SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Bloomberg - Ex-World Bank Official Tapped to Fix Sudan’s Ravaged Economy

5/9/19: Bloomberg - Ex-World Bank Official Tapped to Fix Sudan’s Ravaged Economy, by Mohammed Alamin

 Bloomberg highlight the economic challenges facing Sudan’s new finance minister, former World Bank economist Ibrahim Elbadawi.

 Prime Minister Hamdok’s cabinet is “inheriting a battered banking sector, annual inflation at over 40% and shortages of everything from fuel to flour and banknotes,” a situation that eventually unseated Omar al-Bashir.