“It is too early to comment on the repercussions of recent events in Sudan, but we are watching developments carefully,” a spokeswoman for the fund told AFP.
The declaration of emergency comes nearly two years after an agreement to share power between the army and civilians following the overthrow in April 2019 of the regime of Omar al-Bashir, who ruled Sudan for more than 30 years.
On Monday, the army detained Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok for a short period, before Hamdok’s office announced on Tuesday evening that he and his wife had returned to their residence in Khartoum.
Sudan had just got rid of the strict US sanctions imposed on it for decades, after Washington removed it in December 2020 from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, paving the way for it to obtain the country’s much-needed financial aid and investments.
In June, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund granted Sudan debt relief under the Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative, reducing the country’s debt in half to about $28 billion.
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