, to end at Nimule, at the international border with Uganda.
In addition, it provides the most cost-effective and most efficient route to the Indian Ocean port city of Mombasa in Kenya.
[3] The road update was completed in 2012 and is reported to have cost USD 225 million to renovate and upgrade.
[5] On the 8 June 2017, a convoy carrying civilians escorted by an heavily armed SPLA united fall in the ambush of opposition forces along the Nimule-Juba highway.
14 people were killed, including high-ranking military officials allied to the regime in Juba.