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Sudan
Hamdok under pressure to do away with debt

Sudanese Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok. © Thomas Padilla/MAXPPP

The prime minister's recent visits to Cairo and Riyadh were in part intended to enable Sudan to move forward on its debt. At a time when the country's finances are at their worst, Khartoum is grappling with the opposing forces of citizens' discontent and external pressure to carry out unpopular reforms. [...]

Published on 15/03/2021 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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