Khartoum- The war caused great destruction in the Sudan economy, especially in the factories and government and private companies sector, and some factories and companies have turned into a warfard in which the Rapid Support Forces are holed up.
This led to the destruction of a number of factories, the displacement of their workers, the destruction of their equipment, the theft of their money, and the stopping of it completely, and some of them turned into rubble in need of years and millions of dollars to restart them again.
From factories to war arenas
Vital factories in central Sudan have turned into battles arenas and were completely destroyed, including the “Jiyad” factory in the city of Al -Kamilin, Al -Jazeera, 45 km south of the capital, Khartoum, which the Rapid Support Forces were fortified over a period He was able to recover only a few weeks ago.
The Sennar Sugar Factory in Sennar, southeast of the country, is not far from the Giad factory. The Rapid Support Forces turned it into a military base in December 2023, and it was launched from it to launch attacks on the army sites in Sennar and the Blue Nile before the army regained it a month and a half ago The month, which was repeated in the cotton gins in the state of the island, and 6 bars were destroyed by the war.
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Huge losses
Al -Jazeera Net camera monitored significant losses that affected Sennar Sugar Factory in southeast .
Hassan Al -Rasoul, Director of Financial and Administrative Affairs at Sennar Sugar Factory, says that the Rapid Support Forces looted the factory equipment, and displaced its employees, adding that the losses in the factory exceeded 15 million dollars, as well as the displacement of more than 12 thousand workers and employees during a period of a year.
It is noteworthy that the Sennar sugar factory was producing between 90 to 110 thousand tons of sugar annually, and Sudan relies heavily on the provision of this commodity, and a number of towns and villages were surrounded by the villages of the sugar factory, as it provides services and care and occupies its children.
The largest industrial edifice
The Jiyad Industrial Group is a Sudanese industrial edifice that relies on it in large and small industries founded in 1993 in the city of Al -Kamilin, Al -Jazeera, located 45 km from the capital, Khartoum.
Gyad factory produces cars, trucks, vehicles with small engines, motorcycles, manufacture of steel wires, aluminum, copper, cables, agricultural equipment, paints and paint as well as the medical equipment and metal tubes industry.
Giad was designed in the form of an integrated industrial city, but the war turned it into a situation similar to the cick after stealing its equipment and contents, including newly -made cars.
The Al -Jazeera camera monitored the destruction of the factory’s infrastructure, stealing its contents and looting, as well as the smashing and stealing of making machines, which means that the state lost its most important economic pillars that it relied heavily on economic affairs.
A source in the Giad Industrial Group for Al -Jazeera Net says that the preliminary statistics of losses exceeded 50 million dollars, and that they are doing their best to restart Giad again in the coming period.
Cotton
The destruction was great in the economic sector in the states of Al -Jazeera and Sennar, and according to sources that spoke to Al -Jazeera Net, more than 6 cotton gins in the state of Al -Jazeera were destroyed by the war, including a gunman in the cities of Hajj Abdullah Wood Madani in the center of the country.
Among these grooves are the lifetime of cotton, as the island’s camera monitored the destruction of the shops and looted its contents, as well as burning more than 10,000 units of cotton that were intended for export inside the factory and looting mechanisms such as cotton transport vehicles from the factory to the eastern Port Sudan ports for export.
The destruction also extended to the offices of the age of life and looting their contents, as well as the displacement of thousands of workers and employees in the grocer.
Industrial sector losses
Economist Dr. Haitham Mohamed Fathi told Al -Jazeera Net that the industrial sector in Sudan is the most affected in the April 2023 war, adding that 85% of the sector was destroyed by the war.
He added that there are industrial cities such as “Giad” and the warfare factories destroyed by war, and Fathi said that the industries that were damaged were contributing to the daily life of the Sudanese people, such as sugar factories, cotton and medicines.
Fathi explained that the Rapid Support Forces stole the stock and mechanisms of a number of factories, which affects the future of the industry in Sudan, as the factories will start from the point zero to re -establish it.
