{"id":58155,"date":"2025-12-04T02:22:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=58155"},"modified":"2025-12-04T02:22:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:22:21","slug":"700-million-from-the-world-bank-to-finance-new-projects-in-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/04\/700-million-from-the-world-bank-to-finance-new-projects-in-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"$700 Million from the World Bank to Finance New Projects in Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events \u2013 Rehab Abdullah<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>World Bank Mission Chief Maryam Salem, the Bank\u2019s Regional Director for Sudan, Ethiopia, and Eritrea, announced that the World Bank is preparing to finance new projects worth about $700 million, to be implemented over the next three years.<\/p>\n<p>In a briefing to the Minister of Finance Dr. Jibril Ibrahim on Wednesday\u2014attended by State Minister Mohammed Nour Abdel Daim, Planning Undersecretary Mohammed Bashar, Country Director Yoichiro Ishihara, economist Dr. Mohammed Osman, and officials from the Ministry\u2019s External Financing and International Financial Institutions units\u2014Salem affirmed the Bank\u2019s continued support for major development projects in Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>She stated that the Bank will contribute to financing recovery and reconstruction projects, and will coordinate the arrival of a technical advisory team in the coming period. According to her, the Bank\u2019s priorities align with the government\u2019s focus on health, agriculture, social protection, youth support, financial and economic reforms, renewable energy, electricity, digitalization, and telecommunications.<\/p>\n<p>The mission also reviewed ongoing projects whose funding had not been interrupted, particularly in health and education.<\/p>\n<p>Finance Minister Jibril Ibrahim stressed that health, water, recovery, and reconstruction remain top government priorities. He called for cooperation with humanitarian organizations and relevant bodies in implementing these projects, praising the World Bank\u2019s efforts and its continued support for initiatives that help restore stability. He added that several pre-prepared feasibility studies exist\u2014particularly for agricultural sector projects\u2014which could be implemented through new partnerships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events \u2013 Rehab Abdullah World Bank Mission Chief Maryam Salem, the Bank\u2019s Regional Director for Sudan, Ethiopia, and Eritrea, announced that the World Bank is preparing to finance new projects worth about $700 million, to be implemented over the next three years. In a briefing to the Minister of Finance Dr. Jibril Ibrahim on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58157,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58155\/revisions\/58157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}