China providing new loans to Sudan: official
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March 24, 2014 (KHARTOUM) - The Sudanese ministry of finance of Sudan
signed a number of agreements China in the fields of launching new oil
exploration efforts, development projects in addition to the approval
of additional loans, an official here said today.
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Meeting between Sudan's ruling NCP and China's CCP in Beijing June 29,
2013 (Chinese foreign ministry)
The Undersecretary at the Ministry of Finance Youssef Abdullah
al-Hussein told the Sudanese Media Center (SMC) website after
returning from Beijing that the two sides reached an understanding on
the construction of the new Khartoum International Airport, Blue Nile
sugar factory and Omdurman-Bara road project.
They also agreed on working to increase Sudan's oil production and
speed up work on the country's railway system, he added.
Al-Hussein said that Beijing confirmed its earnest desire to help
Sudan overcome its economic obstacles. He praised the role of the
Export-Import Bank of China which funds development projects which
will begin in the second half of this year.
The Sudanese official also announced that the bank promised to fund
oil projects in coordination with the China National Petroleum Company
(CNPC) and credit institutions.
Last week the Sudanese finance minister Badr al-Deen Mahmoud and the
oil minister Makkawi Mohamed Awad visited Beijing for talks with
Chinese officials and executives of major companies and banks.
China has been Sudan's largest foreign investor particularly in oil
and telecommunications after western firms shunned the East African
nation due to conflicts and sanctions.
But a report by Reuters last year cited growing difficulties facing
Chinese investments as a result of the deteriorating economy.
China's exports and imports to and from Sudan, which totaled $11.5
billion in 2011, amounted to just $3.3 billion in the January-November
period of 2012, Reuters quoted official Chinese data.
The drop in oil trade accounted for much of that decline. But even
while the oil industry has been shut down trade has continued to fall.
In the first five months of 2013, Chinese exports to Sudan fell 8
percent from a year earlier to $1.7 billion, the data shows.
Sudan has seen its economy take a nosedive after the south became
independent in July 2011, taking with it three-quarters of the once
united country's oil output. According to figures from the
International Monetary Fund (IMF), the country's GDP contracted by
4.4% in 2012.
The World Economic Outlook (WEO) released last October by the IMF
projected Sudan's economy to grow by 3.9% in 2013 and 2.5% in 2014.
The Sudanese pound has lost more than half its value, pushing
inflation rates to record levels given that the East African nation
imports most of its food.
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