- NAIROBI, Kenya: A group of think tanks says in a new report that Sudan could lose at least $52.1 billion over 10 years if the country’s north and southern regions go to war again.
The report says this is a conservative estimate of possible conflict that may occur after a January independence referendum for Southern Sudan is concluded.
The figure does not include the human cost of north and south Sudan going back to the battlefield after five years of relative peace.
The report is based on recognized models used to calculate the economic cost of war as well as World Bank and International Monetary Fund figures for Sudan.
Southerners fought a two-decade civil war against the Muslim, northern-dominated central government in which 2 million people died and the economy was ravaged.
