PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has announced the cancellation of Sudan’s $5 billion debt to France in an effort to support the country’s transitional leadership and help its crippled economy recovering . Macron hosted a Paris conference gathering African leaders and international creditors, in the presence Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, head of Sudan’s ruling sovereign council and Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok. The conference aimed at marking Sudan’s reintegration into the international community after three decades of isolation. A popular uprising in the African nation led to the military’s overthrow of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir in 2019.
