Sudan's economy contracted by 40% in 2023 due to armed conflict and is expected to decline by 28% this year, Finance Minister Gibril Ibrahim said, as quoted by media.
State revenues fell by 80% last year, and to save money the government is paying only 60% of civil servants, the minister added.
In October 2023, the parties, who had been clashing since April 2023, resumed negotiations in Jeddah, mediated by Saudi Arabia, but hostilities in the country continue.
In mid-February, the army announced an advance in Omdurman, the second largest city after the capital, Khartoum, as its troops broke the siege of the engineering corps in the south of the city for the first time since the clashes began.
The UN revealed this week that nearly 14,000 people had been killed and about 27,700 injured in the conflict. The International Committee of the Red Cross warned earlier that continued hostilities could lead to disease epidemics and a catastrophic collapse of the health infrastructure.
In addition, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs disclosed that approximately 8.1 million Sudanese have been displaced since the beginning of the crisis. Of these, about 6.3 million remain within Sudan's borders, while about 1.8 million have sought refuge in neighboring countries.