Sudan Prime Minister visits Khartoum for first time since taking office in May

Sudan's Prime Minister Kamil Idris on Saturday pledged to rebuild Khartoum, ravaged by more than two years of war, as he made his first visit to the capital since assuming office in May. Touring Khartoum's destroyed infrastructure earlier, the new premier outlined mass repair projects in anticipation of the return of at least some of the over 3.5 million people who fled the violence.

"Khartoum will return as a proud national capital," Idris said, according to Sudan's state news agency. On a visit to Sudan's largest oil refinery, the Al-Jaili plant, just north of Khartoum, Idris promised that "national institutions will come back even better than they were before".

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