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Sudan: Another North-South war would cost 100 billion US dollars
In a report entitled “Cost of Future Conflict in Sudan”, explains that a new war would cost 100 billion US dollars, costing 50 billions for Sudan, 30 billions to the international community and 25 billions to the neighbouring countries in the region – Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda.
The loss would represent about the third of these countries growth. For the Security Studies Institute, the report helps everyone, the region actors as well as the policy makers to understand that a return to war will affect the whole sub-region, and convince the two parties to calm down their positions, smooth their aggressive speeches and invest in peace. We believe that the private sector has the capacity to cross borders to talk to the South and North leaders to mobilise their regions of origin and support the process from inside. The Southern Sudanese elite should support the process course and whatever the outcome would be, secession or unity, peace must prevail. ” The idea is to focus only on economic consequences of war to ultimately mobilize the private sector, as well as all political actors to help prevent escalation and to act while it is still time. The authors of the study acknowledge that their predictions had been made, in particular, from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund financial and economic data , and solemnly dedicated to mobilise while there is still time.