Sudan could spend up to 70% of its budget on several war fronts this year

Armed militiamen in Khartoum, Sudan, 2008.

Sudan, depending on who you ask, will spend between 25% and 70% of its total budget for 2016 on war.

On paper, the government has budgeted 17 billion Sudanese pounds ($2.8 billion) for security and defense which takes up a quarter of its total budget. But in fact, economists and think tanks estimate the total spend will be much higher.

Regardless, allocating as much as one dollar in every four to war reflects a significant amount of military spending in a country where nearly half the population lives in poverty. That’s 25 times as much as Sudan plans to spend on health, and more than 10 times as much as it has allocated for education.

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