Getting The Multilaterals Onside

January 2007 | Economic Analysis

Sudan's external debt burden, comprising, for the most part, sovereign and multilateral credit, stood at just over US$27.0bn at the end of 2005, and is likely to have grown by around 1% over the course of 2006, bringing the year end total to an estimated US$27.3bn. The strong performance of the economy and bountiful oil revenues are keeping a lid on debt growth, which should allow external debt obligations to fall marginally in 2006, to a projected US$27.1bn. That external debt growth is stagnating is encouraging; the current state of affairs is far from sustainable. The Bank of Sudan's own

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