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Sudan peace will cost $7.5 billion: finance minister
People wave flags of Sudan defaced with the logo of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), one of rebel signatories to a historic peace deal, during a reception ceremony in Sudan's capital Khartoum on October 8, 2020.
Photo credit: Ebrahim Hamid | AFP
What you need to know:
- Under the October 3 deal between Khartoum and a coalition of rebel groups, the government pledged to fund major development projects in areas ruined by years of war, including in the western Darfur region.
- Sudan's economy is in crisis, laid low by long years of civil war under Bashir's rule, US sanctions and the 2011 secession of the oil-rich south.
Khartoum,
Sudan's landmark peace deal with rebels that seeks to end decades of war will cost $7.5 billion, the finance minister has said -- a vast sum for the poverty-stricken nation.
