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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Riyadh - Fatehelrahman Yousif

Sudan’s Treasury Risks Losing $2 Billion in Gold Revenues

The battles paralyze the commercial sector in Khartoum. (Reuters)

Sudanese economists have warned that the prolongation of the war will afflict the Sudanese economy with huge losses and increase the average inflation rate, which has already reached 600 percent.

Sudanese Economist Dr. Muhammad Al-Nayer estimated that the suspension of operations at the Khartoum airport to have disrupted 5 percent of the total Sudanese exports and imports, which amount to a total of $15 billion. He added that the Sudanese treasury lost $2 billion of gold exports.

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