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> International Monetary Fund member countries have agreed to clear Sudan's arrears to the institution, France's president said on Monday, removing the final hurdle to the African nation getting wider relief on its external debt of at least $50 billion.
> France will provide Sudan with a $1.5 billion bridge loan to facilitate the clearance, Emmanuel Macron said, at a summit in Paris to promote debt relief and investment in the African country, adding that his country was in favor of a full clearance of the $5 billion it is owed by Sudan.
> The pledges made by member countries including the United States, Britain, and Saudi Arabia, allow the IMF to cover the arrears and repay the bridge loan, and would help broader economic reform efforts in Sudan, Macron said.
> "The reduction of Sudan's debt that we are going to soon initiate is a first result of these reforms, and this trajectory ... should be consolidated, both economically and politically," Macron said at the opening of the conference attended by officials from Egypt, Europe, the United States and international financial institutions.
> Sudan built up huge arrears on its debt, but has made rapid progress towards having much of it forgiven under the IMF and World Bank's Highly Indebted Poor Countries scheme, allowing Sudan access to cheaper international financing.
> With Sudan's arrears to multilateral lenders settled, it can now move forward to settling its $38 billion debt to bilateral creditors.
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> French prosecutors have opened an inquiry into banking giant BNP Paribas over claims of complicity in crimes against humanity, genocide and torture in Sudan, sources said Thursday.
> A year ago almost to the day, nine Sudanese victims backed by rights groups including the FIDH filed a criminal complaint against BNP Paribas for allegedly facilitating crimes committed in Sudan between 2002 and 2008, particularly in the war-torn western region of Darfur.
> The FIDH said last year that the complaint "Marks the first attempt to hold the French bank criminally responsible for alleged complicity in international crimes committed in Sudan, and Darfur in particular."
> In 2014, BNP Paribas pleaded guilty in the United States to conspiring to violate American sanctions against the governments of Sudan, Iran and Cuba, and agreed to a fine of $8.9 billion.
> "By granting the Sudanese regime access to international money markets, BNPP allowed the government to function, pay its staff, military and security forces, make purchases abroad, all while Sudan was a pariah on the international scene for planning and committing crimes in Darfur," he added.
> A criminal complaint has also been lodged against BNP for alleged complicity in the 1994 genocide of Rwanda's Tutsi minority.
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