{"id":241098,"date":"2026-08-14T20:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T18:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-refugees-lost-trade-and-security-costs-how-conflict-in-one-african-country-drives-up-debt-for-its-neighbours\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T20:19:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T18:19:00","slug":"sudan-refugees-lost-trade-and-security-costs-how-conflict-in-one-african-country-drives-up-debt-for-its-neighbours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-refugees-lost-trade-and-security-costs-how-conflict-in-one-african-country-drives-up-debt-for-its-neighbours\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Refugees, Lost Trade and Security Costs &#8211; How Conflict in One African Country Drives Up Debt for Its Neighbours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Conflicts in Africa vary in scope and intensity. They range from large-scale civil wars to territorial disputes, localised insurgencies, inter-communal violence, political instability, armed conflict and terrorism. The continent has earned the reputation of being the <a href=\"https:\/\/scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za\/pub\/article\/view\/1102\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">world&#8217;s bloodiest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">These conflicts can be felt across country borders. I am an <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=COrtlBYAAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;google_abuse=GOOGLE_ABUSE_EXEMPTION%3DID%3De7cdfd0a580e0b80:TM%3D1786084756:C%3Dr:IP%3D154.161.180.133-:S%3DSp4lLQerW-lTeCdsdIvLIQA%3B+path%3D\/%3B+domain%3Dgoogle.com%3B+expires%3DFri,+07-Aug-2026+09:39:16+GMT\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">economist<\/a> whose research has focused on inclusive growth, debt sustainability, geopolitical risk, economic policy and climate-related uncertainties. In a <a...<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608140062.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conflicts in Africa vary in scope and intensity. They range from large-scale civil wars to territorial disputes, localised insurgencies, inter-communal violence, political instability, armed conflict and terrorism. The continent has earned the reputation of being the world&#8217;s bloodiest. These conflicts can be felt across country borders. I am an economist whose research has focused on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,4380,2444,11509,5042,6861,12760,7408,13724,257,1219,4586,254,4708,1613,5979],"class_list":["post-241098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-conflict","tag-costs","tag-country","tag-debt","tag-drives","tag-lost","tag-neighbours","tag-news","tag-refugees","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}