Sudan to ask donors for $6b at Oslo meeting

Sudan will ask donor nations meeting in Norway this week for $6 billion over the next three years to help rebuild Africa's largest nation after decades of civil wars, a government report said.

The Sudan consortium has met yearly since a 2005 north-south peace deal ended Africa's longest civil war. It is the stage for richer nations to show their support for maintaining peace in Sudan by pledging development funds.

But south Sudan's semi-autonomous government says it has received far less than donors pledged in the past, while funds earmarked for development have been diverted to aid for Darfur, where civil war erupted five years ago.