Breaking The Budget

October 2008 | Ratings Update

The finance minister of South Sudan on October 24 asked lawmakers to approve a supplementary budget owing to overspending by the armed forces. The extra spending amounts to nearly two-thirds of the original planed expenditure. The national budget of the semi-autonomous region has been weighed down by the costs of running the large standing army it has maintained

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