Sudanese Finance Minister Dr. Jibril Ibrahim chaired a meeting of the Macroeconomic Framework Committee at the ministry’s headquarters in Khartoum. The committee met to prepare next year’s budget, identified in the title as the 2027 budget. The meeting included the Central Bank of Sudan governor, the acting undersecretary of the Ministry of Finance, representatives of the Central Bank and the Central Bureau of Statistics, and directors and representatives of relevant ministry departments. A related headline said the finance minister revealed reasons for the Sudanese pound’s decline and the dollar’s rise.