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Sudan’s information ministry says one of the country’s largest military companies has agreed to gradually hand over its civilian operations to the finance ministry, with the aim of eventually converting it to a public shareholding firm.
If completed, the spin-off of Defense Industrial Systems’ civilian business could help ease the tension between the civilian and military elements of Sudan’s transitional government.
Many civilian politicians view the opaque business activities of the country’s military as inappropriate and complain its profits are not included in the state budget.
On Wednesday, the company hosted Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and other ministers after extending a rare invitation to civilians to tour its facilities on the outskirts of the capital, Khartoum.
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