Economics

Sudan’s Economic Revival Gets a Boost as Debt Relief Beckons

  • France, Germany, others signal readiness to forgo repayments
  • Commercial lenders group says will offer fair share of relief
Photographer: Samuel Corum/Bloomberg
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Sudan got assurances billions of dollars of external debt will be canceled after the clearing of its arrears with the International Monetary Fund, a boost for the impoverished African country emerging from decades of dictatorship.