African Development Bank allocates $100 million to Sudan
September 15, 2026 (KHARTOUM) – The African Development Bank has allocated around $100 million to fund public health, agriculture, and basic services in Sudan, the finance ministry said on Tuesday, as Khartoum seeks to restore multilateral financial flows choked off by war and institutional standstills.
The funding plan was discussed during talks between Sudanese State Minister for Finance Mohamed Nour Abdel-Daim and the AfDB’s country manager for Sudan, David Muthusi Mutuku, focused on reviving stalled international assistance, tracking grant disbursements, and reforming public financial management.
Sudan’s economy has been battered by severe contraction, revenue collapse, and broken supply chains since war broke out in April 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
The finance ministry said the AfDB portfolio includes allocations denominated in the bank’s Units of Account, with 19 million UA earmarked for healthcare, 19 million UA for water, 6 million UA for education, and 29 million UA across other services, alongside agricultural funding.
One AfDB Unit of Account is equivalent to the International Monetary Fund’s Special Drawing Rights.
Khartoum is pitching an electricity and energy project pipeline valued at more than $500 million to international development partners, with the ministry urging donors to focus on bankable, economically viable proposals.
Mutuku said the multilateral lender had begun internal coordination to evaluate including power ventures in its lending pipeline, stressing that future financing would depend on project readiness and rigorous feasibility studies.
The two sides also agreed to work toward recovering a stalled $18 million grant initially earmarked for the International Fund for Agricultural Development, setting up a joint technical committee and requesting a specialized AfDB assessment mission.
Khartoum has struggled to access broad international development capital since a 2021 military coup and the subsequent conflict led major donors to suspend programmatic budget support.
Abdel-Daim said the finance ministry is working with the World Bank’s legal department to lift Sudan’s administrative classification as a “de facto government,” providing official records on state institutions in a bid to clear the path for a technical mission and a full resumption of development lending.
Talks additionally addressed public financial reforms backed by a grant from the Pan African Federation of Accountants to introduce International Public Sector Accounting Standards, as well as fiscal governance measures to curtail tax and customs evasion.