EU Blames World Bank for Delaying South Sudan Reconstruction

Abstract

Background: In a revealing article which appeared in the Sudan Tribune of Friday 19 January 2007, we read the following:
Jan 18. 2007 (KHARTOUM) - The representative of the European Union in Sudan has blamed the World Bank for delaying use of the Multi-Donor Trust Funds for reconstruction in southern Sudan.

"It is unfortunate that  the implementation of the those promises were made in Oslo have been quite slow, from the European Union/European Commission I still have good news to say because we have donated to the Multi-Donor Trust Fund (MDTF) all that  we promised to fund. but we are little bit unpleased of the process on the  World Bank"s side who is administrating the MDTFs. Some of the administration, some of the approvals of die project have been too slow, and we have been actually criticizing and communicating this to die World Bank and hope that things are moving more rapidly." The  EU official told the radio.