Sudan: West Kordofan Power Project Shambles Raised in Sudan Parliament

16 November 2017

Omdurman — Sudan's Electricity Minister, Mutaz Musa, came under fire from MPs in the Sudanese Parliament on Tuesday after admitting severe shortcomings related to the Chinese-sponsored El Fula Power Station project designed to supply power to Kordofan and Darfur. The Parliament voted by majority against the Minister's report on the delay in the implementation of El Fula thermal station project.

The Minister admitted to Parliament that 41 truckloads of power plant equipment destined for the project were sold in Um Bedda as scrap through the Sudanese company for transportation; however Musa said that his Ministry managed to recover them.

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