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| East/Subsaharan Africa |
| Sudan's rebels 'plan own currency' |
| 2002-12-02 |
| Sudan's southern rebels are planning to introduce their own currency, reports say, in the latest manoeuvring following recent peace talks. According to Uganda's state-owned New Vision newspaper, the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement has started putting up posters showing designs for the "New Sudan Pound", to supplant the Sudanese dinar. The new currency will go into circulation in January despite protests from the government in Khartoum, the paper says. But experts believe that the announcement may be a bargaining ploy - and would be largely symbolic even if notes actually enter circulation. The rebels' definition of "autonomy" seems to be rather more, ummm... autonomous than the gummint's... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |