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Sudan seeks $6b at Oslo donors' meeting
Sudan will ask donor nations meeting this week for $6 billion over the next three years to help rebuild Africa's largest nation.
- Agencies
- Published: 11:10 May 6, 2008
Oslo: Sudan will ask donor nations meeting this week for $6 billion over the next three years to help rebuild Africa's largest nation.
The Sudan consortium, which began meeting on Monday, has met yearly since a 2005 north-south peace deal ended Africa's longest civil war.
Host nation Norway said it would provide nearly $500 million in aid.
South Sudan's semi-autonomous government says it has received less than donors pledged in the past.
Southern Sudan Minister for Presidential Affairs Luka Biong Deng said the inflexibility of donors and the World Bank-run system for distributing aid, and said the "low capacity" of Sudan's central government was also a problem. He did not elaborate.
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