IOM, ISO (correspondent), ITU, NAM, OAU, OIC, OPCW, PCA, UN, UNCTAD,
UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNU, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WToO, WTrO
(observer)

Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador
Mahdi Ibrahim MAHAMMAD (recalled to Khartoum in August 1998)

chancery: 2210 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008

telephone: [1] (202) 338-8565

FAX: [1] (202) 667-2406

Diplomatic representation from the US: US officials at the US
Embassy in Khartoum were moved for security reasons in February 1996
and have been relocated to the US Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and
Cairo, Egypt, from where they make periodic visits to Khartoum; the
US Embassy in Khartoum is located on Sharia Abdul Latif Avenue;
mailing address - P. O. Box 699, Khartoum; APO AE 09829; telephone -
[249] (11) 774611 or 774700; FAX - [249] (11) 774137; the US Embassy
in Nairobi, Kenya is located in the Interim Office Building on
Mombasa Road, Nairobi; mailing address - P. O. Box 30137, Box 21A,
Unit 64100, APO AE 09831; telephone - [254] (2) 751613; FAX - [254]
(2) 743204; the US Embassy in Cairo, Egypt is located at (North
Gate) 8, Kamel El-Din Salah Street, Garden City, Cairo; mailing
address - Unit 64900, APO AE 09839-4900; telephone - [20] (2)
3557371; FAX - [20] (2) 3573200

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Sudan Economy

Economy - overview: Sudan is buffeted by civil war, chronic
instability, adverse weather, weak world agricultural prices, a drop
in remittances from abroad, and counterproductive economic policies.
The private sector's main areas of activity are agriculture (which
employs 80% of the work force), trading, and light industry which is
mostly processing of agricultural goods. Most of the 1990s were
characterized by sluggish economic growth as the IMF suspended
lending, declared Sudan a non-cooperative state, and threatened to
expel Sudan from the IMF. Starting in 1997, Sudan began implementing
IMF macroeconomic reforms which have successfully stabilized
inflation at 10% or less. Sudan continues to have limited
international credit resources as over 75% of Sudan's debt of $24.9
billion is in arrears and Khartoum's continued prosecution of the
civil war works to isolate Sudan. In 1999, Sudan began exporting oil
and in 1999-2000 had recorded its first trade surpluses. Current oil
production stands at