According to available information from the Ministry of Finance and National Economy (MoFNE), Central Bank of Sudan (CBoS), and the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), the preliminary economic indicators in Sudan for the first quarter of 2014 show an improvement relative to the last year.1 The inflation rate fell from 41.9 percent at the end of December 2013 to 35.7 percent at the end of March 2014. Exports in the 1st quarter of 2014 increased by an estimated 14 percent compared to the same period in 2013 while import growth slowed sharply to 0.5 percent from 14 percent in the same period in 2012.