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- Tuesday 14 May 2013
May 13, 2013 (JUBA) – Disgraced former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn arrived in South Sudan on Monday to open a new bank, marking a rare return to the financial world since his career was derailed by a (...)
- Thursday 16 May 2013
May 15, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan’s minister of Investment Mustafa Osman Ismail accused unspecified parties within his ministry of deceiving investors by promising to facilitate their work and offering investment zones. Sudan investment (...)
- Wednesday 24 April 2013
April 23, 2013 (JUBA) - South Sudanese president Salva Kiir Mayardit said on Tuesday that the Chinese government has approved a major loan scheme to help his country improve infrastructure, adding that the agreement shows the level of (...)
- Sunday 21 April 2013
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
April 20, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) - Ethiopian prime minister Hailemariam Dessalegn has denied that the government is forcing tens of thousands of people off their land in order to lease it to foreign investors.
“As far (...)
- Wednesday 23 May 2012
May 23, 2012 (JUBA) – South Sudan may soon relax its austerity measures if the government reaches a breakthrough with companies owned by a group of US-based multi-billionaires who have expressed their readiness to invest in various (...)
- Wednesday 30 January 2013
January 29, 2013 (WASHINGTON) – The German government has defended its decision to host an economic conference in Berlin on Sudan, with South Sudan saying that its goal is to encourage dialogue between the two ex-foes. Germany foreign (...)
- Sunday 1 April 2012
March 31, 2012 (JUBA) - South Sudan is open to investment in the oil and minerals sector, the country’s deputy minister of petroleum and mining told Sudan Tribune on Saturday, explaining that it is in the interest of the government to (...)
- Sunday 20 January 2013
January 20, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement - North (SPLM-N) has called on Germany to cancel a conference to support foreign investment in Sudan, following its lose of oil revenue resulting from South (...)
- Wednesday 30 May 2012
May 29, 2012 (WASHINGTON) – Sudan’s fragile economy is facing "daunting" challenges , the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in its first assessment of the economic health of the east African country, nearly one year after the (...)
- Friday 21 September 2012
September 20, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – An Egyptian commercial bank is going to inject 500 million US dollars into Sudanese markets to fund joint investment projects, the head of the bank said in the wake of growing political and economic (...)
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