Industrial Chambers Call on the World Community to Reconstruct the Sector

Events – Nahid Oshi

Secretary-General of the Sudanese Federation of Chambers of Industry, Abbas Ali Al-Sayed, affirmed the need for the World community to cooperate in developing plans and programs to rehabilitate and rebuild what was destroyed by the war in Sudan.
He said that Sudan alone cannot finance and rehabilitate the economic and productive sectors that were destroyed during the war, pointing to the huge losses incurred by the industrial sector.
He said in an intervention during the workshop on rebuilding and rehabilitating the industrial sector organized by the Ministry of Industry in cooperation with the Sudanese Embassy in Egypt and the League of Arab States at the Intercontinental Hotel in Cairo, “The size of the losses of the industrial sector cannot be estimated at the present time, particularly in light of the continued acts of theft, looting and destruction of the sector in the states of Khartoum and Gezira which are still under the control of the rebellion.” He added, “We need a credible international body (UNIDO, the African Union AU the League of Arab States) that can determine the size of the losses to the industrial sector so that it can be rehabilitated and reconstructed.” He appreciated the steadfastness of the private sector in receiving the losses without fear and said that businessmen have lost capital and their factories, while cables, transformers, electricity lines and copper smelting have been stolen. And exporting it through official channels, and revealed that 3,000 tons of copper in the transformers were melted and exported to foreign markets, while all the transport vehicles in the factory were looted and transported to West African countries and the markets and industrial areas were looted, and he said that the banks became bankrupt.