South Sudan has the potential to become an economic powerhouse in Africa if the government pursues the right policies, former International Monetary Fund chief, Dominique Straus Kahn, said Tuesday during a visit to the world’s newest nation.

“I do believe that there is a lot to do here,” Strauss-Kahn said.

“The country has a lot of natural resources and so the possibility for this country to become one of the strong countries among African countries is for me… a challenge that is possible to win.”

Strauss-Kahn was in Juba to inaugurate a new bank, the National Credit Bank, nearly two years after he resigned from the IMF amid a widely publicized sex scandal that ended his IMF and political career.

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