May 25 - 2021 KHARTOUM Sudan's PM Hamdok and World Bank Vice President for Eastern and Southern Africa Hafez Ghanem (SUNA) The World Bank’s Vice President for Eastern and Southern Africa, Hafez Ghanem, visited Khartoum yesterday and met with Sudan's Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok. Ghanem announced a $2 billion fund from the World Bank to finance infrastructure projects in Sudan and to support displaced people. Sudanese Minister of Finance and Economic Planning Jibril Ibrahim was also present at the meeting, as was a wider delegation of the World Bank. Ghanem said that he was pleased to meet Hamdok following the great success of the Paris Conference earlier this month, which he described as “very important”.